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15-letter words containing ian

  • abyssinian gold — Talmi gold.
  • abyssinian well — a perforated pipe driven into the ground for pumping out collected ground water; wellpoint.
  • academicianship — A membership in a national academy of arts or sciences.
  • actinopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Actinopterygii, a group of bony fishes.
  • algerian stripe — a fabric woven with alternate stripes of coarse cotton and silk, usually cream-colored.
  • ambrosian chant — the liturgical chant, established by Saint Ambrose, characterized by ornamented, often antiphonal, singing.
  • american indian — American Indian people or things belong to or come from one of the native peoples of America.
  • anti-malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
  • antichristianly — in an Antichristian manner
  • antiegalitarian — opposing equality
  • antilibertarian — opposed to libertarianism
  • antitrinitarian — rejecting or opposed to the Christian doctrine of the Holy Trinity
  • appalachian tea — any of various plants, as withe rod, whose leaves were used locally for tea in pioneer times
  • appendicularian — of or relating to a family of molluscs (Appendicularia) characterized by their long tail appendages
  • 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.
  • aristotelianism — a philosophical tradition based on the wide-ranging belief system of Aristotle
  • armenian church — the national Church of Armenia, founded in the early fourth century ad, the dogmas and liturgy of which are similar to those of the Orthodox Church
  • asian influenza — pandemic influenza caused by a strain of the influenza virus first isolated in Singapore in 1957
  • asian shorthair — a generic term for a group of breeds of short-haired cat of Burmese type, including the Bombay
  • australian alps — a mountain range in SE Australia, in E Victoria and SE New South Wales. Highest peak: Mount Kosciuszko, 2195 m (7316 ft)
  • australian mist — a breed of medium-sized cat with a short spotted or marbled coat
  • australian pine — casuarina
  • avian influenza — an acute, usually fatal viral disease of chickens and other domestic and wild birds except pigeons, characterized by sudden onset of symptoms including fever, swollen head and neck, bluish-black comb and wattle, and difficult respiration.
  • bacchanalianism — the practice of bacchanalian behaviour; drunken revelry
  • baconian method — induction (def 4a).
  • baconian theory — the theory attributing the authorship of Shakespeare's plays to Francis Bacon.
  • belgian griffon — one of a variety of the Brussels griffon having a black or reddish-brown and black coat.
  • biostatistician — someone who studies or works professionally in the field of biostatistics
  • bohemian forest — a mountain range between the SW Czech Republic and SE Germany. Highest peak: Arber, 1457 m (4780 ft)
  • brazilian guava — a Brazilian shrub, Psidium guineense, of the myrtle family, having white-fleshed, greenish-yellow, bitter fruit.
  • brazilian plume — a tropical American plant, Justicia carnea, of the acanthus family, having hairy, prominently veined leaves and a short, dense cluster of purple or pink flowers, grown in greenhouses or outdoors in warm regions.
  • brownian motion — the irregular motion of small particles suspended in a liquid or a gas, caused by the bombardment of the particles by molecules of the medium: first observed by Robert Brown in 1827.
  • calydonian boar — a savage boar sent by Artemis to destroy Calydon, a city in Aetolia, because its king had neglected to sacrifice to her. It was killed by Meleager, the king's son
  • calydonian hunt — the pursuit by Meleager, Atalanta, and others of a savage boar (Calydonian boar) sent by Artemis to lay waste to Calydon.
  • canadian forces — the official name for the military forces of Canada
  • canadian french — the French language as spoken in Canada, esp in Quebec
  • canadian legion — a national social club for veterans of the Canadian armed services.
  • canadian shield — (in Canada) the wide area of Precambrian rock extending west from the Labrador coast to the basin of the Mackenzie and north from the Great Lakes to Hudson Bay and the Arctic: rich in minerals
  • canadian whisky — a blended whisky made in Canada from rye and other grains
  • canadianization — to make Canadian in character.
  • cartesian diver — a glass vessel partially filled with water and covered with an airtight membrane, containing a hollow object that is open at the bottom and contains just enough air to allow it to float. Pressing on the membrane compresses the air in the vessel and forces water into the object, causing it to sink; releasing the membrane causes it to rise.
  • cartesian doubt — willful suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain: used as a method of deriving, by elimination of such uncertainties, axioms upon which to base theories.
  • cartesian plane — Usually, Cartesian coordinates. a member of a system of coordinates for locating a point on a plane (Cartesian plane) by its distance from each of two intersecting lines, or in space by its distance from each of three planes intersecting at a point.
  • cartesian space — ordinary two- or three-dimensional space.
  • casparian strip — a band of suberized material around the radial walls of endodermal cells: impervious to gases and liquids
  • chesterfieldian — of or like Lord Chesterfield; suave; elegant; polished
  • chiang kai-shek — original name Chiang Chung-cheng, 1887–1975, Chinese general: president of China (1928–31; 1943–49) and of the Republic of China (Taiwan) (1950–75). As chairman of the Kuomintang, he allied with the Communists against the Japanese (1937–45), but in the Civil War that followed was forced to withdraw to Taiwan after his defeat by the Communists (1949)
  • christadelphian — a member of a Christian millenarian sect founded in the US about 1848, holding that only the just will enter eternal life, that the wicked will be annihilated, and that the ignorant, the unconverted, and infants will not be raised from the dead
  • civilianization — the conversion from military to civilian status
  • concert pianist — a person who earns a living from giving solo performances on the piano in front of audiences

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