15-letter words that end in nt
- colour sergeant — a sergeant who carries the regimental, battalion, or national colours, as in a colour guard
- composite print — a photograph characterized by overlapping or juxtaposed images resulting from a multiple exposure or the combining of negatives (composite print)
- control account — an account to which are posted the debit and credit totals of other accounts, usually in preparation of financial statements
- corday d'armont — (Marie Anne) Charlotte [muh-ree an shahr-luh t;; French ma-ree an shar-lawt] /məˈri æn ˈʃɑr lət;; French maˈri an ʃarˈlɔt/ (Show IPA), 1768–93, French Revolutionary heroine who assassinated Marat.
- counterargument — A counterargument is an argument that makes an opposing point to another argument.
- counterclaimant — a claim made to offset another claim, especially one made by the defendant in a legal action.
- counterirritant — an agent that causes a superficial irritation of the skin and thereby relieves inflammation of deep structures
- countermovement — the act, process, or result of moving.
- crush-resistant — not being easily creased
- current account — A current account is a personal bank account which you can take money out of at any time using your cheque book or cash card.
- day of judgment — Judgment Day
- deck department — the part of a ship's crew, from the captain down, concerned with running the ship but not with heavy machinery or catering
- defining moment — a point at which the essential nature or character of a person, group, etc., is revealed or identified.
- density current — a turbid, dense current of sediments in suspension moving along the slope and bottom of a lake or ocean.
- deposit account — A deposit account is a type of bank account where the money in it earns interest.
- descaling agent — something intended for use removing limescale from something such as a tap, kettle or coffee machine.
- disentanglement — Removal of, or extrication from twists, tangles, complications or confusion.
- disentrancement — the act of setting free from a trance
- disillusionment — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
- disimprisonment — the act of disimprisoning
- distinguishment — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- dna fingerprint — the use of a DNA probe for the identification of an individual, as for the matching of genes from a forensic sample with those of a criminal suspect.
- dose equivalent — a unit that quantifies the biological effectiveness of an absorbed dose of ionizing radiation, obtained by multiplying the absorbed dose by dimensionless factors that account for the kind of radiation, its energy, and the nature of the absorber: measured in Sievert or rem.
- drawing account — an account used by a partner or employee for cash withdrawals.
- eclaircissement — clarification; explanation.
- enfranchisement — The act of enfranchising.
- expansion joint — structural feature: gap to allow for expansion or contraction
- expense account — account for expenses
- fair employment — the policy or practice of employing people on the basis of their capabilities only, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.
- fifth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, providing chiefly that no person be required to testify against himself or herself in a criminal case and that no person be subjected to a second trial for an offense for which he or she has been duly tried previously.
- file management — the work of organizing and arranging files in a computer
- fire department — the department of a municipal government charged with the prevention and extinguishing of fire.
- first amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting Congress from interfering with freedom of religion, speech, assembly, or petition.
- fish restaurant — a restaurant which serves mainly fish
- flag lieutenant — an admiral's ADC
- flame retardant — a compound used in cloth and plastic material to raise the ignition point of the material, thus making it resistant to fire.
- flame-retardant — Flame-retardant is the same as fire-retardant.
- flemish brabant — a province of central Belgium, formed in 1995 from the N part of Brabant province: densely populated and intensively farmed, with large industrial centres. Pop: 1 031 904 (2004 est). Area: 2106 sq km (813 sq miles)
- flight sergeant — a noncommissioned officer in the Royal Air Force junior in rank to a master aircrew
- florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
- flowering plant — a plant that produces flowers, fruit, and seeds; angiosperm.
- food supplement — a substance designed to make up for a deficiency in one's diet
- for the present — being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current: increasing respect for the present ruler of the small country.
- fore-topgallant — being a sail, yard, or rigging belonging to a fore-topgallant mast.
- formal argument — (programming) (Or "parameter") A name in a function or subroutine definition that is replaced by, or bound to, the corresponding actual argument when the function or subroutine is called. In many languages formal arguments behave like local variables which get initialised on entry. See: argument.
- full employment — all of workforce is employed
- general servant — a domestic servant who performs general tasks
- glazier's point — a small, pointed piece of sheet metal, for holding a pane of glass in a sash until the putty has hardened.
- golden pheasant — an Asiatic pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus, having brilliant scarlet, orange, gold, green, and black plumage.
- gram equivalent — the combining power, especially in grams (gram equivalent) of an element or compound, equivalent to hydrogen as a standard of 1.00797 or oxygen as a standard of 8; the atomic weight divided by the valence.