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15-letter words containing i, n, e, r, t, a

  • antiretrovirals — Plural form of antiretroviral.
  • antisegregation — opposed to or acting against segregration
  • antitheoretical — opposed to or contradicting a theory
  • antituberculous — (medicine) Acting to combat or counteract tuberculosis.
  • 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.
  • appeal tribunal — An appeal tribunal is a special court or committee that is formed to reconsider a decision made by another court or committee.
  • apprentice work — work done when young and a novice
  • apprenticeships — Plural form of apprenticeship.
  • 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.
  • argumentatively — fond of or given to argument and dispute; disputatious; contentious: The law students were an unusually argumentative group.
  • aristotelianism — a philosophical tradition based on the wide-ranging belief system of Aristotle
  • arithmetic mean — an average value of a set of integers, terms, or quantities, expressed as their sum divided by their number
  • 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.
  • arthur brisbane — Arthur, 1864–1936, U.S. journalist.
  • artificial gene — a duplicate gene synthesized in the laboratory by combining nucleotides in a sequence characteristic of the copied gene.
  • artificialness' — made by human skill; produced by humans (opposed to natural): artificial flowers.
  • artillery plant — any of various tropical urticaceous plants of the genus Pilea, such as P. microphylla, all having stamens that discharge their pollen explosively
  • asset-stripping — If a person or company is involved in asset-stripping, they buy companies cheaply, sell off their assets to make a profit, and then close the companies down.
  • at first glance — If you say that something is true or seems to be true at first glance, you mean that it seems to be true when you first see it or think about it, but that your first impression may be wrong.
  • at right angles — If two things are at right angles, they are situated so that they form an angle of 90° where they touch each other. You can also say that one thing is at right angles to another.
  • 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.
  • atlantic ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • atlantic-ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • atrabiliousness — The state or quality of being characterized by melancholy or glumness.
  • audience rating — a figure based on statistical sampling indicating what proportion of the total listening and viewing audience tune in to a specific programme or network
  • auditor general — (in Canada) a federal official responsible for auditing government departments and making an annual report
  • australian pine — casuarina
  • 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 plastering — the introduction of partitions of lath and plaster between the inner and outer surfaces of a stud wall in order to improve the insulating properties of the wall.
  • 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 theory — the theory attributing the authorship of Shakespeare's plays to Francis Bacon.
  • bandpass filter — A bandpass filter is a filter designed to pass all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • bandstop filter — A bandstop filter is a filter designed to eliminate all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • bangtail muster — a roundup of cattle to be counted, each one having the hairs on its tail docked as it is counted
  • bar examination — a written examination to determine if one is qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction.
  • bare infinitive — an infinitive verb form without to, used with certain auxiliary verbs , as in I must go. All I did was ask. We might win.
  • bargain counter — a store counter on which goods are displayed for sale at reduced prices
  • barium titanate — a crystalline ceramic used in capacitors and piezoelectric devices. Formula: BaTiO3
  • barycentrically — In a barycentric manner.
  • battery farming — the activity of using batteries for raising poultry
  • batting average — in baseball, a figure expressing the average batting efficiency of a player or team, figured by dividing the number of base hits by the number of official at-bats
  • 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
  • bedtime reading — a book, magazine etc read at bedtime
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