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15-letter words containing t, o, n, e, y

  • ethylene glycol — a colorless, viscous liquid, HOCH2CH2OH, used as an antifreeze, as a solvent, in resins, etc.
  • excommunicatory — Relating to excommunication.
  • extended memory — (storage)   Memory above the first megabyte of address space in an IBM PC with an 80286 or later processor. Extended memory is not directly available in real mode, only through EMS, UMB, XMS, or HMA; only applications executing in protected mode can use extended memory directly. In this case, the extended memory is provided by a supervising protected-mode operating system such as Microsoft Windows. The processor makes this memory available through a system of global descriptor tables and local descriptor tables. The memory is "protected" in the sense that memory assigned a local descriptor cannot be accessed by another program without causing a hardware trap. This prevents programs running in protected mode from interfering with each other's memory. A protected-mode operating system such as Windows can also run real-mode programs and provide expanded memory to them. DOS Protected Mode Interface is Microsoft's prescribed method for an MS-DOS program to access extended memory under a multitasking environment. Having extended memory does not necessarily mean that you have more than one megabyte of memory since the reserved memory area may be partially empty. In fact, if your 386 or higher uses extended memory as expanded memory then that part is not in excess of 1Mb. See also conventional memory.
  • external memory — (storage)   A vague term for slower, non-volatile storage, usually magnetic disk, in contrast to main memory which is usually volatile semiconductor RAM.
  • extradictionary — (obsolete) Consisting not of words but of realities.
  • extraordinarily — In an extraordinary manner.
  • eye examination — an eye test
  • factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
  • fair employment — the policy or practice of employing people on the basis of their capabilities only, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.
  • family skeleton — a closely guarded family secret
  • fauntleroy suit — a formal outfit for a boy composed of a hip-length jacket and knee-length pants, often in black velvet, and a wide, lacy collar and cuffs, usually worn with a broad sash at the waist and sometimes a large, loose bow at the neck, popular in the late 19th century.
  • fly-on-the-wall — A fly-on-the-wall documentary is made by filming people as they do the things they normally do, rather than by interviewing them or asking them to talk directly to the camera.
  • flying fortress — a heavy bomber, the B-17, with four radial piston engines, widely used over Europe and the Mediterranean by the U.S. Air Force in World War II.
  • food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
  • food technology — a branch of technology that is involved in the production of food
  • for a certainty — without doubt
  • fortysomethings — Plural form of fortysomething.
  • fountain valley — a city in SW California.
  • fountains abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Ripon in Yorkshire: founded 1132, dissolved 1539; landscaped 1720
  • frontal cyclone — any extratropical cyclone associated with a front: the most common cyclonic storm.
  • full employment — all of workforce is employed
  • gated community — a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.
  • gene technology — manipulation of DNA
  • geomagnetically — In a geomagnetic way; through geomagnetism.
  • geotectonically — from a geotectonic point of view
  • get any good of — to handle to good effect
  • governmentality — (sociology) The organized practices (mentalities, rationalities, and techniques) through which subjects are governed and influenced.
  • grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • great synagogue — (according to Jewish tradition) a council of 120 members, established by Ezra, that directed the Jews chiefly in religious matters, c450–c200 b.c., and made significant contributions to the Jewish liturgy and Bible.
  • greenbottle fly — any of several metallic-green blowflies, as Phaenicia sericata.
  • griffith-joyner — Florence, known as Flojo. 1959–98, US sprinter, winner of two gold medals at the 1988 Olympic Games
  • hay conditioner — either of two machines, one designed to crush stems of hay, the other to break and bend them, in order to cause more rapid and even drying
  • heliocentricity — measured or considered as being seen from the center of the sun.
  • hemadynamometer — An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury.
  • hematoporphyrin — a porphyrin made by treating haemoglobin with acid, used to treat cancer in photodynamic therapy
  • hemicraniectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of half of the cranium to enable brain surgery; hemicraniotomy.
  • heterogeneously — different in kind; unlike; incongruous.
  • high technology — any technology requiring the most sophisticated scientific equipment and advanced engineering techniques, as microelectronics, data processing, genetic engineering, or telecommunications (opposed to low technology).
  • holocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having only crystalline components and no glass
  • honey tangerine — a citrus fruit with a deep-orange pulp, formed by crossing a tangerine and a sweet orange hybrid; Murcott
  • honeycomb tripe — a part of the inner lining of the stomach of the steer, calf, hog, or sheep, resembling a honeycomb in appearance and considered a table delicacy.
  • honeymoon suite — a luxurious suite in a hotel designed for honeymooners
  • hype-carbonated — (of a product or service) overvalued as a result of relentless marketing and PR or intensive media exposure
  • hyper-emotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
  • hyperactivation — (biology) A form of sperm motility associated with active beating of the flagellum.
  • hypercorrection — the substitution, in an inappropriate context, of a pronunciation, grammatical form, or usage thought by the speaker or writer to be appropriate, resulting usually from overgeneralizing in an effort to replace seemingly incorrect forms with correct ones, as the substitution of between you and I for between you and me, by analogy with you and I as the subject of a sentence.
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • hyperinvolution — a decrease in the size of an organ following enlargement, usually used to describe the shrinking of the uterus after childbirth
  • hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
  • hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
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