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15-letter words containing e, n, t, i, o

  • antimony glance — stibnite
  • antimony yellow — a poisonous pigment used in painting and enameling, consisting chiefly of lead antimoniate and characterized by its fugitive yellow color, rapid drying rate, and strong film-forming properties.
  • antiprogressive — opposed to or acting against progression in society
  • antiremonstrant — the party that opposed the Remonstrants
  • antiretrovirals — Plural form of antiretroviral.
  • antisegregation — opposed to or acting against segregration
  • 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.
  • apolipoproteins — Plural form of apolipoprotein.
  • apostolicalness — The state or quality of being apostolical.
  • apple macintosh — Macintosh
  • apprentice work — work done when young and a novice
  • appropriateness — suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.: an appropriate example; an appropriate dress.
  • approximateness — The quality of being approximate.
  • archaeobotanist — A person engaged in archaeobotany.
  • architectonical — Alternative form of architectonic.
  • aristotelianism — a philosophical tradition based on the wide-ranging belief system of Aristotle
  • arms inspection — the official checking of a country's weapons and other military equipment, usually to check that international agreements have been respected
  • arrondissements — Plural form of arrondissement.
  • arterialization — to convert (venous blood) into arterial blood by the action of oxygen in the lungs.
  • 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 point of — very close to; on the verge of
  • atrabiliousness — The state or quality of being characterized by melancholy or glumness.
  • audio equipment — electrical devices used to play or record sound
  • auditor general — (in Canada) a federal official responsible for auditing government departments and making an annual report
  • 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
  • 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.
  • bag on the side — An extension to an established hack that is supposed to add some functionality to the original. Usually derogatory, implying that the original was being overextended and should have been thrown away, and the new product is ugly, inelegant, or bloated. Also "to hang a bag on the side [of]". "C++? That's just a bag on the side of C." "They want me to hang a bag on the side of the accounting system."
  • ballpoint (pen) — a pen having, instead of a point, a small ball bearing that picks up its ink by rolling against an interior ink reservoir
  • bandstop filter — A bandstop filter is a filter designed to eliminate all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • bar examination — a written examination to determine if one is qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction.
  • bargain counter — a store counter on which goods are displayed for sale at reduced prices
  • 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.
  • battle stations — the places to which soldiers, sailors, warships, etc. are assigned for a battle or an emergency
  • bayonet fitting — a type of fastening in which a cylindrical member is inserted into a socket against spring pressure and turned so that pins on its side engage in slots in the socket
  • be of two minds — to be undecided or irresolute
  • be on the skids — to be on the decline or downgrade; meet with failure
  • be raring to go — If you say that you are raring to go, you mean that you are very eager to start doing something.
  • beat generation — members of the generation that came to maturity in the 1950s, whose rejection of the social and political systems of the West was expressed through contempt for regular work, possessions, traditional dress, etc, and espousal of anarchism, communal living, drugs, etc
  • beef wellington — a lightly roasted beef fillet covered with pâté de foie gras, wrapped in pastry, and then baked
  • before the wind — with the wind coming from astern
  • bello horizonte — a city in SE Brazil.
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