15-letter words containing io
- annihilationism — the teaching or principle that trespassers and evildoers are completely destroyed rather than made to suffer in hell after death
- annihilationist — A person who believes that eternal punishment is the annihilation of both the body and the soul.
- anteprohibition — before prohibition.
- anteroposterior — Relating to or directed toward both front and back.
- anthropobiology — the biological study of the human species
- anti-corruption — the act of corrupting or state of being corrupt.
- anti-revolution — an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
- antiabortionist — An antiabortionist is someone who wants to limit or prevent the legal availability of abortions.
- anticardiolipin — (medicine, immunology) Directed against cardiolipin.
- anticoagulation — (medicine) Acting to combat or prevent coagulation of blood.
- antieducational — opposing the provision of knowledge
- antifashionable — not conforming to mainstream fashion
- antinationalist — a person who is opposed to nationalism
- antirationalism — the opposition to rationalism
- antirationalist — opposed to rationalism
- antirationality — the opposition to rationality
- antisegregation — opposed to or acting against segregration
- antispeculation — opposed to or acting against excessive oil speculation
- antitraditional — opposed to or acting with disregard for tradition
- antivivisection — opposed to the act or practice or performing experiments on living animals, involving cutting into or dissecting the body
- appropinquation — the action of approaching
- arbitration bar — a bar of cast iron used as a sample for the batch to which it belongs.
- arc de triomphe — the triumphal arch in Paris begun by Napoleon I to commemorate his victories of 1805–6 and completed in 1836
- arms inspection — the official checking of a country's weapons and other military equipment, usually to check that international agreements have been respected
- arterialization — to convert (venous blood) into arterial blood by the action of oxygen in the lungs.
- assimilationism — the theory of promoting the incorporation and mixing of different groups in society
- assimilationist — a person who favours and promotes the incorporation and mixing of different groups in society
- association law — any law governing the association of ideas
- astrobiologists — Plural form of astrobiologist.
- astronavigation — celestial navigation
- atrabiliousness — The state or quality of being characterized by melancholy or glumness.
- audio equipment — electrical devices used to play or record sound
- audio frequency — a frequency in the range 20 hertz to 20 000 hertz. A sound wave of this frequency would be audible to the human ear
- audio recording — an electronic recording of sound
- authentications — Plural form of authentication.
- autobiographers — Plural form of autobiographer.
- autobiographies — Plural form of autobiography.
- autocollimation — the process used in an autocollimator.
- autocorrelation — the condition occurring when successive items in a series are correlated so that their covariance is not zero and they are not independent
- autoinoculation — the inoculation of microorganisms (esp viruses) from one part of the body into another, usually in the form of a vaccine
- autoradiographs — Plural form of autoradiograph.
- autoradiography — the technique or process of making autoradiographs.
- autotransfusion — a process in which a patient receives some of his or her own blood in a transfusion rather than a donor's blood
- axiom of choice — the axiom of set theory that given any collection of disjoint sets, a set can be so constructed that it contains one element from each of the given sets.
- back projection — a method of projecting pictures onto a translucent screen so that they are viewed from the opposite side, used esp in films to create the illusion that the actors in the foreground are moving
- backup rotation — (operating system) Any system for re-using backup media, e.g. magnetic tape. One extreme would be to use the same media for every backup (e.g. copy disk A to disk B), the other extreme would be to use new media every time. The trade-off is between the cost of buying and storing media and the ability to restore any version of any file. One example is the Grandfather, Father, Son (GFS) scheme.
- bacteriological — Of or relating to bacteriology or bacteria.
- bacteriophagous — Pertaining to the predation and consumption of bacterium.
- ball ammunition — live small-arms ammunition
- bar examination — a written examination to determine if one is qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction.