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15-letter words containing l, e, o, m

  • incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
  • indomitableness — Quality of being indomitable.
  • inhomogeneously — lack of homogeneity.
  • intake manifold — a collection of tubes through which the fuel-air mixture flows from the carburetor or fuel injector to the intake valves of the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine.
  • integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
  • intermodulation — the production in an electrical device of frequencies that are the sums or differences of frequencies of different inputs or of their harmonics.
  • interparoxysmal — occurring in the period or periods between paroxysms.
  • intervalometers — Plural form of intervalometer.
  • irreconcilement — the quality or state of being unreconciled
  • irreformability — the state or condition of being irreformable
  • isoamyl acetate — a colorless liquid, C 7 H 14 O 2 , used in flavorings, perfumery, and as a solvent. Compare banana oil (def 1).
  • isolated camera — a television camera used to isolate a subject, part of a sports play, etc., for instant replay.
  • isoperimetrical — having equal perimeters
  • isothermal-line — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
  • jerusalem cross — a cross whose four arms are each capped with a crossbar and often with a small Greek cross centered in each quadrant.
  • jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
  • job enlargement — a widening of the range of tasks performed by an employee in order to provide variety in the activities undertaken
  • jukebox musical — a musical play or film that is based around a series of well-known popular songs
  • juxtaglomerular — (anatomy) Near, or adjoining a renal glomerulus.
  • kelmscott manor — a Tudor house near Lechlade in Oxfordshire: home (1871–96) of William Morris
  • kernmantel rope — a rope made of many straight nylon fibres within a plaited sheath; used for its tensile strength, freedom from twisting, and elasticity
  • kilovolt-ampere — an electrical unit, equal to 1000 volt-amperes. Abbreviation: kVA, kva.
  • l'istesso tempo — (of a musical passage or section following a change in time signature) at the same tempo as before.
  • lake miraflores — an artificial lake in Panama, in the S Canal Zone of the Panama Canal
  • lamino-alveolar — articulated with the blade of the tongue approaching the alveolar ridge.
  • lamp-post error — fencepost error
  • land of promise — Promised Land.
  • laptop computer — portable computer
  • largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • lateral moraine — a moraine formed at the side of a glacier.
  • latino-american — an American who is of Latin-American or Spanish origin
  • law of the mean — the theorem that for a function continuous on a closed interval and differentiable on the corresponding open interval, there is a point in the interval such that the difference in functional values at the endpoints is equal to the derivative evaluated at the particular point and multiplied by the difference in the endpoints.
  • law-enforcement — of police, anti-crime
  • leadwort family — the plant family Plumbaginaceae, characterized by shrubs and herbaceous plants of seacoasts and semiarid regions, having basal or alternate leaves, spikelike clusters of tubular flowers, and dry, one-seeded fruit, and including leadwort, sea lavender, statice, and thrift.
  • leaf primordium — a group of cells that will develop into a leaf, seen as small bulges just below the shoot apex.
  • legion of merit — a decoration ranking below the Silver Star and above the Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded to U.S. and foreign military personnel for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the U.S.
  • lemon socialism — the policy of a government in a nominally free-market country of bailing out large failing private companies with taxpayers’ money
  • lemon-grass oil — a yellowish to brownish oil distilled from the leaves of certain lemon grasses, especially Cymbopogon citratus, used chiefly in perfumery.
  • leptomeningitis — (pathology) inflammation of the leptomeninges.
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • lethal mutation — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
  • leukaemogenesis — the development of leukaemia
  • levant wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
  • levi-montalcini — Rita, 1909–2012, U.S. neurologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize 1986.
  • limited company — a company in which the shareholders cannot be assessed for debts of the company beyond the sum they still have invested in the company.
  • limited edition — an edition, as of a book or lithograph, limited to a specified small number of copies.
  • linear manifold — subspace (def 2b).
  • linear momentum — force or speed of movement; impetus, as of a physical object or course of events: The car gained momentum going downhill. Her career lost momentum after two unsuccessful films.
  • little missouri — a river in the NW United States, rising in NE Wyoming and flowing NE into the Missouri through N Dakota. 560 miles (900 km) long.
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