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15-letter words containing orn

  • a hornet's nest — If you say that someone has stirred up a hornet's nest, you mean that they have done something which has caused a lot of argument or trouble.
  • airborne attack — an attack involving airborne troops
  • alder buckthorn — a Eurasian rhamnaceous shrub, Frangula alnus, with small greenish flowers and black berry-like fruits
  • alta california — a former Spanish colony of New Spain, in the modern-day states of California, Nevada, and N Arizona: ceded by Mexico to the United States 1848.
  • antipornography — opposed to or acting against pornography
  • around the horn — (thrown) from third base to second to first in trying for a double play
  • attorney-at-law — a lawyer qualified to represent in court a party to a legal action
  • baja california — peninsula in Mexico, between the Pacific & the Gulf of California: divided into a northern state (Baja California), 27,071 sq mi (70,114 sq km), pop. 1,661,000, cap. Mexicali; and a southern state (Baja California Sur), 28,447 sq mi (73,677 sq km), pop. 318,000, cap. La Paz
  • blow one's horn — to boast about oneself; brag
  • california gull — a large gull, Larus californicus, of the western U.S.
  • california mink — cacomistle.
  • california roll — a sushi roll containing avocado, cucumber, and crabmeat, or imitation crabmeat, wrapped in vinegared rice and seaweed.
  • california rose — a cultivated variety of a bindweed, Calystegia hederacea, having showy, double, rose-colored flowers.
  • cape horn fever — illness feigned by malingerers.
  • corn on the cob — Corn on the cob is the long rounded part of the maize or corn plant on which small yellow seeds grow, and which is eaten as a vegetable.
  • corn-leaf aphid — a green aphid, Rhopalosiphum maidis, widely distributed in the U.S.: a pest of corn and other grasses.
  • corn-root aphid — an aphid, Anuraphis maidiradicis, that lives as a symbiont in colonies of cornfield ants and feeds on the roots of corn: an agricultural pest.
  • cornflower blue — a deep vivid blue, like that of the typical blooms of a cornflower
  • cranborne money — (in Britain) the annual payment made to Opposition parties in the House of Lords to help them pay for certain services necessary to the carrying out of their parliamentary duties; established in 1996
  • crown of thorns — a climbing spurge, Euphorbia milii splendens, of Madagascar, having stems covered with spines.
  • crown-of-thorns — a starfish, Acanthaster planci, that has a spiny test and feeds on living coral in coral reefs
  • false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
  • flowerhorn fish — a brightly coloured cichlid fish with a large protuberance on the head
  • hole-and-corner — secretive; clandestine; furtive: The political situation was full of hole-and-corner intrigue.
  • horned cucumber — a tropical African plant, Cucumis metuliferus, having fruit with spiky, orange skin and jellylike pulp that tastes like cucumbers.
  • horned oak gall — a small, round tumor, formed around wasp eggs laid in the branches of a pin oak tree, that disrupts the flow of nutrients to the tree, with consequent defoliation and death.
  • horned screamer — a screamer, Anhima cornuta, of tropical South America, having a long, slender hornlike process projecting from the forehead.
  • horner's method — a technique, involving successive substitutions, for approximating the real roots of an equation with real coefficients.
  • hospital corner — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
  • indian hawthorn — a southern Chinese evergreen shrub, Raphiolepis indica, of the rose family, having shiny, leathery leaves and pinkish-white flowers in loose clusters.
  • jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
  • john barleycorn — a personification of barley as used in malt liquor, of malt liquor itself, or of any intoxicating liquor.
  • longhorn cattle — cattle of a long-horned breed, usually red or variegated, formerly common in SW US
  • morning prayers — early-morning act of religious worship
  • morning service — a regular church service in the mornng
  • ornithodelphian — of or relating to mammals of the class Ornithodelphia
  • ornithorhynchus — the platypus.
  • peppercorn rent — A peppercorn rent is an extremely low rent.
  • rhinoceros horn — the horn of a rhinoceros
  • semipornography — partial pornography; material that is almost pornographic
  • the amen corner — the part of a church, usually to one side of the pulpit, occupied by people who lead the responsive amens during the service
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • tomato hornworm — the larva of a hawk moth, Manduca quinquemaculata, having a black, hornlike structure at the rear, that feeds on the leaves of tomato, potato, and other plants of the nightshade family.
  • turn the corner — the place at which two converging lines or surfaces meet.

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