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

  • anticholinergic — blocking nerve impulses through the parasympathetic nerves
  • anticipointment — (rare) The state of mind resulting from excitedly anticipating a strongly promoted product, event, film, etc, and then being disappointed when it fails to meet the expectations generated by this promotion.
  • anticoincidence — of or relating to an electronic circuit that produces an output pulse if one but not both of its input terminals receives a pulse within a specified interval of time
  • anticommutative — (of a binary operation) having the property that one term operating on a second is equal to the negative of the second operating on the first, as ab = −ba.
  • anticompetitive — (in business) discouraging competition
  • antieducational — opposing the provision of knowledge
  • antiforeclosure — opposed to the process of foreclosure
  • antihemorrhagic — That stops or reduces hemorrhage.
  • antilock brakes — brakes fitted to some road vehicles that prevent skidding and improve control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
  • antimony glance — stibnite
  • antispeculation — opposed to or acting against excessive oil speculation
  • antitheoretical — opposed to or contradicting a theory
  • antituberculous — (medicine) Acting to combat or counteract tuberculosis.
  • antivivisection — opposed to the act or practice or performing experiments on living animals, involving cutting into or dissecting the body
  • aortic stenosis — abnormal narrowing of the aorta, especially of its orifice, usually as a result of rheumatic fever or embryologic anomalies.
  • apartment block — building: flats, apartments
  • apostolicalness — The state or quality of being apostolical.
  • apple macintosh — Macintosh
  • apprentice work — work done when young and a novice
  • archaeastronomy — (astronomy, archaeology) The historical, especially archeological, study of astronomy; the study of the astronomical systems and methods of ancient cultures often embracing the astrology and cosmology of the past.
  • archaeobotanist — A person engaged in archaeobotany.
  • archeoastronomy — the branch of archaeology that deals with the apparent use by prehistoric civilizations of astronomical techniques to establish the seasons or the cycle of the year, especially as evidenced in the construction of megaliths and other ritual structures.
  • architectonical — Alternative form of architectonic.
  • armour-piercing — capable of penetrating armour plate
  • arms inspection — the official checking of a country's weapons and other military equipment, usually to check that international agreements have been respected
  • as best one can — If someone does something as best they can, they do it as well as they can, although it is very difficult.
  • asbestos cement — a compound of asbestos fiber and Portland cement formerly used for various nonstructural building purposes.
  • ascending colon — the first portion of the colon, beginning at the cecum in the lower right abdominal cavity and continuing upward along the right posterior abdominal wall to approximately the lower ribs.
  • at short notice — Notice is used in expressions such as 'at short notice', 'at a moment's notice' or 'at twenty-four hours' notice', to indicate that something can or must be done within a short period of time.
  • at the controls — If someone is at the controls of a machine or other piece of equipment, they are operating it.
  • audio frequency — a frequency in the range 20 hertz to 20 000 hertz. A sound wave of this frequency would be audible to the human ear
  • audio recording — an electronic recording of sound
  • audubon society — a North American organization devoted to the conservancy of birds
  • authentications — Plural form of authentication.
  • autocorrelation — the condition occurring when successive items in a series are correlated so that their covariance is not zero and they are not independent
  • autofluorescent — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting autofluorescence.
  • back projection — a method of projecting pictures onto a translucent screen so that they are viewed from the opposite side, used esp in films to create the illusion that the actors in the foreground are moving
  • baconian method — induction (def 4a).
  • baconian theory — the theory attributing the authorship of Shakespeare's plays to Francis Bacon.
  • balance control — a state of equilibrium or equipoise; equal distribution of weight, amount, etc.
  • ballroom dancer — a person who participates in ballroom dancing
  • barcelona chair — an armless, padded leather chair on a steel frame shaped like a curved X: Barcelona is a trademark for this chair
  • bargain counter — a store counter on which goods are displayed for sale at reduced prices
  • barn conversion — the adaptation of a farm barn into a building serving a different use, such as a house or commercial premises
  • base technology — (company)   The company which developed and distributes Liana. E-mail: Jack Krupansky <[email protected]> (owner). Address: Base Technology, Attn: Jack Krupansky, 1500 Mass. Ave. NW #114 Washington, DC 2005, USA. 800-786-9505 Telephone: +1 800 876 9505.
  • basic education — (in India) education in which all teaching is correlated with the learning of a craft
  • bathing costume — A bathing costume is a piece of clothing that is worn for swimming, especially by women and girls.
  • beach goldenrod — a composite plant, Solidago sempervirens, of eastern and southern North America, having a thick stem and large, branched, one-sided terminal clusters of yellow flowers, flourishing on sea beaches or salt marshes.
  • bear comparison — to be sufficiently similar in class or range to be compared with (something else), esp favourably
  • ben day process — a method of adding texture, shading, or detail to line drawings by overlaying a transparent sheet of dots or any other pattern during platemaking
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