15-letter words containing h, o, l, c, n, e
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- nonmetaphorical — not metaphorical; literal
- nucleophilicity — (uncountable) The condition of being nucleophilic.
- nucleosynthesis — the formation of new atomic nuclei by nuclear reactions, thought to occur in the interiors of stars and in the early stages of development of the universe.
- nucleosynthetic — Of or pertaining to nucleosynthesis.
- old clothes man — a person who deals in second-hand clothes
- once in a while — at one time in the past; formerly: I was a farmer once; a once powerful nation.
- orchestrational — Of or pertaining to orchestration.
- organochlorines — Plural form of organochlorine.
- out in the cold — having a relatively low temperature; having little or no warmth: cold water; a cold day.
- palaeoanthropic — relating to palaeoanthropology
- paleoencephalon — paleencephalon.
- paleolithic man — any of the prehistoric populations of humans, as the Cro-Magnon, living in the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs.
- perchloroethane — hexachloroethane.
- pheasant coucal — a brown and black, red-eyed Australian bird, Centropus phasianinus, with a pheasantlike tail.
- phenomenalistic — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
- phenylketonuric — an inherited disease due to faulty metabolism of phenylalanine, characterized by phenylketones in the urine and usually first noted by signs of mental retardation in infancy.
- phloem necrosis — a disease of the American elm caused by a mycoplasmalike organism, characterized by yellowing and necrosis of the foliage and yellowish-brown discoloration of the phloem.
- photoelectronic — relating to electronic effects or devices affected by light
- photomechanical — noting or pertaining to any of various processes for printing from plates or surfaces prepared by the aid of photography.
- phrenologically — in a manner relating to phrenology
- pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
- plain chocolate — dark eating chocolate
- plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
- polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
- polychloroprene — a chloroprene polymer
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- push one's luck — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- pyrotechnically — in a pyrotechnical manner
- quiche lorraine — a quiche containing bits of bacon or ham and often cheese.
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- religion of chi — /ki:/ [Case Western Reserve University] Yet another hackish parody religion (see also Church of the SubGenius, Discordianism). In the mid-70s, the canonical "Introduction to Programming" courses at CWRU were taught in ALGOL, and student exercises were punched on cards and run on a Univac 1108 system using a homebrew operating system named CHI. The religion had no doctrines and but one ritual: whenever the worshipper noted that a digital clock read 11:08, he or she would recite the phrase "It is 11:08; ABS, ALPHABETIC, ARCSIN, ARCCOS, ARCTAN." The last five words were the first five functions in the appropriate chapter of the ALGOL manual; note the special pronunciations /obz/ and /ark'sin/ rather than the more common /ahbz/ and /ark'si:n/. Using an alarm clock to warn of 11:08's arrival was considered harmful.
- rhombencephalon — the hindbrain.
- rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
- rocket launcher — a tube attached to a weapon for the launching of rockets.
- rolling kitchen — a mobile kitchen used for feeding troops outdoors.
- ronne ice shelf — an ice barrier in Antarctica, in SW Weddell Sea, bordered by Ellsworth Land on the NW and Berkner Island on the E.
- round-the-clock — around-the-clock.