15-letter words containing n, o, s, a, c
- nonmucilaginous — Not mucilaginous.
- nonpsychiatrist — a person who is not a psychiatrist
- nonpsychoactive — Not psychoactive.
- nonrelativistic — not concerned with or involving the theory of relativity
- nonsensicalness — Nonsensicality.
- nonsolicitation — Being or pertaining to a particular kind of noncompetition agreement that forbids a former employee from attempting to recruit the employer's colleagues or customers.
- nonspecifically — in a nonspecific way
- normally-closed — Normally-closed switch contacts are in a closed state at rest.
- norman conquest — the conquest of England by the Normans, under William the Conqueror, in 1066.
- north caucasian — a language family including all the Caucasian languages north of the Caucasian divide, as Kabardian and the Circassian language proper, and a few between the divide and the Black Sea, as Abkhazian.
- not necessarily — If you reply 'Not necessarily', you mean that what has just been said or suggested may not be true.
- nova scotia lox — a kind of brine-cured salmon, having either a salt cure (Scandinavian lox) or a sugar cure (Nova Scotia lox) often eaten with cream cheese on a bagel.
- nuclear fission — fission (def 2).
- nuisance ground — a garbage dump.
- object distance — the distance between the lens of a camera and an object being photographed.
- observation car — a railroad passenger car having a lounge or platform from which the scenery can be viewed.
- obsidional coin — siege piece.
- ocean of storms — the largest of the dark plains (maria) on the surface of the moon, situated in the second and third quadrant
- old clothes man — a person who deals in second-hand clothes
- on o's haunches — If you get down on your haunches, you lower yourself towards the ground so that your legs are bent under you and you are balancing on your feet.
- on the decrease — decreasing
- on the increase — growing, increasing
- onomasiological — the study of the means of expressing a given concept.
- opencast mining — mining by excavating from the surface
- optical scanner — the process of interpreting data in printed, handwritten, bar-code, or other visual form by a device (optical scanner or reader) that scans and identifies the data.
- opus anglicanum — fine embroidery, esp of church vestments, produced in England c.1200–c.1350; characterized by the rich materials used, esp silver gilt thread
- orchestrational — Of or pertaining to orchestration.
- ordnance survey — mapmaking agency
- organic disease — a disease in which there is a structural alteration (opposed to functional disease).
- organized chaos — a complex situation or process that appears chaotic while having enough order to achieve progress or goals
- organochlorines — Plural form of organochlorine.
- oscars ceremony — a formal annual event in the United States in which small gold statuettes are awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for outstanding achievements in films
- oval of cassini — the locus of a point such that the product of the distances from the point to two fixed points is constant.
- over-compensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
- overcompensated — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
- overcompensates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcompensate.
- overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- pack one's bags — If you pack your bags, you leave a place where you have been staying or living.
- painter's colic — Pathology. lead poisoning causing intense intestinal pain.
- pairs champions — competitors in or winners of a pairs championship
- panoramic sight — an artillery sight that can be rotated horizontally in a full circle.
- pantopragmatics — universal intervention in the affairs of others
- parallel cousin — a cousin who is the child either of one's mother's sister or of one's father's brother.
- passenger coach — a carriage in which passengers sit
- past continuous — past progressive.
- peace offensive — an active program, policy, propaganda campaign, etc., by a national government for the purpose of terminating a war or period of hostility, lessening international tensions, or promoting peaceful cooperation with other nations.
- pergamentaceous — (esp of plants) resembling parchment, whether in texture or composition
- personal column — The personal column in a newspaper or magazine contains messages for individual people and advertisements of a private nature.
- personification — the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
- pheasant coucal — a brown and black, red-eyed Australian bird, Centropus phasianinus, with a pheasantlike tail.