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15-letter words that end in t

  • arrest judgment — to stay proceedings after a verdict, on the grounds of error or possible error
  • artificial lift — Artificial lift is any method of increasing flow from a well.
  • artillery plant — any of various tropical urticaceous plants of the genus Pilea, such as P. microphylla, all having stamens that discharge their pollen explosively
  • as often as not — If you say that something happens as often as not, or more often than not, you mean that it happens fairly frequently, and that this can be considered as typical of the kind of situation you are talking about.
  • asbestos cement — a compound of asbestos fiber and Portland cement formerly used for various nonstructural building purposes.
  • assimilationist — a person who favours and promotes the incorporation and mixing of different groups in society
  • astrodynamicist — a person who studies astrodynamics
  • at pistol point — being under or using the threat of being shot
  • at the earliest — At the earliest means not before the date or time mentioned.
  • athlete's heart — enlargement of the heart, caused by continued, heavy physical exertion
  • audio equipment — electrical devices used to play or record sound
  • australian mist — a breed of medium-sized cat with a short spotted or marbled coat
  • autofluorescent — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting autofluorescence.
  • automatic pilot — An automatic pilot or an autopilot is a device in an aircraft that automatically keeps it on a particular course.
  • available light — the natural or usual light on a subject.
  • babinski effect — the reflex curling upwards of the toes (instead of inwards) when the sole of the foot is stroked, normal in infants below the age of two but a pathological condition in adults
  • bacterial ghost — a bacterial cell that is emptied and filled artificially with another substance
  • badminton court — the court on which games of badminton are played
  • balanced ticket — a slate of candidates chosen to appeal to a wide range of voters, especially by including members of large regional, ethnic, or religious groups.
  • balloon payment — a large payment that concludes a series of smaller payments, for example in order to repay a loan
  • banking product — one of the various services offered by a bank to its customers: mortgages, loans, insurance etc
  • bargaining unit — a specific group of employees who are covered by the same collective agreement or set of agreements and represented by the same bargaining agent or agents
  • basic statement — protocol (def 6).
  • be lost without — If you say that you would be lost without someone or something, you mean that you would be unhappy or unable to work properly without them.
  • beat one's meat — to masturbate
  • bedsheet ballot — a very long, involved paper ballot
  • beefsteak plant — an Asian plant, Perilla frutescens crispa, with aromatic red or green leaves which are used in cooking: family Lamiaceae
  • before the fact — before the commission of the offence
  • before the mast — as an apprentice seaman
  • bench scientist — a scientist who does experiments in a laboratory
  • benefit concert — a concert to raise money for charity
  • benefit payment — a payment of money by the government to people who are ill, unemployed, poor or who have children
  • biopsychologist — a field of psychology that deals with the effects of biological factors on behavior.
  • bit-mapped font — a computer font whose characters are held in memory as series of dots.
  • bite the bullet — to face up to (pain, trouble, etc) with fortitude; be stoical
  • black guillemot — a common guillemot, Cepphus grylle: its summer plumage is black with white wing patches and its winter plumage white with greyish wings
  • black snakeroot — a tall bugbane, Cimicifuga racemosa, of the buttercup family, of eastern North America, having thin, tapering, toothed or deeply cut leaflets and branched clusters of small, white flowers.
  • blossom-end rot — a disease of tomato and pepper caused by a deficiency of calcium, characterized by decay at the blossom end of the fruit.
  • bo diddley beat — a type of syncopated Black rhythm, frequently used in rock music
  • bohemian forest — a mountain range between the SW Czech Republic and SE Germany. Highest peak: Arber, 1457 m (4780 ft)
  • book of account — a book to keep accounts in; ledger
  • border incident — an incident, usually fighting, on a border between countries
  • borscht circuit — summer resort hotels in the Catskills and White Mountains, where entertainment is provided for the guests
  • bourbon biscuit — a rich chocolate-flavoured biscuit with a chocolate-cream filling
  • bowel complaint — bowel disease or condition
  • boys' night out — an evening spent outside of the home by a group of men
  • branchial cleft — Zoology. one of a series of slitlike openings in the walls of the pharynx between the branchial arches of fishes and aquatic amphibians through which water passes from the pharynx to the exterior.
  • breach of trust — a violation of duty by a trustee or any other person in a fiduciary position
  • break statement — (programming)   A statement in the C programming language that transfers control out of the innermost enclosing switch, while, do, or for statement. The statement also exists in languages derived from C, such as C++ and Java.
  • breakeven chart — a graph measuring the value of an enterprise's revenue and costs against some index of its activity, such as percentage capacity. The intersection of the total revenue and total cost curves gives the breakeven point
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