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15-letter words containing rm

  • linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
  • mail order firm — a company that sells goods by mail order
  • make a long arm — to reach out for something, as from a sitting position
  • malconformation — Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; disproportion of parts.
  • menispermaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Menispermaceae, a family of mainly tropical and subtropical plants, most of which are woody climbers with small flowers
  • mermaid's purse — the horny or leathery egg case of certain cartilaginous fishes, as skates.
  • metainformation — metadata
  • michaelmas term — the autumn term at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, the Inns of Court, and some other educational establishments
  • mis-informative — to give false or misleading information to.
  • neurodermatitis — W Lichen simplex chronicus, a skin disorder characterized by chronic itching and scratching, resulting in thick, leathery, brownish skin.
  • neuroectodermal — Of or pertaining to the neuroectoderm.
  • new high german — the High German language since c1500.
  • nitrochloroform — chloropicrin.
  • non-conformance — lack of conformity.
  • non-determinant — a determining agent or factor.
  • non-informative — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
  • nonconformities — Plural form of nonconformity.
  • nonfermentative — tending to produce or undergo fermentation.
  • normally-closed — Normally-closed switch contacts are in a closed state at rest.
  • norman conquest — the conquest of England by the Normans, under William the Conqueror, in 1066.
  • northeast storm — a cyclonic storm that moves northeastward within several hundred miles of the eastern coast of the U.S. and Canada, particularly in fall and winter, its often strong northeast winds causing high seas and coastal damage and bearing rain or snow.
  • ocean of storms — the largest of the dark plains (maria) on the surface of the moon, situated in the second and third quadrant
  • odd permutation — a permutation of a set of n elements, x 1 , x 2 , …, xn, which permutes the product of all differences of the form (xi – xj), where i is less than j, into the negative of the product.
  • officer of arms — an officer with the duties of a herald, especially one charged with the devising, granting, or confirming of armorial bearings.
  • old high german — High German before 1100. Abbreviation: OHG.
  • organic farming — farming with organic methods
  • over-performing — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
  • parmesan cheese — of or from Parma, in northern Italy.
  • 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.
  • performance art — a collaborative art form originating in the 1970s as a fusion of several artistic media, as painting, film, video, music, drama, and dance, and deriving in part from the 1960s performance happenings.
  • performance car — a car that can go very fast and can increase its speed very quickly
  • performing arts — dance, drama, music
  • permanent press — a process in which a fabric is chemically treated to make it wrinkle-resistant so as to require little or no ironing after washing.
  • permanent tooth — any of the 32 adult teeth that replace the 20 milk teeth.
  • pharmacological — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
  • pharmacotherapy — the treatment of disease through the administration of drugs.
  • plant-hire firm — a company that hires out mobile mechanical equipment for construction, road-making, etc
  • platform rocker — a rocking chair supported on a stationary base
  • platform scales — a weighing machine which has a platform that you put something on to be weighed
  • platform tennis — a variation of tennis played on a wooden platform enclosed with chicken wire in which the players hit a rubber ball with wooden paddles following the same basic rules as tennis except that only one serve is permitted and balls can be played off the back and side fences.
  • platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
  • poikilothermism — the state or quality of being cold-blooded, as fishes and reptiles.
  • poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
  • pre-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • predeterminable — able to be predetermined; able to be determined in advance
  • preformationism — the belief in the theory of preformation
  • preformationist — someone who advocates the theory of preformation
  • prince charming — (sometimes lowercase) a man who embodies a woman's romantic ideal.
  • quartermistress — the female equivalent of a quartermaster
  • quasi-permanent — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
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