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15-letter words containing n, a, m, t, r

  • antiferromagnet — a material which exhibits antiferromagnetism
  • antihemorrhagic — That stops or reduces hemorrhage.
  • antimaterialism — an attitude opposed to materialism
  • antimaterialist — opposed to materialism
  • antimonarchical — opposed to the monarchy
  • antirationalism — the opposition to rationalism
  • antiremonstrant — the party that opposed the Remonstrants
  • antiromanticism — the opposition to romanticism
  • apartment block — building: flats, apartments
  • apartment hotel — a hotel that rents furnished apartments or suites suitable for housekeeping, on a weekly or more permanent basis, and usually supplies all hotel services.
  • apartment house — a building containing a number of residential apartments.
  • approximateness — The quality of being approximate.
  • 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.
  • argumentatively — fond of or given to argument and dispute; disputatious; contentious: The law students were an unusually argumentative group.
  • aristotelianism — a philosophical tradition based on the wide-ranging belief system of Aristotle
  • arithmetic mean — an average value of a set of integers, terms, or quantities, expressed as their sum divided by their number
  • 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-navy store — a retail store selling a stock of surplus army, naval, and other military apparel and goods, often at bargain rates.
  • arrangement fee — a fee charged by a bank, building society, etc for setting up a loan
  • arrest judgment — to stay proceedings after a verdict, on the grounds of error or possible error
  • arrondissements — Plural form of arrondissement.
  • astrodynamicist — a person who studies astrodynamics
  • at arm's length — If you hold something at arm's length, you hold it away from your body with your arm straight.
  • augmented roman — a writing system based on an expanded English alphabet, consisting of 43 characters representing different phonemes of spoken English, used for teaching beginners to read. Abbreviation: I.T.A., i.t.a.
  • 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
  • badminton court — the court on which games of badminton are played
  • bangtail muster — a roundup of cattle to be counted, each one having the hairs on its tail docked as it is counted
  • bar examination — a written examination to determine if one is qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction.
  • barium titanate — a crystalline ceramic used in capacitors and piezoelectric devices. Formula: BaTiO3
  • barry mountains — a mountain range in SE Australia, in E Victoria: part of the Australian Alps
  • battery farming — the activity of using batteries for raising poultry
  • bedtime reading — a book, magazine etc read at bedtime
  • bergamot orange — a small Asian spiny rutaceous tree, Citrus bergamia, having sour pear-shaped fruit
  • bohemian forest — a mountain range between the SW Czech Republic and SE Germany. Highest peak: Arber, 1457 m (4780 ft)
  • boston marriage — (especially in 19th-century New England) an intimate friendship between two women often maintaining a household together.
  • boston massacre — an outbreak (1770) in Boston against British troops, in which a few citizens were killed
  • break statement — (programming)   A statement in the C programming language that transfers control out of the innermost enclosing switch, while, do, or for statement. The statement also exists in languages derived from C, such as C++ and Java.
  • britannia metal — an alloy of low melting point consisting of tin with 5–10 per cent antimony, 1–3 per cent copper, and sometimes small quantities of zinc, lead, or bismuth: used for decorative purposes and for bearings
  • brother-in-arms — a fellow soldier or comrade in a shared struggle
  • brown-tail moth — a white moth, Nygmia phaerrhoea, having a brown tuft at the end of the abdomen, the larvae of which feed on the foliage of various shade and fruit trees.
  • brownian motion — the irregular motion of small particles suspended in a liquid or a gas, caused by the bombardment of the particles by molecules of the medium: first observed by Robert Brown in 1827.
  • button mangrove — a tropical tree, Conocarpus erectus, having small, reddish, conelike fruits and bark used in tanning.
  • cactus geranium — a plant, Pelargonium echinatum, of the geranium family, native to southern Africa, having prickly stipules and white or reddish flowers.
  • cadmean victory — a victory won with great losses to the victors
  • cairngorm-stone — smoky quartz.
  • calcium nitrate — a white, deliquescent solid, Ca(NO 3) 2 , used chiefly in the manufacture of fertilizers, fireworks, matches, and explosives.
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