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15-letter words containing l, a, s, c

  • a false economy — If you describe an attempt to save money as a false economy, you mean that you have not saved any money as you will have to spend a lot more later.
  • acanthus family — the plant family Acanthaceae, typified by tropical herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple opposite leaves, clusters of tubular bracted flowers, and seeds sometimes dispersed by exploding fruit, including the acanthus, caricature, and shrimp plant.
  • accelerationist — a person, especially an economist, who advocates or promotes the acceleration principle.
  • accessibilities — Plural form of accessibility.
  • accessible room — An accessible room is a room that is easy for disabled people to enter and leave.
  • acclimatisation — Alternative spelling of acclimatization.
  • accomplishments — Plural form of accomplishment.
  • accountableness — the condition of being answerable or accountable
  • acetylsalicylic — as in acetylsalicylic acid, aspirin
  • achilles reflex — ankle jerk.
  • achilles tendon — Your Achilles tendon or your Achilles is the tendon inside the back of your leg just above your heel.
  • achlorophyllous — containing no chlorophyll.
  • achromatic lens — a system of two or more lenses that is substantially free from chromatic aberration and in which the lenses are made of different substances so that the focal length of the system is the same for two or three wavelengths of light.
  • acknowledgments — a section of text containing an author’s statement acknowledging his or her use of the works of other authors and thanking the people who have helped him or her, usually printed at the front of a book
  • acoustical tile — tile made in various sizes and textures from soft, usually fibrous, sound-absorbing material, as wood, cork, or metal, and typically applied to ceilings or walls.
  • acoustoelectric — electroacoustic.
  • adjacent angles — two angles that have the same vertex and a side in common
  • adrenalectomies — Plural form of adrenalectomy.
  • agranulocytosis — a serious and sometimes fatal illness characterized by a marked reduction of leucocytes, usually caused by hypersensitivity to certain drugs
  • agriculturalist — An agriculturalist is someone who is an expert on agriculture and who advises farmers.
  • agulhas current — a fast, warm ocean current flowing southwest along the SE coast of Africa
  • airmail sticker — a sticker that is put on airmail letters to make sure they are not sent by surface mail
  • alaska purchase — purchase of the territory of Alaska by the U.S. from Russia in 1867 for $7,200,000. Compare Seward's Folly.
  • albany congress — a meeting of delegates from seven American colonies, held in 1754 at Albany, New York, at which Benjamin Franklin proposed a plan (Albany Plan of Union) for unifying the colonies.
  • all-risk policy — An all-risk policy is an insurance policy that covers all loss or damage however it is caused, apart from any stated exceptions.
  • allegoricalness — the quality of being allegorical
  • allelochemicals — Plural form of allelochemical.
  • allemande sauce — a velouté thickened and enriched with egg yolk.
  • alpha-cellulose — a refined, insoluble form of cellulose derived from cotton or wood pulp, and used in manufacturing
  • alsace-lorraine — an area of NE France, comprising the modern regions of Alsace and Lorraine: under German rule 1871–1919 and 1940–44. Area: 14 522 sq km (5607 sq miles)
  • aluminosilicate — a silicate in which some of the silicon in the tetrahedral unit SiO4 has been replaced by aluminium
  • amaryllidaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Amaryllidaceae, a family of widely cultivated flowering plants having bulbs and including the amaryllis, snowdrop, narcissus, and daffodil
  • ambisyllabicity — (poetry) The property of a consonant being analysed as acting simultaneously as the coda of one syllable and the onset of the following syllable.
  • ambrose channel — a ship channel at the entrance to New York harbor, near Sandy Hook. 7½ miles (12 km) long.
  • ambulance nurse — a nurse who works as part of an ambulance crew
  • americanologist — a foreign expert or specialist in American cultural or political matters: a leading Americanologist in the Kremlin.
  • amery ice shelf — an ice barrier in Antarctica, in the SW Indian Ocean, bordered by Enderby Land on the N and American Highland on the W.
  • aminoglycosides — Plural form of aminoglycoside.
  • anaesthetically — by means of an anaesthetic
  • analogous color — Art. any one of a group of related colors that are near each other on the color wheel, a circular chart that shows gradations of color: Red, orange, and yellow are analogous colors. Compare complementary color (def 1a).
  • anamorphic lens — a component in the optical system of a film projector for converting standard 35mm film images into wide-screen format
  • ancylostomiasis — infestation of the human intestine with blood-sucking hookworms, causing progressive anaemia
  • aneroid capsule — a box or chamber of thin metal, partially exhausted of air, used in the aneroid barometer and pressure altimeter.
  • anisotropically — Physics. of unequal physical properties along different axes. Compare isotropic (def 1).
  • annular eclipse — an eclipse of the sun in which the moon does not cover the entire disc of the sun, so that a ring of sunlight surrounds the shadow of the moon
  • anomalistically — In an anomalistic manner; with irregularity.
  • antenatal class — a class that women attend when they are pregnant to learn how to stay healthy, cope with the birth, look after the newborn baby etc
  • anti-capitalism — an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, especially as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth.
  • anti-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • anti-radicalism — the holding or following of radical or extreme views or principles.

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