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15-letter words containing e, c, h, o, n

  • lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
  • lissencephalous — having the cephalic disorder of a lack of developed brain folds
  • longhorn cattle — cattle of a long-horned breed, usually red or variegated, formerly common in SW US
  • loose chippings — pieces of gravel spread on the top of tarmac that fail to stick to it
  • lord chancellor — the highest judicial officer of the British crown: law adviser of the ministry, keeper of the great seal, presiding officer in the House of Lords, etc.
  • luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
  • lymphadenectomy — the excision of one or more lymph nodes, usually as a procedure in the surgical removal or destruction of a cancer.
  • lymphocytopenia — (pathology) An abnormally low level of lymphocytes in the blood.
  • lzh compression — (algorithm)   (After Lempel-Ziv and Haruyasu, the inventors) A compression algorithm derived from the LZSS scheme with a sliding window and additional compression applied to the output of the LZSS compressor by dynamic Huffman coding.
  • macaroni cheese — Macaroni cheese is a dish made from macaroni and cheese sauce.
  • mannheim school — a group of musicians of the mid-18th century in Mannheim, Germany, notable for developing a style of orchestral composition and performance directly antecedent to and influential on the classical style of Haydn and Mozart.
  • marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
  • mechanochemical — involving the conversion of chemical energy into mechanical energy
  • mechanomorphism — the doctrine that the universe is fully explicable in mechanistic terms.
  • mechanoreceptor — any of the sense organs that respond to vibration, stretching, pressure, or other mechanical stimuli.
  • mechlorethamine — a nitrogen mustard, C 5 H 1 1 Cl 2 N, used in combination with other drugs in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease and certain other cancers.
  • melancholically — disposed to or affected with melancholy; gloomy.
  • mesh connection — (in a polyphase system) an arrangement in which the end of each phase is connected to the beginning of the next, forming a ring, each junction being connected to a terminal
  • methylcobalamin — A cobalamin used to treat neuropathies.
  • microtechnology — technology that uses microelectronics
  • mischievousness — maliciously or playfully annoying.
  • miscomprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of miscomprehend.
  • monchengladbach — a city in W North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany.
  • monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
  • monochlamydeous — (of a flower) having a perianth of one whorl of members; not having a separate calyx and corolla
  • monosaccharides — Plural form of monosaccharide.
  • morphine addict — a person who is addicted to the drug morphine
  • morphophonemics — Also called morphonology, morphophonology. the study of the relations between morphemes and their phonological realizations, components, or mappings.
  • mourners' bench — a front row of seats at a revival meeting, for those who are to profess penitence
  • natal horoscope — the horoscope based on an individual's birth.
  • nathaniel bacon — Francis (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans) 1561–1626, English essayist, philosopher, and statesman.
  • nephrosclerosis — (pathology) arteriosclerosis of the renal arteries.
  • netzahualcoyotl — a city in S central Mexico, in the state of Mexico.
  • neurochemically — In a neurochemical manner or context.
  • neuropathically — In a neuropathic way.
  • neuropathologic — Of or pertaining to neuropathology.
  • neuropsychiatry — the branch of medicine dealing with diseases involving the mind and nervous system.
  • neuropsychology — The study of the relationship between behavior, emotion, and cognition on the one hand, and brain function on the other.
  • new archaeology — a reorientation of archaeology, dating from the 1960s, that emphasizes an explicitly scientific, problem-oriented, deductive approach to research.
  • new port richey — a town in central Florida.
  • new york school — a loosely associated group of American and European artists and sculptors, especially abstract expressionist painters, active in and near New York City chiefly in the 1940s and 1950s.
  • nicholas ridley — Nicholas, c1500–55, English bishop, reformer, and martyr.
  • non-achievement — lack of achievement
  • non-handicapped — Sometimes Offensive. physically or mentally disabled.
  • non-mechanistic — of or relating to the theory of mechanism or to mechanists.
  • nonarchitecture — a building not designed according to accepted modes of architecture
  • noncreditworthy — Not creditworthy.
  • nonexchangeable — capable of being exchanged.
  • nonhierarchical — Classified or arranged so that a group or person has the same authority as everyone else; not hierarchical.
  • nonmathematical — of, relating to, or of the nature of mathematics: mathematical truth.
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