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15-letter words containing n, e, o, l, i, t

  • 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
  • ballpoint (pen) — a pen having, instead of a point, a small ball bearing that picks up its ink by rolling against an interior ink reservoir
  • bandstop filter — A bandstop filter is a filter designed to eliminate all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • battle stations — the places to which soldiers, sailors, warships, etc. are assigned for a battle or an emergency
  • beef wellington — a lightly roasted beef fillet covered with pâté de foie gras, wrapped in pastry, and then baked
  • bello horizonte — a city in SE Brazil.
  • benedict arnold — Benedict, 1741–1801, American general in the Revolutionary War who became a traitor.
  • 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
  • bessel function — one of several transcendental functions, usually represented as power series, that are solutions to a group of related differential equations.
  • bicycle touring — the activity of touring on a bicycle
  • bidirectionally — in a bidirectional manner
  • billings method — a natural method of birth control that involves examining the colour and viscosity of the cervical mucus to discover when ovulation is occurring
  • biting housefly — a two-winged fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, having the mouthparts adapted for biting, and commonly a household and stable pest.
  • black operation — a covert and undocumented military operation
  • blast injection — the injection of liquid fuel directly into the cylinder of an internal-combustion engine using a blast of high-pressure air to atomize the spray of fuel
  • blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
  • bloodguiltiness — guilty of murder or bloodshed.
  • boil-in-the-bag — (of food) able to be boiled in a sealed bag until ready to eat
  • bottled in bond — stored in bonded warehouses for a stated length of time before being bottled, as some whiskey
  • bowel complaint — bowel disease or condition
  • bring into line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
  • 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
  • brownfield site — a disused site envisaged for redevelopment
  • buffer solution — a solution to which a salt of a weak acid or base has been added
  • bulldog edition — the early edition of a morning newspaper, chiefly for out-of-town distribution
  • calamine lotion — a soothing lotion containing calamine
  • calendarization — the process of calendarizing
  • call into being — to create
  • capital offence — a crime for which the death penalty is used
  • categoricalness — The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute.
  • cell disruption — Cell disruption is when a biological material becomes smaller to release proteins and enzymes.
  • celo-navigation — celestial navigation.
  • central locking — a system by which all the doors of a motor vehicle can be locked simultaneously when the driver's door is locked
  • centrifugal box — a revolving chamber, used in the spinning of manufactured filaments, in which the plastic fibers, subjected to centrifugal force, are slightly twisted and emerge in the form of yarn wound into the shape of a hollow cylinder.
  • chemosterilants — Plural form of chemosterilant.
  • chicken lobster — a young lobster weighing 1 pound (0.4 kg) or less.
  • chief constable — A Chief Constable is the officer who is in charge of the police force in a particular county or area in Britain.
  • child endowment — a social security payment for dependent children
  • cholangiectasis — Dilation of the bile ducts.
  • cholecystokinin — a hormone secreted by duodenal cells that stimulates the contraction of the gall bladder and secretion of pancreatic enzymes
  • climate control — air conditioning in a building or vehicle
  • closed interval — an interval on the real line including its end points, as [0, 1], the set of reals between and including 0 and 1
  • closed position — (in ballet, modern dance, and jazz dance) any position in which the feet touch each other.
  • cocktail lounge — A cocktail lounge is a room in a hotel, restaurant, or club where you can buy alcoholic drinks.
  • coenzymatically — from a coenzymatic point of view
  • collecting bank — a bank that collects money from the account of the writer of a cheque on behalf of the person who has deposited the cheque into the bank
  • collective noun — A collective noun is a noun such as 'family' or 'team' that refers to a group of people or things.
  • college station — a city in E central Texas.
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