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15-letter words that end in n

  • anticoagulation — (medicine) Acting to combat or prevent coagulation of blood.
  • antiegalitarian — opposing equality
  • antilibertarian — opposed to libertarianism
  • antisegregation — opposed to or acting against segregration
  • antispeculation — opposed to or acting against excessive oil speculation
  • antitrinitarian — rejecting or opposed to the Christian doctrine of the Holy Trinity
  • antivivisection — opposed to the act or practice or performing experiments on living animals, involving cutting into or dissecting the body
  • appendicularian — of or relating to a family of molluscs (Appendicularia) characterized by their long tail appendages
  • appropinquation — the action of approaching
  • arithmetic mean — an average value of a set of integers, terms, or quantities, expressed as their sum divided by their number
  • arms inspection — the official checking of a country's weapons and other military equipment, usually to check that international agreements have been respected
  • around the horn — (thrown) from third base to second to first in trying for a double play
  • arterialization — to convert (venous blood) into arterial blood by the action of oxygen in the lungs.
  • as best one can — If someone does something as best they can, they do it as well as they can, although it is very difficult.
  • ascending colon — the first portion of the colon, beginning at the cecum in the lower right abdominal cavity and continuing upward along the right posterior abdominal wall to approximately the lower ribs.
  • astronavigation — celestial navigation
  • atlantic puffin — any of several alcidine sea birds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda, having a short neck and a large, compressed, grooved bill, as F. arctica (Atlantic puffin) of the North Atlantic.
  • atlantic salmon — a valuable food and game fish, Salmo salar, mainly of northern coastal Atlantic waters or, when spawning, in freshwater streams tributary to the ocean.
  • auf wiedersehen — goodbye, until we see each other again
  • augmented roman — a writing system based on an expanded English alphabet, consisting of 43 characters representing different phonemes of spoken English, used for teaching beginners to read. Abbreviation: I.T.A., i.t.a.
  • 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
  • autotransfusion — a process in which a patient receives some of his or her own blood in a transfusion rather than a donor's blood
  • 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.
  • ball ammunition — live small-arms ammunition
  • bar examination — a written examination to determine if one is qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction.
  • barn conversion — the adaptation of a farm barn into a building serving a different use, such as a house or commercial premises
  • barrage balloon — Barrage balloons are large balloons which are fixed to the ground by strong steel cables. They are used in wartime, when the cables are intended to destroy low-flying enemy aircraft.
  • basic education — (in India) education in which all teaching is correlated with the learning of a craft
  • be having sb on — If you are having someone on, you are pretending that something is true when it is not true, for example as a joke or in order to tease them.
  • bear comparison — to be sufficiently similar in class or range to be compared with (something else), esp favourably
  • beast of burden — A beast of burden is an animal such as an ox or a donkey that is used for carrying or pulling things.
  • beat generation — members of the generation that came to maturity in the 1950s, whose rejection of the social and political systems of the West was expressed through contempt for regular work, possessions, traditional dress, etc, and espousal of anarchism, communal living, drugs, etc
  • beef wellington — a lightly roasted beef fillet covered with pâté de foie gras, wrapped in pastry, and then baked
  • belgian griffon — one of a variety of the Brussels griffon having a black or reddish-brown and black coat.
  • belief revision — (artificial intelligence)   The area of theory change in which preservation of the information in the theory to be changed plays a key role. A fundamental issue in belief revision is how to decide what information to retract in order to maintain consistency, when the addition of a new belief to a theory would make it inconsistent. Usually, an ordering on the sentences of the theory is used to determine priorities among sentences, so that those with lower priority can be retracted. This ordering can be difficult to generate and maintain. The postulates of the AGM Theory for Belief Revision describe minimal properties a revision process should have.
  • bessel function — one of several transcendental functions, usually represented as power series, that are solutions to a group of related differential equations.
  • beta conversion — (theory)   A term from lambda-calculus for beta reduction or beta abstraction.
  • beyond question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
  • beyond sb's ken — If something is beyond your ken, you do not have enough knowledge to be able to understand it.
  • binary notation — a number system having a base of two, numbers being expressed by sequences of the digits 0 and 1: used in computing, as 0 and 1 can be represented electrically as off and on
  • bioaccumulation — the process in which industrial waste, toxic chemicals, etc. gradually accumulate in living tissue
  • biogasification — the conversion of organic matter into biogas.
  • biostatistician — someone who studies or works professionally in the field of biostatistics
  • black operation — a covert and undocumented military operation
  • bladder campion — a European caryophyllaceous plant, Silene vulgaris, having white flowers with an inflated calyx
  • blast injection — the injection of liquid fuel directly into the cylinder of an internal-combustion engine using a blast of high-pressure air to atomize the spray of fuel
  • blow one's horn — to boast about oneself; brag
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