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

  • nonpsychiatrist — a person who is not a psychiatrist
  • nonpsychoactive — Not psychoactive.
  • nonreproducible — Unable to be reproduced; not reproducible.
  • nonreproductive — Not able to reproduce; sterile.
  • nonsaponifiable — not capable of being saponified
  • nonspecifically — in a nonspecific way
  • nonstereoscopic — Not stereoscopic.
  • northern paiute — a member of an American Indian people of Nevada, Oregon, and California, allied to the Paiute.
  • nucleophilicity — (uncountable) The condition of being nucleophilic.
  • null hypothesis — (in the statistical testing of a hypothesis) the hypothesis to be tested.
  • nullarbor plain — a treeless, semiarid area of S Australia, contiguous to the Great Australian Bight.
  • odd permutation — a permutation of a set of n elements, x 1 , x 2 , …, xn, which permutes the product of all differences of the form (xi – xj), where i is less than j, into the negative of the product.
  • offset printing — offset (def 6).
  • oil tanker pier — An oil tanker pier is a structure over water where oil tankers can stop and load or unload.
  • 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.
  • on prescription — If a medicine is available on prescription, you can only get it from a chemist or pharmacist if a doctor gives you a prescription for it.
  • on the point of — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
  • onychocryptosis — a form of nail disease in which nails are ingrown
  • open admissions — a policy of admitting applicants to an institution, especially a university, regardless of previous academic record or grades.
  • open convention — a party convention at which delegates are free to vote for the candidate of their choice.
  • open university — higher education by correspondence
  • open-cut mining — mining by excavating from the surface
  • open-pit mining — a method of mining, usually for metallic ores, in which the waste and ore are completely removed from the sides and bottom of a pit which gradually becomes an enormous canyonlike hole
  • open-pollinated — (of a flower) pollinated without human agency.
  • opencast mining — mining by excavating from the surface
  • opening balance — the amount of money in an account at the start of an accounting period
  • opening batsman — a player who bats the first ball in cricket
  • operating cycle — the period of time between starting a business and making a profit
  • operating table — table on which surgery is performed
  • operationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalise.
  • operationalized — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalize.
  • operations room — a room from which all the operations of a military, police, or other disciplined activity are controlled
  • opinionatedness — The state or condition of being opinionated.
  • opisthognathous — having receding jaws.
  • opposite number — counterpart; equivalent: New members with an interest in folk art will find their opposite numbers in the association's directory.
  • opposition hold — a particular way of holding rock in mountain-climbing
  • oppositionality — Quality of being oppositional.
  • opprobriousness — The state or condition of being opprobrious.
  • optical printer — a film printer used in making optical effects, consisting basically of a camera that photographs the image with special lenses to enlarge, reduce, distort, etc., and a projector that transfers the image to the print stock, as distinguished from a contact printer.
  • optical pumping — a method for increasing the number of atoms or molecules occupying higher energy levels by irradiating them with light of the proper frequencies to raise them to those levels.
  • optical scanner — the process of interpreting data in printed, handwritten, bar-code, or other visual form by a device (optical scanner or reader) that scans and identifies the data.
  • optical tooling — the technique of establishing precise reference lines and planes by means of telescopic sights, especially for the purpose of aligning machinery, machine-shop work, etc.
  • optoelectronics — the branch of electronics dealing with devices that generate, transform, transmit, or sense optical, infrared, or ultraviolet radiation, as cathode-ray tubes, electroluminescent and liquid crystal displays, lasers, and solar cells.
  • opus anglicanum — fine embroidery, esp of church vestments, produced in England c.1200–c.1350; characterized by the rich materials used, esp silver gilt thread
  • oriental carpet — Oriental rug.
  • ornithodelphian — of or relating to mammals of the class Ornithodelphia
  • orphaned i-node — (operating system)   /or'f*nd i:'nohd/ [Unix] 1. A file that retains storage but no longer appears in the directories of a file system.
  • out in the open — knowledge: public
  • outdoorsmanship — a person devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities, as hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping.
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