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

  • antiprogressive — opposed to or acting against progression in society
  • antispeculation — opposed to or acting against excessive oil speculation
  • apartment block — building: flats, apartments
  • apartment hotel — a hotel that rents furnished apartments or suites suitable for housekeeping, on a weekly or more permanent basis, and usually supplies all hotel services.
  • apartment house — a building containing a number of residential apartments.
  • apolipoproteins — Plural form of apolipoprotein.
  • apostolicalness — The state or quality of being apostolical.
  • apple macintosh — Macintosh
  • apprentice work — work done when young and a novice
  • appropriateness — suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.: an appropriate example; an appropriate dress.
  • approximateness — The quality of being approximate.
  • armaments depot — a store for armaments
  • armour-piercing — capable of penetrating armour plate
  • arms inspection — the official checking of a country's weapons and other military equipment, usually to check that international agreements have been respected
  • assemblypersons — Plural form of assemblyperson.
  • at the point of — very close to; on the verge of
  • audio equipment — electrical devices used to play or record sound
  • back projection — a method of projecting pictures onto a translucent screen so that they are viewed from the opposite side, used esp in films to create the illusion that the actors in the foreground are moving
  • balloon payment — a large payment that concludes a series of smaller payments, for example in order to repay a loan
  • ballpoint (pen) — a pen having, instead of a point, a small ball bearing that picks up its ink by rolling against an interior ink reservoir
  • bandstop filter — A bandstop filter is a filter designed to eliminate all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • bear comparison — to be sufficiently similar in class or range to be compared with (something else), esp favourably
  • beat oneself up — to reproach oneself
  • ben day process — a method of adding texture, shading, or detail to line drawings by overlaying a transparent sheet of dots or any other pattern during platemaking
  • beyond the pale — If you think that someone's actions or behaviour are not acceptable, you can say that they are beyond the pale.
  • bit-mapped font — a computer font whose characters are held in memory as series of dots.
  • black operation — a covert and undocumented military operation
  • bladder campion — a European caryophyllaceous plant, Silene vulgaris, having white flowers with an inflated calyx
  • blasphemousness — the quality of being blasphemous
  • blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
  • bowel complaint — bowel disease or condition
  • break-in period — a period during which certain restrictions or moderation in operating should be followed, as the avoidance of high speed, rapid acceleration, or severe braking for a new automobile.
  • breakeven point — a point at which the total revenue and total cost are equal
  • breaking plough — a plough with a long shallow mouldboard for turning virgin land or sod land
  • brompheniramine — a substance, C 16 H 19 BrN 2 , used as an antihistamine in the management of various allergies, as hay fever.
  • camp counsellor — an adult supervisor assigned to a group of campers at a summer camp
  • campaign worker — a person who carries out duties for a political candidate or party, esp before an election
  • cancel a policy — If you cancel a policy, you terminate a contract of insurance.
  • cannot help but — to be unable to do anything else except
  • cape horn fever — illness feigned by malingerers.
  • capital offence — a crime for which the death penalty is used
  • car transporter — a vehicle for carrying automobiles
  • cast a spell on — to put into, or as into, a trance
  • cast aspersions — If you cast aspersions on someone or something, you suggest that they are not very good in some way.
  • castanospermine — a substance obtained from the Australian chestnut or black bean tree
  • castner process — a process for extracting sodium from sodium hydroxide, devised by Hamilton Young Castner (1858–98)
  • celandine poppy — a poppy, Stylophorum diphyllum, of the east-central U.S., having one pair of deeply lobed leaves and yellow flowers.
  • chairpersonship — a person who presides over a meeting, committee, board, etc.
  • chandler period — the period of the oscillation (Chandler wobble) of the earth's axis, varying between 416 and 433 days.
  • channel hopping — (chat)   To rapidly switch channels on IRC, or a GEnie chat board. This term may derive from the TV idiom, "channel surfing".
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