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15-letter words containing o, n, e, y

  • benzyl fluoride — a colorless liquid, C 7 H 7 F, used in organic synthesis.
  • beyond question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
  • beyond sb's ken — If something is beyond your ken, you do not have enough knowledge to be able to understand it.
  • beyond the pale — If you think that someone's actions or behaviour are not acceptable, you can say that they are beyond the pale.
  • bicycle touring — the activity of touring on a bicycle
  • bidirectionally — in a bidirectional manner
  • big bang theory — In astronomy the big bang theory is a theory that suggests that the universe was created as a result of an extremely large explosion.
  • biomechanically — from a biomechanical point of view
  • biting housefly — a two-winged fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, having the mouthparts adapted for biting, and commonly a household and stable pest.
  • body mass index — A person's body mass index is a measurement that represents the relationship between their weight and their height.
  • bread and honey — money
  • britneyfication — the effect on clothes and fashions of following the revealing styles favoured by the US pop singer Britney Spears (born 1981)
  • brooklyn bridge — a suspension bridge over the East River, in New York City, connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn: built 1867–84. 5989 feet (1825 meters) long.
  • brooklyn center — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • bucket conveyor — a conveyor consisting of an endless chain with a series of buckets attached at regular intervals, used for moving ore, gravel, grain, or other bulk materials.
  • cache coherency — (storage)   (Or "cache consistency") /kash koh-heer'n-see/ The synchronisation of data in multiple caches such that reading a memory location via any cache will return the most recent data written to that location via any (other) cache. Some parallel processors do not cache accesses to shared memory to avoid the issue of cache coherency. If caches are used with shared memory then some system is required to detect when data in one processor's cache should be discarded or replaced because another processor has updated that memory location. Several such schemes have been devised.
  • cadmean victory — a victory won with great losses to the victors
  • cancel a policy — If you cancel a policy, you terminate a contract of insurance.
  • carcinogenicity — any substance or agent that tends to produce a cancer.
  • carry one's bat — (of an opening batsman) to reach the end of an innings without being dismissed
  • celandine poppy — a poppy, Stylophorum diphyllum, of the east-central U.S., having one pair of deeply lobed leaves and yellow flowers.
  • centrosymmetric — having symmetry with a central point
  • ceylon cinnamon — the aromatic inner bark of any of several East Indian trees belonging to the genus Cinnamonum, of the laurel family, especially the bark of C. zeylanicum (Ceylon cinnamon) used as a spice, or that of C. loureirii (Saigon cinnamon) used in medicine as a cordial and carminative.
  • charles simonyi — (person)   Microsoft programmer, most famously responsible for Hungarian Notation. Simonyi was born in Budapest in 1948, and for more than a decade was senior programmer at Microsoft in Redmond.
  • chimney swallow — another name for common swallow
  • chimney-pot hat — a high silk hat; top hat.
  • cholecystokinin — a hormone secreted by duodenal cells that stimulates the contraction of the gall bladder and secretion of pancreatic enzymes
  • cholinergically — in a cholinergic manner
  • cineangiography — the use of motion-picture recording to trace the passage of dye through blood vessels, for the diagnosis of heart and blood vessel disease
  • cinemicrography — the making of a film through the lens of a microscope
  • cineradiography — the filming of motion pictures through a fluoroscope or x-ray machine.
  • clock frequency — clock rate
  • coenzymatically — from a coenzymatic point of view
  • coinstantaneity — the act of taking place at exactly the same moment
  • collenchymatous — Relating to collenchyma.
  • command economy — In a command economy, business activities and the use of resources are decided by the government, and not by market forces.
  • commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
  • common currency — If you say that an idea or belief has become common currency, you mean it is widely used and accepted.
  • common property — property belonging to all members of a community.
  • communicatively — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
  • community chest — a fund raised by voluntary contribution for local welfare activities
  • company manners — rules of politeness that people, esp children, are supposed to observe in the presence of other people
  • company officer — a captain or lieutenant serving in a company.
  • company pension — a pension scheme run by a company for its employees
  • compassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
  • complementarily — In a complementary manner.
  • complementarity — a state or system that involves complementary components
  • complimentarily — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
  • comprehendingly — In an comprehending manner; knowingly.
  • comprehensively — Something that is done comprehensively is done thoroughly.
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