15-letter words containing i, l, c, o
- over-analytical — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
- over-articulate — excessively articulate
- over-capitalise — to fix the total amount of securities of a corporation in excess of the limits set by law or by sound financial policy.
- over-complexity — the state or quality of being complex; intricacy: the complexity of urban life.
- over-compliance — the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
- over-cultivated — to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; till.
- over-particular — of or relating to a single or specific person, thing, group, class, occasion, etc., rather than to others or all; special rather than general: one's particular interests in books.
- over-publicized — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
- over-solicitous — too solicitous: oversolicitous concerning one's health.
- overapplication — excessive application
- overcapitalized — Simple past tense and past participle of overcapitalize.
- overcapitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcapitalize.
- overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
- overcontrolling — excessively controlling
- overcultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- oxygen cylinder — a metal cylinder containing oxygen under pressure
- oxytetracycline — a dull-yellow, crystalline antibiotic powder, C 2 2 H 2 4 N 2 O 9 , produced by Streptomyces rimosus, used chiefly in treating infections caused by streptococci, staphylococci, Gram-negative bacilli, rickettsiae, and certain protozoans and viruses.
- package holiday — a holiday arranged by a travel company in which your travel and accommodation are booked for you
- painter's colic — Pathology. lead poisoning causing intense intestinal pain.
- palaeoanthropic — relating to palaeoanthropology
- paleogeophysics — (used with a plural verb) inferred geophysical conditions or processes of designated periods of the geologic past.
- paleolithic man — any of the prehistoric populations of humans, as the Cro-Magnon, living in the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs.
- palindromically — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- palynologically — from a palynological point of view
- paraheliotropic — (of leaves) turning away from light; sun-avoiding
- parallel cousin — a cousin who is the child either of one's mother's sister or of one's father's brother.
- partial product — the result obtained when a number is multiplied by one digit of a multiplier
- participational — involving participation
- party political — Party political matters relate to political parties.
- passifloraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Passifloraceae, a tropical and subtropical family of climbing plants including the passionflowers: the flowers have five petals and threadlike parts forming a dense mass (corona) around the central disc
- patchwork quilt — cover sewn from patches of cloth
- pavel petrovich — Paul I (def 2).
- pectoral girdle — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the forelimbs.
- peculiar people — a small sect of faith healers founded in London in 1838, having no ministers or external organization
- pelargonic acid — a colorless, oily, water-immiscible liquid, C 9 H 1 8 O 2 , occurring as an ester in a volatile oil in species of pelargonium: used chiefly in organic synthesis and in the manufacture of lacquers and plastics.
- pellicle mirror — a fixed mirror in a single-lens reflex camera that reflects some of the light entering the lens to the ground-glass view screen while permitting most of the light to pass through to the film.
- perchloric acid — a colorless, syrupy hygroscopic liquid, HClO 4 , an acid of chlorine containing one more oxygen atom than chloric acid: used chiefly as a reagent in analytical chemistry.
- percussion lock — a gunlock on a firearm that fires by striking a percussion cap.
- percussion tool — a power driven tool which operates by striking rapid blows: the power may be electricity or compressed air
- perissosyllabic — (of a line of verse) containing more syllables than expected for the metre being used
- peroxysulphuric — as in peroxysulphuric acid
- pharmacological — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
- 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.
- philanthropical — of, pertaining to, engaged in, or characterized by philanthropy; benevolent: a philanthropic foundation.
- philosophically — of or relating to philosophy: philosophical studies.
- phlebosclerosis — sclerosis, or hardening, of the walls of veins.
- 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.
- phonogramically — in a phonogramic manner