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15-letter words containing s, i, c, l, a, n

  • nonsensicalness — Nonsensicality.
  • nonsolicitation — Being or pertaining to a particular kind of noncompetition agreement that forbids a former employee from attempting to recruit the employer's colleagues or customers.
  • nonspecifically — in a nonspecific way
  • not necessarily — If you reply 'Not necessarily', you mean that what has just been said or suggested may not be true.
  • nova scotia lox — a kind of brine-cured salmon, having either a salt cure (Scandinavian lox) or a sugar cure (Nova Scotia lox) often eaten with cream cheese on a bagel.
  • nuclear fission — fission (def 2).
  • nuclear physics — the branch of physics that deals with the behavior, structure, and component parts of atomic nuclei.
  • nuclear testing — the process of carrying out a test on a nuclear weapon to determine effectiveness, etc
  • nuisance caller — someone who makes an unsolicited telephone call such as a prank call or a call for telemarketing purposes
  • obsidional coin — siege piece.
  • onomasiological — the study of the means of expressing a given concept.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • orchestrational — Of or pertaining to orchestration.
  • organochlorines — Plural form of organochlorine.
  • oval of cassini — the locus of a point such that the product of the distances from the point to two fixed points is constant.
  • overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • pacific islands — a U.S. trust territory in the Pacific Ocean, comprising the Mariana, Marshall, and Caroline Islands: approved by the United Nations 1947; since 1976 constituents of the trusteeship have established or moved toward self-government. 717 sq. mi. (1857 sq. km).
  • painter's colic — Pathology. lead poisoning causing intense intestinal pain.
  • paracel islands — a group of uninhabited islets and reefs in the N South China Sea, the subject of territorial claims by China and Vietnam
  • paralinguistics — the study of paralanguage.
  • parallel cousin — a cousin who is the child either of one's mother's sister or of one's father's brother.
  • parasiticalness — the condition or characteristic of being parasitic
  • phenomenalistic — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
  • physical change — a usually reversible change in the physical properties of a substance, as size or shape: Freezing a liquid is a physical change.
  • physicalization — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • pictorial janus — K. Kahn, Xerox. Visual extension of Janus. Requires Strand88 and a PostScript interpreter.
  • pitcairn island — a small British island in the S Pacific, SE of Tuamotu Archipelago: settled 1790 by mutineers of the Bounty. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
  • pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
  • plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
  • planet-stricken — believed to be adversely affected mentally or physically by the planets
  • plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • plate tectonics — a theory of global tectonics in which the lithosphere is divided into a number of crustal plates, each of which moves on the plastic asthenosphere more or less independently to collide with, slide under, or move past adjacent plates.
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
  • policy issuance — Policy issuance is the process of creating an insurance policy and providing it to the policyholder.
  • polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
  • pontifical mass — (sometimes lowercase) Roman Catholic Church. a High Mass celebrated by a bishop or other prelate.
  • postinoculation — the act or process of inoculating.
  • practical nurse — a person who has not graduated from an accredited school of nursing but whose vocation is caring for the sick.
  • pragmaticalness — the quality of being pragmatical or meddlesome
  • prejudicialness — the trait of being prejudicial
  • presynaptically — in a presynaptic manner
  • prince of wales — Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
  • prince's island — former name of Príncipe.
  • principal focus — focal point (def 1).
  • principal parts — a set of inflected forms of a form class from which all the other inflected forms can be derived, as sing, sang, sung; smoke, smoked.
  • prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
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