15-letter words containing o, n, e, s, p, a
- enteropeptidase — Enterokinase.
- epsilon squared — (jargon) A quantity even smaller than epsilon, as small in comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal; completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars, the cost of the thousand-dollar terminal to go with it is epsilon, and the cost of the ten-dollar cable to connect them is epsilon squared. Compare lost in the underflow, lost in the noise.
- eric conspiracy — (person, humour) A shadowy group of moustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk.bizarre posting ca. 1986. This was doubtless influenced by the numerous "Eric" jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre. There do indeed seem to be considerably more moustachioed Erics in hackerdom than the frequency of these three traits can account for unless they are correlated in some arcane way. Well-known examples include Eric Allman (of the "Allman style" described under indent style), Erik Fair (co-author of NNTP), Eric S. Raymond and about fifteen others. The organisation line "Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories" now emanates regularly from more than one site.
- exceptionalness — The quality of being exceptional.
- expansion joint — structural feature: gap to allow for expansion or contraction
- expense account — account for expenses
- explain oneself — to make clear what one means
- export earnings — the earnings of a company or country that are generated through the export of goods or services
- expression mark — one of a set of musical directions, usually in Italian, indicating how a piece or passage is to be performed
- extemporisation — Alternative spelling of extemporization.
- fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
- fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
- fissiparousness — The quality of being fissiparous.
- for their pains — You say that something was all you got for your pains when you are mentioning the disappointing result of situation into which you put a lot of work or effort.
- franz joseph ii — 1906–1989, prince of Liechtenstein 1938–89.
- front-page news — a story printed on the first page of a newspaper
- general-purpose — useful in many ways; not limited in use or function: a good general-purpose dictionary.
- gigantopithecus — a genus of extinct ape of southern Asia existing during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, known only from very large fossil jaws and teeth and believed to be perhaps the biggest hominoid that ever lived.
- glazier's point — a small, pointed piece of sheet metal, for holding a pane of glass in a sash until the putty has hardened.
- go up in flames — be burned
- golden eardrops — a Californian plant, Dicentra chrysantha, of the fumitory family, having bluish-green foliage and branched clusters of yellow flowers.
- golden pheasant — an Asiatic pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus, having brilliant scarlet, orange, gold, green, and black plumage.
- golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
- grafenberg spot — a patch of tissue in the front wall of the vagina, claimed to be erectile and highly erogenous.
- group insurance — life, accident, or health insurance available to a group of persons, as the employees of a company, under a single contract, usually without regard to physical condition or age of the individuals.
- hardhead sponge — any of several commercial sponges, as Spongia officinalis dura, of the West Indies and Central America, having a harsh, fibrous, resilient skeleton.
- have one's pick — If you have your pick of a group of things, you are able to choose any of them that you want.
- hopper casement — a casement with a sash hinged at the bottom.
- hospital corner — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
- house physician — a house officer working in a medical as opposed to a surgical discipline
- hump one's swag — (of a tramp) to carry one's belongings from place to place on one's back
- hyperovarianism — precocious sexuality in girls due to abnormally heavy ovarian secretion.
- hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
- hypochondriases — Plural form of hypochondriasis.
- hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
- hypoinsulinemia — (medicine) An abnormally low level of insulin in the blood.
- hypomagnesaemia — the condition of having too little magnesium in the blood, particularly in cattle, in which it is also known as lactation tetany
- implementations — Plural form of implementation.
- importunateness — Quality of being importunate.
- in the shape of — You can use in the shape of to state exactly who or what you are referring to, immediately after referring to them in a general way.
- incapaciousness — the quality of not having (sufficiently) great capacity
- inoperativeness — The state or condition of being inoperative; nonfunction.
- inspection arms — a position in military drill in which the missile chamber of a weapon is open for inspection.
- intercomparison — mutual comparison
- interiorscaping — The design, installation, and maintenance of interiorscapes.
- interparoxysmal — occurring in the period or periods between paroxysms.
- interpersonally — of or pertaining to the relations between persons: He has strong interpersonal skills.
- interpretations — Plural form of interpretation.
- introspectional — Of or relating to introspection.
- ionospherically — by the ionosphere