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15-letter words containing n, e, t, d, o, m

  • fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
  • flannel-mouthed — speaking thickly, as if one's mouth were full of flannel
  • food supplement — a substance designed to make up for a deficiency in one's diet
  • formation dance — any dance in which a number of couples form a certain arrangement, such as two facing lines or a circle, and perform a series of figures within or based on that arrangement
  • gated community — a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.
  • golden nematode — a yellowish nematode, Heterodera rostochiensis, that is parasitic on the roots of potatoes, tomatoes, and other solanaceous plants.
  • gotterdammerung — German Mythology. the destruction of the gods and of all things in a final battle with evil powers: erroneous modern translation of the Old Icelandic Ragnarǫk, meaning “fate of the gods,” misunderstood as Ragnarökkr, meaning “twilight of the gods.”.
  • government bond — a bond issued by a country's government, in its own currency
  • ground meristem — an area of primary meristematic tissue, emerging from and immediately behind the apical meristem, that develops into the pith and the cortex.
  • guru meditation — (operating system)   The Amiga equivalent of Unix's panic (sometimes just called a "guru" or "guru event"). When the system crashes, a cryptic message of the form "GURU MEDITATION #XXXXXXXX.YYYYYYYY" may appear, indicating what the problem was. An Amiga guru can figure things out from the numbers. In the earliest days of the Amiga, there was a device called a "Joyboard" which was basically a plastic board built onto a joystick-like device; it was sold with a skiing game cartridge for the Atari game machine. It is said that whenever the prototype OS crashed, the system programmer responsible would concentrate on a solution while sitting cross-legged, balanced on a Joyboard, resembling a meditating guru. Sadly, the joke was removed in AmigaOS 2.04. The Jargon File claimed that a guru event had to be followed by a Vulcan nerve pinch but, according to a correspondent, a mouse click was enough to start a reboot.
  • haute-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: generally fertile and flat
  • heart tamponade — tamponade (def 2).
  • hearth and home — domestic realm
  • hemadynamometer — An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury.
  • horner's method — a technique, involving successive substitutions, for approximating the real roots of an equation with real coefficients.
  • immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
  • immunodeficient — Exhibiting immunodeficiency.
  • implied consent — a manifestation of consent to something through conduct, including inaction or silence.
  • imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
  • in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
  • in the midst of — amid, among
  • indemnification — the act of indemnifying; state of being indemnified.
  • indemnity cover — cover providing insurance against damage or loss
  • indetermination — the quality or condition of being indeterminate.
  • indomitableness — Quality of being indomitable.
  • intake manifold — a collection of tubes through which the fuel-air mixture flows from the carburetor or fuel injector to the intake valves of the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine.
  • integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
  • intermodulation — the production in an electrical device of frequencies that are the sums or differences of frequencies of different inputs or of their harmonics.
  • inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
  • investment bond — a single-premium life-assurance policy in which a fixed sum is invested in an asset-backed fund
  • keystone comedy — a short film of the silent era, often featuring the Keystone Kops.
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • levant wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
  • limited company — a company in which the shareholders cannot be assessed for debts of the company beyond the sum they still have invested in the company.
  • limited edition — an edition, as of a book or lithograph, limited to a specified small number of copies.
  • lymphadenectomy — the excision of one or more lymph nodes, usually as a procedure in the surgical removal or destruction of a cancer.
  • lymphadenopathy — chronically swollen lymph nodes.
  • macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
  • madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
  • magnetic domain — a portion of a ferromagnetic material where the magnetic moments are aligned with one another because of interactions between molecules or atoms.
  • make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
  • managing editor — an editor assigned to the supervision and coordination of certain editorial activities of a newspaper, magazine, book publishing company, or the like. Abbreviation: M.E., m.e.
  • meadow nematode — any of numerous parasitic nematodes of the genus Pratylenchus that infest and destroy the roots of plants.
  • means to an end — method of achieving sth
  • media converter — (networking)   A component used in Ethernet, although it is not part of the IEEE standard. The IEEE standard states that all segments must be linked with repeaters. Media converters were developed as a simpler, cheaper alternative to repeaters. However, in the 1990s the cost difference between the two is negligible.
  • mediastinoscopy — (medicine) A procedure for examining the inside of the mediastinum and the organs it encloses through a small incision, using an endoscope. This is a surgical procedure normally done under general anesthesia.
  • medicine bottle — a small bottle used to hold medicine
  • medieval breton — the Breton language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 12th to the mid-17th centuries.
  • melamine-coated — covered with an outer layer of melamine
  • mental disorder — any of the various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis.
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