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15-letter words containing s

  • antivivisection — opposed to the act or practice or performing experiments on living animals, involving cutting into or dissecting the body
  • anybody's guess — a person of some importance: If you're anybody, you'll receive an invitation.
  • aortic stenosis — abnormal narrowing of the aorta, especially of its orifice, usually as a result of rheumatic fever or embryologic anomalies.
  • apartment house — a building containing a number of residential apartments.
  • apical meristem — meristem at the apex of a root or shoot.
  • aplastic anemia — a form of anemia resulting from a failure of the bone marrow to produce adequate quantities of the essential blood components, including leukocytes and platelets
  • apolipoproteins — Plural form of apolipoprotein.
  • apollo asteroid — one of a number of asteroids whose orbits cross that of the earth.
  • apophthegmatise — to speak in apophthegms
  • apophthegmatist — a person who creates apophthegms
  • apostle pitcher — a stoneware pitcher decorated in relief with figures of the apostles.
  • apostles' creed — a concise statement of Christian beliefs dating from about 500 ad, traditionally ascribed to the Apostles
  • apostolic vicar — vicar apostolic.
  • apostolicalness — The state or quality of being apostolical.
  • apostrophically — (rhetoric) Using apostrophe; with sudden exclamatory dialogue.
  • apple macintosh — Macintosh
  • applesoft basic — (language)   A version of BASIC for Apple computers.
  • apprenticeships — Plural form of apprenticeship.
  • approach lights — lights on the runway that guide planes coming in to land
  • appropriateness — suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.: an appropriate example; an appropriate dress.
  • approved school — In Britain in the past, an approved school was a boarding school where young people could be sent to stay if they had been found guilty of a crime.
  • approximateness — The quality of being approximate.
  • aqueous ammonia — ammonia (def 2).
  • aqueous-ammonia — a colorless, pungent, suffocating, highly water-soluble, gaseous compound, NH 3 , usually produced by the direct combination of nitrogen and hydrogen gases: used chiefly for refrigeration and in the manufacture of commercial chemicals and laboratory reagents.
  • arabian jasmine — a climbing shrub, Jasminum sambac, of India, having hairy branches and very fragrant white flowers that turn purple with age, used in making jasmine tea; sampaguita.
  • arabic numerals — the figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and the 0 (zero) that originated in India; Hindu-Arabic numerals
  • archaeastronomy — (astronomy, archaeology) The historical, especially archeological, study of astronomy; the study of the astronomical systems and methods of ancient cultures often embracing the astrology and cosmology of the past.
  • archaeobotanist — A person engaged in archaeobotany.
  • archeoastronomy — the branch of archaeology that deals with the apparent use by prehistoric civilizations of astronomical techniques to establish the seasons or the cycle of the year, especially as evidenced in the construction of megaliths and other ritual structures.
  • archiepiscopacy — a form of church government in which power is vested in archbishops.
  • archiepiscopate — the rank, office, or term of office of an archbishop
  • ariboflavinosis — a condition resulting from a dietary deficiency of riboflavin
  • aristotelianism — a philosophical tradition based on the wide-ranging belief system of Aristotle
  • armaments depot — a store for armaments
  • armes parlantes — arms using devices to illustrate the name of the bearers, such as a rose and a wall to illustrate the name Rosewall
  • arms inspection — the official checking of a country's weapons and other military equipment, usually to check that international agreements have been respected
  • army air forces — a unit comprising almost all aviation, with its personnel, equipment, etc.: it became part of the Air Force on July 26, 1947.
  • army-navy store — a retail store selling a stock of surplus army, naval, and other military apparel and goods, often at bargain rates.
  • array processor — (processor)   (Or "vector processor") A computer, or extension to its arithmetic unit, that is capable of performing simultaneous computations on elements of an array or table of data in some number of dimensions. The IBM AltiVec (the "Velocity Engine" used in the Apple G4 computers) is a vector processor. Common uses for array processors include analysis of fluid dynamics and rotation of 3d objects, as well as data retrieval, in which elements of a database are scanned simultaneously. Array processors are very rare now (1998).
  • arrest judgment — to stay proceedings after a verdict, on the grounds of error or possible error
  • arrivals lounge — a waiting area for people meeting passengers
  • arrondissements — Plural form of arrondissement.
  • arthur brisbane — Arthur, 1864–1936, U.S. journalist.
  • articles of war — the disciplinary and legal procedures by which the naval and military forces of Great Britain were bound before the 19th century
  • artificialness' — made by human skill; produced by humans (opposed to natural): artificial flowers.
  • arts and crafts — decorative handicraft and design, esp that of the Arts and Crafts movement, in late nineteenth-century Britain, which sought to revive medieval craftsmanship
  • as best one can — If someone does something as best they can, they do it as well as they can, although it is very difficult.
  • as good as gold — excellent; very good indeed
  • as often as not — If you say that something happens as often as not, or more often than not, you mean that it happens fairly frequently, and that this can be considered as typical of the kind of situation you are talking about.
  • as you go along — If you do something as you go along, you do it while you are doing another thing, without preparing it beforehand.
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