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15-letter words containing l, e, c, t

  • anti-commercial — of, relating to, or characteristic of commerce.
  • anti-republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
  • anti-technology — the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.
  • anticholesterol — an agent which acts against cholesterol, either as an antibody produced naturally by many mammals or in the form of a drug
  • anticholinergic — blocking nerve impulses through the parasympathetic nerves
  • anticlericalism — opposed to the influence and activities of the clergy or the church in secular or public affairs.
  • antieducational — opposing the provision of knowledge
  • antiforeclosure — opposed to the process of foreclosure
  • antilock brakes — brakes fitted to some road vehicles that prevent skidding and improve control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
  • antimony glance — stibnite
  • antiperistaltic — reversed peristaltic action of the intestines, by which their contents are carried upward.
  • antispeculation — opposed to or acting against excessive oil speculation
  • antispeculative — opposed to or acting against speculation
  • antitheoretical — opposed to or contradicting a theory
  • antituberculous — (medicine) Acting to combat or counteract tuberculosis.
  • apartment block — building: flats, apartments
  • apical meristem — meristem at the apex of a root or shoot.
  • aplastic anemia — a form of anemia resulting from a failure of the bone marrow to produce adequate quantities of the essential blood components, including leukocytes and platelets
  • apollo computer — (company)   A company making workstations often used for CAD. From 1980 to 1987, Apollo were the largest manufacturer of network workstations. Apollo workstations ran Aegis, a proprietary operating system with a Posix-compliant Unix alternative frontend. Apollo's networking was particularly elegant, among the first to allow demand paging over the network, and allowing a degree of network transparency and low sysadmin-to-machine ratio that is still unmatched. Apollo's largest customers were Mentor Graphics (electronic design), GM, Ford, Chrysler, and Boeing (mechanical design). Apollo was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 1989, and gradually closed down over the period 1990-1997.
  • apostle pitcher — a stoneware pitcher decorated in relief with figures of the apostles.
  • apostles' creed — a concise statement of Christian beliefs dating from about 500 ad, traditionally ascribed to the Apostles
  • apostolicalness — The state or quality of being apostolical.
  • appalachian tea — any of various plants, as withe rod, whose leaves were used locally for tea in pioneer times
  • appellate court — In the United States, an appellate court is a special court where people who have been convicted of a crime can appeal against their conviction.
  • apple macintosh — Macintosh
  • applesoft basic — (language)   A version of BASIC for Apple computers.
  • architectonical — Alternative form of architectonic.
  • architecturally — of or relating to architecture: architectural metals.
  • articles of war — the disciplinary and legal procedures by which the naval and military forces of Great Britain were bound before the 19th century
  • artificial feel — a system, used in aircraft that have fully powered control surfaces, providing the pilot with simulated aerodynamic forces on the controls
  • artificial gene — a duplicate gene synthesized in the laboratory by combining nucleotides in a sequence characteristic of the copied gene.
  • artificial life — (algorithm, application)   (a-life) The study of synthetic systems which behave like natural living systems in some way. Artificial Life complements the traditional biological sciences concerned with the analysis of living organisms by attempting to create lifelike behaviours within computers and other artificial media. Artificial Life can contribute to theoretical biology by modelling forms of life other than those which exist in nature. It has applications in environmental and financial modelling and network communications. There are some interesting implementations of artificial life using strangely shaped blocks. A video, probably by the company Artificial Creatures who build insect-like robots in Cambridge, MA (USA), has several mechanical implementations of artificial life forms. See also evolutionary computing, Life.
  • artificialness' — made by human skill; produced by humans (opposed to natural): artificial flowers.
  • asiatic cholera — cholera (def 1).
  • 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 full stretch — If you are at full stretch, your arm is straight and extended as far as possible, usually because you are trying to reach something that is almost too far away.
  • at the controls — If someone is at the controls of a machine or other piece of equipment, they are operating it.
  • atherosclerosis — a degenerative disease of the arteries characterized by patchy thickening of the inner lining of the arterial walls, caused by deposits of fatty material; a form of arteriosclerosis
  • atherosclerotic — Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with atherosclerosis.
  • athletic sports — sports, esp track and field events, in which athleticism is required
  • atlantic ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • atlantic-ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • atmospherically — pertaining to, existing in, or consisting of the atmosphere: atmospheric vapors.
  • authenticatable — to establish as genuine.
  • autocorrelation — the condition occurring when successive items in a series are correlated so that their covariance is not zero and they are not independent
  • autocorrelative — Relating to autocorrelation.
  • autofluorescent — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting autofluorescence.
  • automatic rifle — a type of light machine gun capable of firing automatically or in single shots.
  • 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.
  • bacterial ghost — a bacterial cell that is emptied and filled artificially with another substance
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