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15-letter words containing l, e, o, n, a, r

  • architectonical — Alternative form of architectonic.
  • aristotelianism — a philosophical tradition based on the wide-ranging belief system of Aristotle
  • arrivals lounge — a waiting area for people meeting passengers
  • arterialization — to convert (venous blood) into arterial blood by the action of oxygen in the lungs.
  • assemblypersons — Plural form of assemblyperson.
  • at the controls — If someone is at the controls of a machine or other piece of equipment, they are operating it.
  • atrabiliousness — The state or quality of being characterized by melancholy or glumness.
  • attorney-at-law — a lawyer qualified to represent in court a party to a legal action
  • auditor general — (in Canada) a federal official responsible for auditing government departments and making an annual report
  • autocorrelation — the condition occurring when successive items in a series are correlated so that their covariance is not zero and they are not independent
  • autofluorescent — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting autofluorescence.
  • balance control — a state of equilibrium or equipoise; equal distribution of weight, amount, etc.
  • balloon barrage — a series of moored balloons, usually strung together and hung with cables, for impeding a low-level attack by enemy aircraft.
  • ballroom dancer — a person who participates in ballroom dancing
  • bandstop filter — A bandstop filter is a filter designed to eliminate all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • barcelona chair — an armless, padded leather chair on a steel frame shaped like a curved X: Barcelona is a trademark for this chair
  • barrage balloon — Barrage balloons are large balloons which are fixed to the ground by strong steel cables. They are used in wartime, when the cables are intended to destroy low-flying enemy aircraft.
  • beach goldenrod — a composite plant, Solidago sempervirens, of eastern and southern North America, having a thick stem and large, branched, one-sided terminal clusters of yellow flowers, flourishing on sea beaches or salt marshes.
  • belgian griffon — one of a variety of the Brussels griffon having a black or reddish-brown and black coat.
  • benedict arnold — Benedict, 1741–1801, American general in the Revolutionary War who became a traitor.
  • benzal chloride — a colorless, oily liquid, C 7 H 6 Cl 2 , used chiefly in the synthesis of benzaldehyde, and in the manufacture of dyes.
  • bernoulli trial — one of a sequence of independent experiments each of which has the same probability of success, such as successive throws of a die, the outcome of which is described by a binomial distribution
  • bidirectionally — in a bidirectional manner
  • binomial series — an infinite series obtained by expanding a binomial raised to a power that is not a positive integer.
  • black horehound — a hairy unpleasant-smelling chiefly Mediterranean plant, Ballota nigra, having clusters of purple flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
  • black operation — a covert and undocumented military operation
  • black snakeroot — a tall bugbane, Cimicifuga racemosa, of the buttercup family, of eastern North America, having thin, tapering, toothed or deeply cut leaflets and branched clusters of small, white flowers.
  • bladder campion — a European caryophyllaceous plant, Silene vulgaris, having white flowers with an inflated calyx
  • blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
  • blenheim orange — a type of apple tree bearing gold-coloured apples
  • blockade runner — a person, ship etc that tries to carry goods through a blockade
  • blockade-runner — a ship or person that passes through a blockade.
  • boolean algebra — a system of symbolic logic devised by George Boole to codify logical operations. It is used in computers
  • borderline case — a person or thing that is not clearly classifiable as something
  • brave new world — If someone refers to a brave new world, they are talking about a situation or system that has recently been created and that people think will be successful and fair.
  • breaking plough — a plough with a long shallow mouldboard for turning virgin land or sod land
  • bristol channel — an inlet of the Atlantic, between S Wales and SW England, merging into the Severn estuary. Length: about 137 km (85 miles)
  • bronchial tubes — the bronchi or their smaller divisions
  • bronzed grackle — the western subspecies of the American bird, the common grackle, Quiscalus quiscula versicolor, having bronzy, iridescent plumage.
  • bulimia nervosa — a disorder characterized by compulsive overeating followed by vomiting: sometimes associated with anxiety about gaining weight
  • bullnose header — bull header (def 1).
  • bullnose-header — Also called bullnose header. a brick having one of the edges across its width rounded for laying as a header in a sill or the like.
  • calendarization — the process of calendarizing
  • california rose — a cultivated variety of a bindweed, Calystegia hederacea, having showy, double, rose-colored flowers.
  • camp counsellor — an adult supervisor assigned to a group of campers at a summer camp
  • cannonball tree — a South American tree, Couroupita guianensis, bearing round, woody-husked fruit whose shells are used to make containers and utensils.
  • cardinal flower — a campanulaceous plant, Lobelia cardinalis of E North America, that has brilliant scarlet, pink, or white flowers
  • cardinal vowels — a set of theoretical vowel sounds, based on the shape of the mouth needed to articulate them, that can be used to classify the vowel sounds of any speaker in any language
  • categoricalness — The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute.
  • central locking — a system by which all the doors of a motor vehicle can be locked simultaneously when the driver's door is locked
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