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15-letter words containing t, a, i, n, s

  • nothingarianism — Beliefs and practices of a nothingarian.
  • nottinghamshire — a county in central England. 854 sq. mi. (2210 sq. km).
  • notwithstanding — in spite of; without being opposed or prevented by: Notwithstanding a brilliant defense, he was found guilty. She went to the game anyway, doctor's orders notwithstanding.
  • 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 testing — the process of carrying out a test on a nuclear weapon to determine effectiveness, etc
  • numismatologist — One versed in numismatology.
  • object distance — the distance between the lens of a camera and an object being photographed.
  • observation car — a railroad passenger car having a lounge or platform from which the scenery can be viewed.
  • observationally — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
  • obsidian dating — a method of dating obsidian artifacts or debitage by calculating how long it has taken to produce a given thickness of a hydration layer within such matter.
  • obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
  • oil-based paint — any paint made with a drying oil or solvent such as linseed
  • oligomerisation — Alternative spelling of oligomerization.
  • on a shoestring — If you do something or make something on a shoestring, you do it using very little money.
  • on the increase — growing, increasing
  • one-night stand — a single performance in one locale, as by a touring theatrical company, before moving on to the next engagement.
  • opencast mining — mining by excavating from the surface
  • opening batsman — a player who bats the first ball in cricket
  • operationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalise.
  • 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.
  • oppositionality — Quality of being oppositional.
  • 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.
  • orchestrational — Of or pertaining to orchestration.
  • outdoorsmanship — a person devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities, as hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping.
  • outstandingness — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
  • over-enthusiasm — absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit; lively interest: He shows marked enthusiasm for his studies.
  • over-estimation — to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like: Don't overestimate the car's trade-in value.
  • over-passionate — having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
  • overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • overstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • oxidation state — the state of an element or ion in a compound with regard to the electrons gained or lost by the element or ion in the reaction that formed the compound, expressed as a positive or negative number indicating the ionic charge of the element or ion.
  • ozark mountains — an eroded plateau in S Missouri, N Arkansas, and NE Oklahoma. Area: about 130 000 sq km (50 000 sq miles)
  • pachymeningitis — inflammation of the dura mater of the brain and spinal cord
  • packing density — a measure of the amount of data that can be held by unit length of a storage medium, such as magnetic tape
  • painter's colic — Pathology. lead poisoning causing intense intestinal pain.
  • palaeomagnetism — the study of the fossil magnetism in rocks, used to determine the past configurations of the continents and to investigate the past shape and magnitude of the earth's magnetic field
  • palaeomagnetist — a student of or expert in palaeomagnetism
  • panophthalmitis — the inflammation of all eye tissue
  • panoramic sight — an artillery sight that can be rotated horizontally in a full circle.
  • pantopragmatics — universal intervention in the affairs of others
  • paralation lisp — Embeds the paralation model in Common LISP. Available from MIT Press, (800)356-0343.
  • paralinguistics — the study of paralanguage.
  • parasiticalness — the condition or characteristic of being parasitic
  • pars intermedia — a small, somewhat cherry-shaped double structure attached by a stalk to the base of the brain and constituting the master endocrine gland affecting all hormonal functions in the body, consisting of an anterior region ((anterior pituitary) or (adenohypophysis)) that develops embryonically from the roof of the mouth and that secretes growth hormone, LH, FSH, ACTH, TSH, and MSH, a posterior region ((posterior pituitary) or (neurohypophysis)) that develops from the back of the forebrain and that secretes the hormones vasopressin and oxytocin, and an intermediate part (pars intermedia) derived from the anterior region but joined to the posterior region, that secretes the hormone MSH in lower vertebrates.
  • parthenogenesis — development of an egg without fertilization.
  • passenger train — railway train that carries people
  • past continuous — past progressive.
  • pastoralization — to make pastoral or rural.
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