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15-letter words containing p, i, l, o, n, d

  • duplicitousness — The state or condition of being duplicitous.
  • edriophthalmian — edriophthalmous
  • encyclopaedical — Of or pertaining to encyclopaediae.
  • encyclopedicity — The quality or state of being encyclopedic.
  • endolymphangial — (anatomy) Within a lymphatic vessel.
  • epichlorohydrin — an organic compound used as a solvent in resin-making
  • epsilon squared — (jargon)   A quantity even smaller than epsilon, as small in comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal; completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars, the cost of the thousand-dollar terminal to go with it is epsilon, and the cost of the ten-dollar cable to connect them is epsilon squared. Compare lost in the underflow, lost in the noise.
  • expulsion order — a legal document ordering someone's expulsion
  • gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
  • golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • holding company — a company that controls other companies through stock ownership but that usually does not engage directly in their productive operations (distinguished from parent company).
  • holding paddock — a paddock in which cattle or sheep are kept temporarily, as before shearing, etc
  • holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
  • hypochondriacal — Also, hypochondriacal, H05/H0509000 hahy-poh-kuh n-drahy-uh-kuh l, ˌhaɪ poʊ kənˈdraɪ ə kəl. Psychiatry. pertaining to or suffering from hypochondria, an excessive preoccupation with and worry about one's health: The comedy is aimed at the hypochondriac demographic. produced by hypochondria: Hypochondriac feelings overwhelmed her.
  • hypolydian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from C to C, with the final on F.
  • implied consent — a manifestation of consent to something through conduct, including inaction or silence.
  • imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
  • in pari delicto — in equal fault; equally culpable or blameworthy.
  • land of promise — Promised Land.
  • lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
  • 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
  • loading program — a series of instructions entered automatically in a program that starts the processing.
  • macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
  • malpighian body — Also called kidney corpuscle, Malpighian body. the structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule.
  • mitotic spindle — spindle (def 11).
  • municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • napoleonic code — Code Napoléon
  • non-capitalized — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
  • non-depreciable — capable of depreciating or being depreciated in value.
  • non-duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
  • nondisciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
  • nonhospitalized — not hospitalized
  • nonprecedential — Not precedential.
  • nonreproducible — Unable to be reproduced; not reproducible.
  • oil-based paint — any paint made with a drying oil or solvent such as linseed
  • old age pension — An old age pension is a regular amount of money that people receive from the government when they have retired from work.
  • open-pollinated — (of a flower) pollinated without human agency.
  • operationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalise.
  • operationalized — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalize.
  • opposition hold — a particular way of holding rock in mountain-climbing
  • ornithodelphian — of or relating to mammals of the class Ornithodelphia
  • ozone depletion — harmful effects to the ozone layer
  • paedophile ring — a group of people who take part in illegal sexual activity involving children
  • palindromically — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
  • payment holiday — a break taken from paying ( a debt etc) back
  • pelargonic acid — a colorless, oily, water-immiscible liquid, C 9 H 1 8 O 2 , occurring as an ester in a volatile oil in species of pelargonium: used chiefly in organic synthesis and in the manufacture of lacquers and plastics.
  • peroxide blonde — You can refer to a woman whose hair has been artificially been made lighter in colour as a peroxide blonde, especially when you want to show that you disapprove of this, or that you think her hair looks unnatural or unattractive.
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