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

  • nonmetropolitan — Not metropolitan.
  • nonsedimentable — incapable of being sedimented
  • nonsimultaneous — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
  • normally-closed — Normally-closed switch contacts are in a closed state at rest.
  • old clothes man — a person who deals in second-hand clothes
  • old high german — High German before 1100. Abbreviation: OHG.
  • old man's beard — fringe tree.
  • old-man's-beard — fringe tree.
  • old-man-the-sea — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments) an old man who clung to the shoulders of Sindbad the Sailor for many days and nights.
  • oligomerisation — Alternative spelling of oligomerization.
  • oligomerization — (chemistry) The formation of an oligomer from a monomer.
  • omnibenevolence — unlimited kindness and generosity
  • omnidirectional — sending or receiving signals in all directions: an omnidirectional microphone.
  • on one's mettle — roused to putting forth one's best efforts
  • one-dimensional — having one dimension only.
  • ones complement — A system used in some computers to represent negative numbers. To negate a number, each bit of the number is inverted (zeros are replaced with ones and vice versa). This has the consequence that there are two reperesentations for zero, either all zeros or all ones. ... 000...00011 = +3 000...00010 = +2 000...00001 = +1 000...00000 = +0 111...11111 = -0 111...11110 = -1 111...11101 = -2 111...11100 = -3 ... Naive logic for ones complement addition might easily conclude that -0 + 1 = +0. The twos complement avoids this by using all ones to represent -1.
  • open enrollment — open admissions.
  • orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
  • ordinal numbers — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
  • organomercurial — an organic compound containing mercury
  • over-compliance — the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
  • overdevelopment — Excessive development; the state or quality of being overdeveloped.
  • overemotionally — In an overemotional manner.
  • overstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • palaeolimnology — the study of ancient lake ecologies
  • palaeomagnetism — the study of the fossil magnetism in rocks, used to determine the past configurations of the continents and to investigate the past shape and magnitude of the earth's magnetic field
  • palaeomagnetist — a student of or expert in palaeomagnetism
  • paleolithic man — any of the prehistoric populations of humans, as the Cro-Magnon, living in the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs.
  • parallel motion — a mechanism arranged so as to impart rectilinear motion to a rod connected to a lever that moves through an arc.
  • payment holiday — a break taken from paying ( a debt etc) back
  • personal column — The personal column in a newspaper or magazine contains messages for individual people and advertisements of a private nature.
  • phenomenalistic — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
  • phenomenologies — the study of phenomena.
  • phenomenologist — the study of phenomena.
  • 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.
  • photomechanical — noting or pertaining to any of various processes for printing from plates or surfaces prepared by the aid of photography.
  • plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
  • planned economy — an economic system in which the government controls and regulates production, distribution, prices, etc.
  • platform tennis — a variation of tennis played on a wooden platform enclosed with chicken wire in which the players hit a rubber ball with wooden paddles following the same basic rules as tennis except that only one serve is permitted and balls can be played off the back and side fences.
  • platinum blonde — a person, especially a girl or woman, whose hair is of a pale blond or silver color, usually colored artificially by bleaching or dyeing.
  • pleuropneumonia — pleurisy conjoined with pneumonia.
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
  • polynomial-time — (complexity)   (P) The set or property of problems which can be solved by a known polynomial-time algorithm.
  • portland cement — a type of hydraulic cement usually made by burning a mixture of limestone and clay in a kiln.
  • positive column — the luminous region between the Faraday dark space and the anode glow in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
  • post-millennial — of or relating to the period following the millennium.
  • preimplantation — relating to the period before implantation in the uterus
  • problem-solving — skills, process: of finding solutions
  • professionalism — professional character, spirit, or methods.
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