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15-letter words containing r, e, l, t, o

  • appellate court — In the United States, an appellate court is a special court where people who have been convicted of a crime can appeal against their conviction.
  • architectonical — Alternative form of architectonic.
  • aristotelianism — a philosophical tradition based on the wide-ranging belief system of Aristotle
  • arterialization — to convert (venous blood) into arterial blood by the action of oxygen in the lungs.
  • articles of war — the disciplinary and legal procedures by which the naval and military forces of Great Britain were bound before the 19th century
  • asiatic cholera — cholera (def 1).
  • at the controls — If someone is at the controls of a machine or other piece of equipment, they are operating it.
  • atherosclerosis — a degenerative disease of the arteries characterized by patchy thickening of the inner lining of the arterial walls, caused by deposits of fatty material; a form of arteriosclerosis
  • atherosclerotic — Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with atherosclerosis.
  • athletic sports — sports, esp track and field events, in which athleticism is required
  • atmospherically — pertaining to, existing in, or consisting of the atmosphere: atmospheric vapors.
  • atrabiliousness — The state or quality of being characterized by melancholy or glumness.
  • attorney-at-law — a lawyer qualified to represent in court a party to a legal action
  • auditor general — (in Canada) a federal official responsible for auditing government departments and making an annual report
  • authoritatively — having due authority; having the sanction or weight of authority: an authoritative opinion.
  • autocorrelation — the condition occurring when successive items in a series are correlated so that their covariance is not zero and they are not independent
  • autocorrelative — Relating to autocorrelation.
  • autofluorescent — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting autofluorescence.
  • automatic rifle — a type of light machine gun capable of firing automatically or in single shots.
  • autotetraploidy — the generation of the tetraploid state, created by the fusing of two nuclei from the same species
  • aviator glasses — sunglasses that look like goggles
  • bacterial ghost — a bacterial cell that is emptied and filled artificially with another substance
  • bacteriological — Of or relating to bacteriology or bacteria.
  • balance control — a state of equilibrium or equipoise; equal distribution of weight, amount, etc.
  • bandstop filter — A bandstop filter is a filter designed to eliminate all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • bathroom scales — scales typically kept in a bathroom for people to weigh themselves
  • beet leafhopper — a small leafhopper (Circulifer tenellus) that transmits a very destructive virus to sugar beets
  • beetroot purple — a deep purple-red; a purple pigment derived from beets.
  • bello horizonte — a city in SE Brazil.
  • benedict arnold — Benedict, 1741–1801, American general in the Revolutionary War who became a traitor.
  • bernoulli trial — one of a sequence of independent experiments each of which has the same probability of success, such as successive throws of a die, the outcome of which is described by a binomial distribution
  • bicycle touring — the activity of touring on a bicycle
  • bidirectionally — in a bidirectional manner
  • biodestructible — biodegradable
  • black operation — a covert and undocumented military operation
  • black snakeroot — a tall bugbane, Cimicifuga racemosa, of the buttercup family, of eastern North America, having thin, tapering, toothed or deeply cut leaflets and branched clusters of small, white flowers.
  • blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
  • bloody butchers — a hardy plant, Trillium sessile, common from New York to Georgia and westward, having stalkless, purple or green flowers.
  • 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.
  • blue wood aster — a composite plant, Aster cordifolius, of North America, having heart-shaped leaves and pale-blue flowers.
  • board of health — an agency with responsibility for health in state, country, etc
  • break the mould — If you say that someone breaks the mould, you mean that they do completely different things from what has been done before or from what is usually done.
  • bring into line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
  • bristol channel — an inlet of the Atlantic, between S Wales and SW England, merging into the Severn estuary. Length: about 137 km (85 miles)
  • british telecom — the popular name for British Telecommunications Group plc, the dominant fixed line telecommunications and broadband internet provider in the United Kingdom
  • bronchial tubes — the bronchi or their smaller divisions
  • brooklyn center — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • brownfield site — a disused site envisaged for redevelopment
  • brussels sprout — Brussels sprouts are vegetables that look like tiny cabbages.
  • bucket elevator — a chain of buckets for raising liquids or materials to a higher level
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