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

  • arrondissements — Plural form of arrondissement.
  • astrodynamicist — a person who studies astrodynamics
  • at the hands of — If someone experiences a particular kind of treatment, especially unpleasant treatment, at the hands of a person or organization, they receive it from them.
  • audio equipment — electrical devices used to play or record sound
  • auditor general — (in Canada) a federal official responsible for auditing government departments and making an annual report
  • audubon society — a North American organization devoted to the conservancy of birds
  • 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.
  • baconian method — induction (def 4a).
  • badminton court — the court on which games of badminton are played
  • bag on the side — An extension to an established hack that is supposed to add some functionality to the original. Usually derogatory, implying that the original was being overextended and should have been thrown away, and the new product is ugly, inelegant, or bloated. Also "to hang a bag on the side [of]". "C++? That's just a bag on the side of C." "They want me to hang a bag on the side of the accounting system."
  • bandstop filter — A bandstop filter is a filter designed to eliminate all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • banking product — one of the various services offered by a bank to its customers: mortgages, loans, insurance etc
  • barn-door skate — an Atlantic skate, Raja laevis, that grows to a length of 4 feet (1.2 meters) or more.
  • basic education — (in India) education in which all teaching is correlated with the learning of a craft
  • be of two minds — to be undecided or irresolute
  • be on the skids — to be on the decline or downgrade; meet with failure
  • beast of burden — A beast of burden is an animal such as an ox or a donkey that is used for carrying or pulling things.
  • beat the bounds — (formerly) to define the boundaries of a parish by making a procession around them and hitting the ground with rods
  • before the wind — with the wind coming from astern
  • benedict arnold — Benedict, 1741–1801, American general in the Revolutionary War who became a traitor.
  • benevolent fund — a charitable organization
  • beyond question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
  • beyond the pale — If you think that someone's actions or behaviour are not acceptable, you can say that they are beyond the pale.
  • bide one's time — to wait patiently for an opportunity
  • 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
  • bit on the side — an extramarital affair
  • bit-mapped font — a computer font whose characters are held in memory as series of dots.
  • bits per second — (communications, unit)   (bps, b/s) The unit in which data rate is measured. For example, a modem's data rate is usually measured in kilobits per second. In 1996, the maximum modem speed for use on the PSTN was 33.6 kbps, rising to 56 kbps in 1997. Note that kilo- (k), mega- (M), etc. in data rates denote powers of 1000, not 1024.
  • 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.
  • blossom-end rot — a disease of tomato and pepper caused by a deficiency of calcium, characterized by decay at the blossom end of the fruit.
  • boating holiday — a holiday spent sailing or travelling in a canal boat, cruiser, etc
  • bodily function — A person's bodily functions are the normal physical processes that regularly occur in their body, particularly the ability to urinate and defecate.
  • body toning bar — a weighted exercise bar made of steel encased in a layer of foam, used for toning and strength training.
  • bone conduction — the transmission of sound vibrations to the internal ear through the cranial bones (opposed to air conduction).
  • border incident — an incident, usually fighting, on a border between countries
  • bottled in bond — stored in bonded warehouses for a stated length of time before being bottled, as some whiskey
  • boustrophedonic — of or relating to lines written in opposite directions
  • brand extension — the practice of using a well-known brand name to promote new products or services in unrelated fields
  • bring to a head — to bring or be brought to a crisis
  • broken pediment — a pediment, as over a doorway or window, having its raking cornice interrupted at the crown or apex.
  • bronze diabetes — hemochromatosis.
  • brownfield site — a disused site envisaged for redevelopment
  • bulldog edition — the early edition of a morning newspaper, chiefly for out-of-town distribution
  • cadmean victory — a victory won with great losses to the victors
  • calendarization — the process of calendarizing
  • calydonian hunt — the pursuit by Meleager, Atalanta, and others of a savage boar (Calydonian boar) sent by Artemis to lay waste to Calydon.
  • canadianization — to make Canadian in character.
  • cardinal points — the four main points of the compass: north, south, east, and west
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