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15-letter words containing o, r, s, m

  • bathroom scales — scales typically kept in a bathroom for people to weigh themselves
  • bear comparison — to be sufficiently similar in class or range to be compared with (something else), esp favourably
  • bedroom slipper — a soft shoe worn in the house
  • before the mast — as an apprentice seaman
  • binomial series — an infinite series obtained by expanding a binomial raised to a power that is not a positive integer.
  • biogeochemistry — the science of biological, chemical, and geological aspects of the environment
  • 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.
  • bohemian forest — a mountain range between the SW Czech Republic and SE Germany. Highest peak: Arber, 1457 m (4780 ft)
  • boston marriage — (especially in 19th-century New England) an intimate friendship between two women often maintaining a household together.
  • boston massacre — an outbreak (1770) in Boston against British troops, in which a few citizens were killed
  • brachystomatous — having a short proboscis, as certain insects.
  • british telecom — the popular name for British Telecommunications Group plc, the dominant fixed line telecommunications and broadband internet provider in the United Kingdom
  • broadcast storm — (networking)   A broadcast on a network that causes multiple hosts to respond by broadcasting themselves, causing the storm to grow exponentially in severity. See network meltdown.
  • bromoil process — a process for making an offset reproduction by first making a photographic print on paper with a silver bromide emulsion, wetting it, and then using it as a lithographic plate, the lighter parts of the emulsion tending to repel the oil base of the ink and the darker parts tending to hold it.
  • brother-in-arms — a fellow soldier or comrade in a shared struggle
  • bulimia nervosa — a disorder characterized by compulsive overeating followed by vomiting: sometimes associated with anxiety about gaining weight
  • bureau of mines — a division of the Department of the Interior, created in 1910, that studies the nation's mineral resources and inspects mines.
  • butcher's-broom — a liliaceous evergreen shrub, Ruscus aculeatus, that has stiff prickle-tipped flattened green stems, which resemble and function as true leaves. The plant was formerly used for making brooms
  • button mushroom — Button mushrooms are small mushrooms used in cooking.
  • cairngorm-stone — smoky quartz.
  • camp counsellor — an adult supervisor assigned to a group of campers at a summer camp
  • carcinosarcomas — Plural form of carcinosarcoma.
  • carpometacarpus — a bone in the wing of a bird that consists of the metacarpal bones and some of the carpal bones fused together
  • cassette memory — a removable magnetic tape cartridge that stores data and programs.
  • castanospermine — a substance obtained from the Australian chestnut or black bean tree
  • casters-up mode — [IBM, probably from slang belly up] Yet another synonym for "broken" or "down". Usually connotes a major failure. A system (hardware or software) which is "down" may be already being restarted before the failure is noticed, whereas one which is "casters up" is usually a good excuse to take the rest of the day off (as long as you're not responsible for fixing it).
  • castrametations — Plural form of castrametation.
  • centrosymmetric — having symmetry with a central point
  • ceremoniousness — The state of being ceremonious.
  • chamber counsel — a counsel who advises in private and does not plead in court
  • chamois leather — soft cleaning cloth
  • chanson d'amour — love song.
  • charles coulomb — Charles Augustin de [sharl oh-gy-stan duh] /ʃarl oʊ güˈstɛ̃ də/ (Show IPA), 1736–1806, French physicist and inventor.
  • 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.
  • charm offensive — If you say that someone has launched a charm offensive, you disapprove of the fact that they are being very friendly to their opponents or people who are causing problems for them.
  • chemoautotrophs — Plural form of chemoautotroph.
  • chemopsychiatry — the study and application of chemical substances in psychiatry
  • chemosterilants — Plural form of chemosterilant.
  • children's home — care institution for minors
  • cholesterolemia — the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the blood.
  • chondrosarcomas — Plural form of chondrosarcoma.
  • christmas carol — a joyful hymn or religious song, celebrating the birth of Christ
  • chromatic scale — a twelve-note scale including all the semitones of the octave
  • chromosome band — any of the transverse bands that appear on a chromosome after staining. The banding pattern is unique to each type of chromosome, allowing characterization
  • cigarette smoke — the acrid smoke produced by cigarettes being smoked
  • circumambagious — in a round-about manner
  • circumforaneous — moving around or abroad; roaming from place to place
  • circumincession — the reciprocal existence within the three members of the Trinity
  • circumlocutions — Plural form of circumlocution.
  • circumlocutious — Circumlocutional.
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