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

  • summary offence — an offence that is triable in a magistrates' court
  • tatra mountains — a mountain range along the border between Slovakia and Poland, extending for about 64 km (40 miles): the highest range of the central Carpathians. Highest peak: Gerlachovka, 2663 m (8737 ft)
  • teamsters union — the unofficial name of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America.
  • temerariousness — the state or condition of being audacious
  • terminator seed — a seed that produces sterile plants, used in some genetically modified crops so that a new supply of seeds has to be bought every year
  • tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
  • the smart money — If you say that the smart money is on a particular person or thing, you mean that people who know a lot about it think that this person will be successful, or this thing will happen.
  • tirso de molina — Luis [loo-ees] /luˈis/ (Show IPA), 1535–1600, Spanish Jesuit theologian.
  • to err is human — If you say that to err is human, you mean that it is natural for human beings to make mistakes.
  • to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
  • totalitarianism — the practices and principles of a totalitarian regime.
  • transform fault — a strike-slip fault that offsets a mid-ocean ridge in opposing directions on either side of an axis of seafloor spreading.
  • transition team — a group of people who manage the transition between one system, administrative regime, etc and another
  • transmissometer — an instrument for measuring visibility or the transmission of light in the atmosphere.
  • trout fisherman — a fisherman who catches trout
  • trypanosomiasis — any infection caused by a trypanosome.
  • twist one's arm — to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
  • ultra-modernist — very advanced in ideas, design, or techniques.
  • uncompromisable — that cannot or should not be compromised
  • undemonstrative — not given to open exhibition or expression of emotion, especially of affection.
  • undercompensate — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
  • underestimation — to estimate at too low a value, rate, or the like.
  • universal motor — a series-wound motor, of one-half horsepower or less, using alternating or direct current.
  • unsportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
  • upperclasswoman — An upperclasswoman is a junior or senior student in a high school, college, or university.
  • ust-kamenogorsk — a city in E Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
  • vernier compass — a compass on a transit (vernier transit) having a vernier for adjusting magnetic bearings to read as true bearings.
  • waddesdon manor — a mansion near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire: built (1880–89) in the French style for the Rothschild family: noted for its furnishings and collections of porcelain and paintings
  • x-ray astronomy — the branch of astronomy that studies celestial objects by means of the x-rays emitted by them.
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