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15-letter words containing d, n, a, s

  • object distance — the distance between the lens of a camera and an object being photographed.
  • obsidian dating — a method of dating obsidian artifacts or debitage by calculating how long it has taken to produce a given thickness of a hydration layer within such matter.
  • obsidional coin — siege piece.
  • odontostomatous — having jaws that resemble teeth
  • off one's guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
  • off one's hands — for which one is no longer responsible
  • oil-based paint — any paint made with a drying oil or solvent such as linseed
  • old age pension — An old age pension is a regular amount of money that people receive from the government when they have retired from work.
  • old clothes man — a person who deals in second-hand clothes
  • old man's beard — fringe tree.
  • old-man's-beard — fringe tree.
  • old-man-the-sea — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments) an old man who clung to the shoulders of Sindbad the Sailor for many days and nights.
  • oligohydramnios — (medicine) A deficit of amniotic fluid in the amniotic sac, causing distinctive deformations of the foetus.
  • on the decrease — decreasing
  • one-dimensional — having one dimension only.
  • one-night stand — a single performance in one locale, as by a touring theatrical company, before moving on to the next engagement.
  • onward progress — progress that advances or improves (a situation, etc)
  • open admissions — a policy of admitting applicants to an institution, especially a university, regardless of previous academic record or grades.
  • operationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalise.
  • opinionatedness — The state or condition of being opinionated.
  • orangeman's day — the 12th of July, celebrated by Protestants in Northern Ireland to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne (1690)
  • orangemen's day — July 12, an annual celebration in Northern Ireland and certain cities having a large Irish section, especially Liverpool, to mark both the victory of William III over James II at the Battle of the Boyne, July 1, 1690, and the Battle of Augbrim, July 12, 1690.
  • ordinal numbers — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
  • ordinary seaman — a seaman insufficiently skilled to be classified as an able-bodied seaman. Abbreviation: O.D., O.S., o.s.
  • ordinary shares — British. a share of common stock.
  • ordnance survey — mapmaking agency
  • organic disease — a disease in which there is a structural alteration (opposed to functional disease).
  • organized chaos — a complex situation or process that appears chaotic while having enough order to achieve progress or goals
  • outdoorsmanship — a person devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities, as hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping.
  • outstandingness — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
  • over one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • overcompensated — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • overforwardness — the quality of being too familiar
  • oxidation state — the state of an element or ion in a compound with regard to the electrons gained or lost by the element or ion in the reaction that formed the compound, expressed as a positive or negative number indicating the ionic charge of the element or ion.
  • pac-man defense — a defensive tactic against a hostile takeover in which the targeted company makes its own bid to take over the hostile firm.
  • pacific islands — a U.S. trust territory in the Pacific Ocean, comprising the Mariana, Marshall, and Caroline Islands: approved by the United Nations 1947; since 1976 constituents of the trusteeship have established or moved toward self-government. 717 sq. mi. (1857 sq. km).
  • packing density — a measure of the amount of data that can be held by unit length of a storage medium, such as magnetic tape
  • paid-in surplus — surplus paid in by purchasers of stock certificates sold at a premium.
  • palais de danse — a dance hall
  • panhandle state — West Virginia (used as a nickname).
  • panzer division — an armored division of the German army, especially in World War II, consisting chiefly of tanks and organized for making rapid attacks.
  • paphian goddess — Aphrodite, worshiped in Cyprus as the goddess of sexual love.
  • paracel islands — a group of uninhabited islets and reefs in the N South China Sea, the subject of territorial claims by China and Vietnam
  • pars intermedia — a small, somewhat cherry-shaped double structure attached by a stalk to the base of the brain and constituting the master endocrine gland affecting all hormonal functions in the body, consisting of an anterior region ((anterior pituitary) or (adenohypophysis)) that develops embryonically from the roof of the mouth and that secretes growth hormone, LH, FSH, ACTH, TSH, and MSH, a posterior region ((posterior pituitary) or (neurohypophysis)) that develops from the back of the forebrain and that secretes the hormones vasopressin and oxytocin, and an intermediate part (pars intermedia) derived from the anterior region but joined to the posterior region, that secretes the hormone MSH in lower vertebrates.
  • partners---desk — a desk constructed so that two people may work at it face-to-face, as one having a kneehole and drawers on two fronts.
  • pay-and-display — denoting a car-parking system in which a motorist buys a permit to park for a specified period from a coin-operated machine and displays the permit on or near the windscreen of his or her car so that it can be seen by a parking attendant
  • pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
  • pedestrian mall — A pedestrian mall is the same as a pedestrian precinct.
  • penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
  • pepper-and-salt — composed of a fine mixture of black with white: pepper-and-salt hair.
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