15-letter words containing len
- indivisibleness — The state of being indivisible; indivisibility.
- indomitableness — Quality of being indomitable.
- indubitableness — The quality of being indubitable.
- inescapableness — The quality of being inescapable.
- inexcusableness — The quality of being inexcusable.
- inflammableness — The quality of being inflammable.
- inscrutableness — Inscrutability.
- inseparableness — The quality or state of being inseparable.
- insuperableness — The quality of being insuperable or insurmountable; insuperability.
- intolerableness — The state of being intolerable or insufferable.
- intractableness — The state of being intractable; intractability.
- irreparableness — The quality of being irreparable.
- irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
- jewish calendar — the lunisolar calendar used by the Jews, in which time is reckoned from 3761 bc: regarded as the year of the Creation. The months, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, Elul, Tishri, Cheshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, and Adar, have either 29 or 30 days. Originally a new month was declared when the new moon was sighted in Jerusalem, but when this became impossible, a complex formula was devised to keep Rosh Chodesh near to the new moon. In addition, to keep the harvest festivals in the right seasons, there is a Metonic cycle of 14 years, in five of which an additional month is added after Shevat. The year according to biblical reckoning begins with Nisan, and the civil year begins with Tishri; the years are numbered from Tishri
- julian calendar — the calendar established by Julius Caesar in 46 b.c., fixing the length of the year at 365 days and at 366 days every fourth year. There are 12 months of 30 or 31 days, except for February (which has 28 days with the exception of every fourth year, or leap year, when it has 29 days).
- justifiableness — Justifiability.
- lending library — Also called circulating library, rental library. a small library that is maintained by a commercial establishment, as a drugstore, and is composed largely of current books that are lent to customers for a fee.
- length over all — Nautical. the entire length of a vessel, measured from the foremost point of the bow to the aftermost point of the stern.
- methylene group — the bivalent organic group >CH 2 , derived from methane.
- mid-lent sunday — Laetare Sunday.
- milliequivalent — a unit of measure, applied to electrolytes, that expresses the combining power of a substance. Abbreviation: mEq.
- monovision lens — Ophthalmology. one of a pair of contact lenses that adjust one eye for farsightedness and the other for nearsightedness, used as an alternative to bifocal lenses.
- mortgage lender — a financial institution which provides money to borrowers for mortgages
- multimillennial — relating to or encompassing several millennia
- multiwavelength — Involving, or composed of, multiple wavelengths.
- muslim calendar — the lunar calendar used by Muslims and reckoned from a.d. 622: the calendar year consists of 354 days and contains 12 months: Moharram, Safar, Rabi I, Rabi II, Jumada I, Jumada II, Rajab, Shaban, Ramadan, Shawwal, Dhu ʾl-Qaʿda, and Dhu ʾl-hijjah. In leap years the month Dhu ʾl-hijjah contains one extra day.
- omnibenevolence — unlimited kindness and generosity
- phenylene group — any of three bivalent, isomeric groups having the formula –C 6 H 4 –, derived from benzene by the removal of two hydrogen atoms.
- plenipotentiary — a person, especially a diplomatic agent, invested with full power or authority to transact business on behalf of another.
- point d'alencon — Alençon lace (def 1).
- polyisobutylene — a polymer of isobutylene, used chiefly in the manufacture of synthetic rubber.
- post-millennial — of or relating to the period following the millennium.
- premillennially — from a premillennial point of view
- propylene group — the bivalent group −CH(CH 3)CH 2 −, derived from propylene or propane.
- recoverableness — the ability to be recovered or chance of being able to recover
- responsibleness — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
- retrievableness — the state or quality of being retrievable
- retrofocus lens — a wide-angle lens, for use on single-lens reflex cameras, of inverted telephoto design, with a back focus greater than the focal length.
- shark repellent — any tactic used by a corporation to prevent a takeover by a corporate raider.
- shoulder-length — Shoulder-length hair is long enough to reach your shoulders.
- silent majority — the U.S. citizens who supported President Nixon's policies but who were not politically vocal, outspoken, or active: considered by him to constitute a majority.
- soft-focus lens — a lens designed to produce an image that is uniformly very slightly out of focus: typically used for portrait work
- solenoid switch — A solenoid switch is an electrical switch that is often used where a high current circuit, such as a starter motor circuit, is brought into operation by a low current switch.
- superexcellence — extreme or supreme excellence; the quality of being superexcellent
- telescopic lens — a lens that makes distant objects appear larger and brighter
- unadvisableness — the quality of being imprudent or not advisable
- unavailableness — the state of being useless or ineffectual
- unchallengeably — in a way that cannot be challenged; in an unchallengeable manner
- unclimbableness — the quality or condition of being unclimbable
- unendurableness — the quality or state of being unendurable