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15-letter words containing m, i, c, o

  • officer of arms — an officer with the duties of a herald, especially one charged with the devising, granting, or confirming of armorial bearings.
  • official family — the executives or officials chiefly responsible for the operation of an organization or government.
  • oliver cromwell — Oliver, 1599–1658, English general, Puritan statesman, and Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland 1653–58.
  • omega-algebraic — In domain theory, a complete partial order is algebraic if every element is the lub of some chain of compact elements. If the set of compact elements is countable it is omega-algebraic. Usually written with a Greek letter omega (LaTeX \omega).
  • omnibenevolence — unlimited kindness and generosity
  • omnidirectional — sending or receiving signals in all directions: an omnidirectional microphone.
  • oneirocriticism — the art of interpreting dreams.
  • onomasiological — the study of the means of expressing a given concept.
  • open-cut mining — mining by excavating from the surface
  • opencast mining — mining by excavating from the surface
  • ophthalmoscopic — Of, pertaining to or using an ophthalmoscope.
  • optical pumping — a method for increasing the number of atoms or molecules occupying higher energy levels by irradiating them with light of the proper frequencies to raise them to those levels.
  • opus anglicanum — fine embroidery, esp of church vestments, produced in England c.1200–c.1350; characterized by the rich materials used, esp silver gilt thread
  • orange chromide — an Asian cichlid fish, Etropus maculatus, with a brownish-orange spotted body
  • ordinary income — taxable income, as salary and wages, other than capital gains.
  • organic farming — farming with organic methods
  • organized crime — illegal activities co-ordinated by groups
  • organomercurial — an organic compound containing mercury
  • over-complexity — the state or quality of being complex; intricacy: the complexity of urban life.
  • over-compliance — the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
  • over-excitement — to excite too much.
  • overachievement — to perform, especially academically, above the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.
  • overcommunicate — to communicate excessively
  • overconsumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • overpessimistic — excessively pessimistic or negative in outlook
  • pacific madrone — any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii (Pacific madrone) of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
  • pairs champions — competitors in or winners of a pairs championship
  • paleolithic man — any of the prehistoric populations of humans, as the Cro-Magnon, living in the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs.
  • palindromically — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
  • panoramic sight — an artillery sight that can be rotated horizontally in a full circle.
  • pantopragmatics — universal intervention in the affairs of others
  • pellicle mirror — a fixed mirror in a single-lens reflex camera that reflects some of the light entering the lens to the ground-glass view screen while permitting most of the light to pass through to the film.
  • periodic motion — any motion that recurs in identical forms at equal intervals of time.
  • periodic system — a system of classification of the elements based on the periodic law.
  • phantom circuit — a circuit derived from two suitably arranged pairs of wires, each pair being a circuit (side circuit) and also acting as one half of an additional derived circuit, the entire system providing the capabilities of three circuits while requiring wires for only two.
  • pharmacological — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
  • phenomenalistic — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
  • phloem necrosis — a disease of the American elm caused by a mycoplasmalike organism, characterized by yellowing and necrosis of the foliage and yellowish-brown discoloration of the phloem.
  • phonemicization — a grouping of phonemes
  • phonocardiogram — the graphic record produced by a phonocardiograph.
  • phonogramically — in a phonogramic manner
  • photomechanical — noting or pertaining to any of various processes for printing from plates or surfaces prepared by the aid of photography.
  • photomicrograph — a photograph taken through a microscope.
  • photomicroscope — a microscope having an illuminator and a camera mechanism for producing a photomicrograph.
  • physical memory — (memory management)   The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
  • physicochemical — physical and chemical: the physicochemical properties of an isomer.
  • phytochemically — in a phytochemical manner
  • piece to camera — a TV report in which a reporter is filmed saying something
  • piero di cosimo — Piero di [pee-air-oh di;; Italian pye-raw dee] /piˈɛər oʊ dɪ;; Italian ˈpyɛ rɔ di/ (Show IPA), Piero di Cosimo.
  • pincer movement — a military maneuver in which both flanks of an enemy force are attacked with the aim of attaining complete encirclement.
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