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15-letter words containing n, o, s, e, a, l

  • lemon socialism — the policy of a government in a nominally free-market country of bailing out large failing private companies with taxpayers’ money
  • lemon-grass oil — a yellowish to brownish oil distilled from the leaves of certain lemon grasses, especially Cymbopogon citratus, used chiefly in perfumery.
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • lesser dionysia — (in ancient Attica) the wine feasts, processions, and dramatic performances composing one of the festivals honoring Dionysus, held in the middle of December.
  • leukaemogenesis — the development of leukaemia
  • 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.
  • lex non scripta — unwritten law; common law.
  • lexical scoping — lexical scope
  • liaison officer — a person who liaises between groups or units
  • liberalizations — Plural form of liberalization.
  • lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
  • line of apsides — a line joining the lower and higher apsides, forming the major axis of the orbit
  • lissencephalous — having the cephalic disorder of a lack of developed brain folds
  • loaded question — a question containing a hidden trap or implication
  • loan investment — a loan made as an investment
  • lofoten islands — group of Norwegian islands within the Arctic Circle, off the NW coast of Norway: c. 550 sq mi (1,424 sq km)
  • lone star state — Texas (used as a nickname).
  • long-case clock — tall-case clock.
  • long-sufferance — long-suffering.
  • lons-le-saunier — a department in E France. 1952 sq. mi. (5055 sq. km). Capital: Lons-le-Saunier.
  • lose one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • lost generation — the generation of men and women who came of age during or immediately following World War I: viewed, as a result of their war experiences and the social upheaval of the time, as cynical, disillusioned, and without cultural or emotional stability.
  • loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
  • louis d'orleans — Louis Philippe Joseph [lwee fee-leep zhaw-zef] /lwi fiˈlip ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), Duc (Philippe Égalité) 1747–93, French political leader.
  • louisiana heron — tricolored heron.
  • luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
  • maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
  • make allowances — to take mitigating circumstances into account in consideration (of)
  • malpresentation — Abnormal positioning of a fetus at the time of delivery.
  • mannheim school — a group of musicians of the mid-18th century in Mannheim, Germany, notable for developing a style of orchestral composition and performance directly antecedent to and influential on the classical style of Haydn and Mozart.
  • manorial system — manorialism.
  • materialisation — Alternative spelling of materialization.
  • meals on wheels — a program, usually one supported or subsidized by a charitable, social, or government agency, for delivering hot meals regularly to elderly, disabled, or convalescing persons who are housebound and cannot cook for themselves.
  • mean solar time — time measured by the hour angle of the mean sun.
  • menomonee falls — a city in SE Wisconsin, NW of Milwaukee.
  • mental disorder — any of the various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis.
  • mental hospital — psychiatric institution
  • mephistophelean — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
  • mephistophelian — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
  • metropolitanism — of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.
  • millionairesses — Plural form of millionairess.
  • miscegenational — of or relating to miscegenation
  • miscellaneously — In a miscellaneous manner.
  • mitral stenosis — abnormal narrowing of the mitral valve usually resulting from disease, as rheumatic fever, and obstructing the free flow of blood from the atrium to the ventricle.
  • moccasin flower — the lady's-slipper.
  • mole salamander — ambystomid.
  • monochlamydeous — (of a flower) having a perianth of one whorl of members; not having a separate calyx and corolla
  • morale-boosting — A morale-boosting action or event makes people feel more confident and cheerful.
  • morelos y pavon — José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1765–1815, Mexican priest and revolutionary leader.
  • most honourable — a courtesy title applied to marquesses and members of the Privy Council and the Order of the Bath
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