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