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

  • arrondissements — Plural form of arrondissement.
  • asbestos cement — a compound of asbestos fiber and Portland cement formerly used for various nonstructural building purposes.
  • audio equipment — electrical devices used to play or record sound
  • 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.
  • autotransformer — a transformer in which part of the winding is common to both primary and secondary circuits
  • baconian method — induction (def 4a).
  • balloon payment — a large payment that concludes a series of smaller payments, for example in order to repay a loan
  • bar examination — a written examination to determine if one is qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction.
  • bathing costume — A bathing costume is a piece of clothing that is worn for swimming, especially by women and girls.
  • beat one's gums — to talk much and idly
  • beat one's meat — to masturbate
  • bergamot orange — a small Asian spiny rutaceous tree, Citrus bergamia, having sour pear-shaped fruit
  • bit-mapped font — a computer font whose characters are held in memory as series of dots.
  • 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
  • bowel complaint — bowel disease or condition
  • brother-in-arms — a fellow soldier or comrade in a shared struggle
  • button mangrove — a tropical tree, Conocarpus erectus, having small, reddish, conelike fruits and bark used in tanning.
  • cadmean victory — a victory won with great losses to the victors
  • cairngorm-stone — smoky quartz.
  • calamine lotion — a soothing lotion containing calamine
  • casement-window — a window sash opening on hinges that are generally attached to the upright side of its frame.
  • castanospermine — a substance obtained from the Australian chestnut or black bean tree
  • castrametations — Plural form of castrametation.
  • catchment board — a public body concerned with the conservation and organization of water supply from a catchment area
  • chamber concert — a concert of chamber music
  • chemoattractant — a chemical substance that provokes chemotaxis, esp one that causes a bacterium to move in the direction in which its concentration is increasing
  • chemosterilants — Plural form of chemosterilant.
  • chemotaxonomist — a specialist in the field of chemotaxonomy
  • chimney-pot hat — a high silk hat; top hat.
  • cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
  • cinematographer — A cinematographer is a person who decides what filming techniques should be used during the shooting of a film.
  • cinematographic — a motion-picture projector.
  • climate control — air conditioning in a building or vehicle
  • code management — source code management
  • codetermination — joint participation of management and employees or employees' trade union representatives in some decisions
  • coenzymatically — from a coenzymatic point of view
  • coleman lantern — a gasoline lantern that gives a bright light, used by campers
  • collenchymatous — Relating to collenchyma.
  • combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
  • come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
  • comfort blanket — a blanket that a young child is very attached to
  • comfortableness — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
  • commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
  • common disaster — the death of an insured party and a beneficiary occurring at the same time in the same accident.
  • common entrance — (in Britain) an entrance examination for a public school, usually taken at the age of 13
  • communicatively — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
  • communion plate — a flat plate held under the chin of a communicant in order to catch any fragments of the consecrated Host
  • communion table — (in a Christian church) the table at which people take communion
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