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15-letter words containing m, r, s

  • anti-radicalism — the holding or following of radical or extreme views or principles.
  • antiarrhythmics — Plural form of antiarrhythmic.
  • anticlericalism — opposed to the influence and activities of the clergy or the church in secular or public affairs.
  • antimaterialism — an attitude opposed to materialism
  • antimaterialist — opposed to materialism
  • antirationalism — the opposition to rationalism
  • antiremonstrant — the party that opposed the Remonstrants
  • antiromanticism — the opposition to romanticism
  • apartment house — a building containing a number of residential apartments.
  • apical meristem — meristem at the apex of a root or shoot.
  • approximateness — The quality of being approximate.
  • arabian jasmine — a climbing shrub, Jasminum sambac, of India, having hairy branches and very fragrant white flowers that turn purple with age, used in making jasmine tea; sampaguita.
  • arabic numerals — the figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and the 0 (zero) that originated in India; Hindu-Arabic numerals
  • archaeastronomy — (astronomy, archaeology) The historical, especially archeological, study of astronomy; the study of the astronomical systems and methods of ancient cultures often embracing the astrology and cosmology of the past.
  • archeoastronomy — the branch of archaeology that deals with the apparent use by prehistoric civilizations of astronomical techniques to establish the seasons or the cycle of the year, especially as evidenced in the construction of megaliths and other ritual structures.
  • aristotelianism — a philosophical tradition based on the wide-ranging belief system of Aristotle
  • armaments depot — a store for armaments
  • armes parlantes — arms using devices to illustrate the name of the bearers, such as a rose and a wall to illustrate the name Rosewall
  • arms inspection — the official checking of a country's weapons and other military equipment, usually to check that international agreements have been respected
  • army air forces — a unit comprising almost all aviation, with its personnel, equipment, etc.: it became part of the Air Force on July 26, 1947.
  • army-navy store — a retail store selling a stock of surplus army, naval, and other military apparel and goods, often at bargain rates.
  • arrest judgment — to stay proceedings after a verdict, on the grounds of error or possible error
  • arrondissements — Plural form of arrondissement.
  • assemblypersons — Plural form of assemblyperson.
  • astrodynamicist — a person who studies astrodynamics
  • astrophotometry — the measurement of the intensity of light of celestial objects.
  • asymmetric bars — a pair of wooden or fibreglass bars placed parallel to each other but set at different heights, for various exercises
  • asymmetric time — musical time consisting of an odd number of beats in each bar divided into uneven combinations, such as 3 + 2, 4 + 3, 2 + 3 + 2, etc
  • at arm's length — If you hold something at arm's length, you hold it away from your body with your arm straight.
  • atmospherically — pertaining to, existing in, or consisting of the atmosphere: atmospheric vapors.
  • augusta emerita — a market town in W Spain, in Extremadura, on the Guadiana River: founded in 25 bc; became the capital of Lusitania and one of the chief cities of Iberia. Pop: 52 110 (2003 est)
  • australian mist — a breed of medium-sized cat with a short spotted or marbled coat
  • autotransformer — a transformer in which part of the winding is common to both primary and secondary circuits
  • azobisformamide — (chemistry) azodicarbonamide.
  • ballet mistress — a woman who teaches and rehearses the dancers in a ballet company
  • bangtail muster — a roundup of cattle to be counted, each one having the hairs on its tail docked as it is counted
  • baptism of fire — If someone who has just begun a new job has a baptism of fire, they immediately have to cope with very many severe difficulties and obstacles.
  • barium stearate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, Ba(C 18 H 35 O 2) 2 , used chiefly as a waterproofing agent and as a lubricant.
  • barium sulphate — a white insoluble fine dense powder, used as a pigment, as a filler for paper, rubber, etc, and in barium meals. Formula: BaSO4
  • barry mountains — a mountain range in SE Australia, in E Victoria: part of the Australian Alps
  • basse-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: consists of the Cherbourg peninsula in the west rising to the Normandy hills in the east; mainly agricultural
  • bathroom scales — scales typically kept in a bathroom for people to weigh themselves
  • bear comparison — to be sufficiently similar in class or range to be compared with (something else), esp favourably
  • bedroom slipper — a soft shoe worn in the house
  • before the mast — as an apprentice seaman
  • beside the mark — not striking the point aimed at
  • binomial series — an infinite series obtained by expanding a binomial raised to a power that is not a positive integer.
  • biogeochemistry — the science of biological, chemical, and geological aspects of the environment
  • black sea bream — a sparid fish, Spondyliosoma cantharus, found in N Europe and the Mediterranean
  • black september — a Palestinian Terrorist group, responsible for the assassinations of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games at Munich in 1972
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