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15-letter words containing o, p, e, n, a, i

  • interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
  • intraperitoneal — Within the cavity of the peritoneum.
  • introspectional — Of or relating to introspection.
  • ionospherically — by the ionosphere
  • ipod generation — members of the generation of adults born after 1970, who are less financially secure than their parents, due to student debt, high house prices, and job insecurity
  • italian spinone — a strongly-built gun dog with a wiry white coat and pendulous ears
  • juxtapositioned — Simple past tense and past participle of juxtaposition.
  • kommunizma peak — a mountain in SE Tajikistan in the Pamirs: the highest mountain in the former Soviet Union. Height: 7495 m (24 590 ft)
  • land of promise — Promised Land.
  • lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • lex non scripta — unwritten law; common law.
  • lexical scoping — lexical scope
  • 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.
  • limited company — a company in which the shareholders cannot be assessed for debts of the company beyond the sum they still have invested in the company.
  • line of apsides — a line joining the lower and higher apsides, forming the major axis of the orbit
  • linear operator — a mathematical operator with the property that applying it to a linear combination of two objects yields the same linear combination as the result of applying it to the objects separately.
  • linear topology — (theory)   A linear topology on a left A-module M is a topology on M that is invariant under translations and admits a fundamental system of neighborhood of 0 that consists of submodules of M. If there is such a topology, M is said to be linearly topologized. If A is given a discrete topology, then M becomes a topological A-module with respect to a linear topology.
  • lissencephalous — having the cephalic disorder of a lack of developed brain folds
  • liver complaint — an unspecified health problem concerning the liver
  • lobar pneumonia — pneumonia (def 2).
  • long parliament — the Parliament that assembled November 3, 1640, was expelled by Cromwell in 1653, reconvened in 1659, and was dissolved in 1660.
  • lymphocytopenia — (pathology) An abnormally low level of lymphocytes in the blood.
  • macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
  • make a point of — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
  • malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
  • malpresentation — Abnormal positioning of a fetus at the time of delivery.
  • manila envelope — a large, usually brown, envelope, designed to carry documents without them having to be folded
  • measuring spoon — a spoon for measuring amounts, as in cooking, usually part of a set of spoons of different sizes.
  • mechanomorphism — the doctrine that the universe is fully explicable in mechanistic terms.
  • mediastinoscopy — (medicine) A procedure for examining the inside of the mediastinum and the organs it encloses through a small incision, using an endoscope. This is a surgical procedure normally done under general anesthesia.
  • megacorporation — a giant company formed from two or more large companies or a number of companies of various sizes.
  • menispermaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Menispermaceae, a family of mainly tropical and subtropical plants, most of which are woody climbers with small flowers
  • 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.
  • metanitrophenol — any compound derived from phenol by the replacement of one or more of its ring hydrogen atoms by the nitro group.
  • metropolitanate — the office or province of a metropolitan
  • 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.
  • metropolitanize — to make metropolitan.
  • misappreciation — failure to appreciate something fully or properly
  • misapprehension — misunderstanding.
  • montes riphaeus — a mountain range in the third quadrant of the visible face of the moon.
  • morning prayers — early-morning act of religious worship
  • morphine addict — a person who is addicted to the drug morphine
  • mules operation — the surgical removal of folds of skin in the breech of a sheep to reduce blowfly strike
  • napoleonic code — Code Napoléon
  • napoleonic wars — French-led war in early 19th century
  • native compiler — (programming, tool)   A compiler which runs on the computer for which it is producing machine code, in contrast to a cross-compiler, which produces code for a different computer.
  • negative option — a clause in a sales contract, as for a series of books or records, that provides that merchandise will be sent periodically to the subscriber unless he or she notifies the company in writing that it is not wanted.
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