15-Letter Words

Autographical

Automatization

Autoradiograph

The process of producing an autoradiogram by exposing photographic film to a radioactive substance in close proximity to the film.autoradiogram by exposing photographic film to a radioactive substance in close proximity to the film.

Means of changing behavior

Autotetraploid

AUTOTETRAPLOID

""A transformer in which part of the primary winding is used as a secondary winding, or vice versa; -- called also a compensator or balancing coil.compensator or balancing coil.""

(Med) → Eigenbluttransfusion f

""AUTOTROPHIC Capable of self-nourishment; requiring only minerals for growth; using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; -- said of all plants in which photosynthetic activity takes place, and certain bacteria. It is opposed to parasitism or saprophytism.""

""AVAILABLENESS Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. as, the availableness of a title.""

Axiomatisation

Axiomatization

Azidothymidine

BACKSCATTERING backscatter

Of the study of microorganisms

Life scientists

Scientists in bars, egoistic lot getting sozzled

Bacteriophagy

BARBAROUSNESS The quality or state of being barbarous; barbarity; barbarism.

BAREFACEDNESS The quality of being barefaced; shamelessness; assurance; audaciousness.

Of or pertaining to basidiomycetes.

Bastardization

Bathymetrical

BEAUTEOUSNESS beauteous

Beautification

BEAUTIFULNESS beautiful

Believability

BELONGINGNESS belonging

BENIGHTEDNESS benighted

Benzanthracene

Benzodiazepine

Like a librarian's job

Sourced

Bibliotherapy

Bidialectalism

Bidirectional

The degree to which or rate at which a drug or other substance is absorbed or becomes available at the site of physiological activity after administration.

Biodegradation

BIOENGINEERING bioengineer

Biogeochemical

The study of the relationship between the geochemistry of a region and the animal and plant life in that region.

Of or pertaining to biogeography.

Natural glow (wordplay)

*Natural light (wordplay)

The glow of a glowworm

(used with a sing. verb) The application of mathematical principles to biological processes.

Biomechanical

(used with a sing. verb) Application of statistics to the analysis of biological and medical data.

""The study of the spatial and temporal distribution of fossil organisms, often interpolated with radiometric, geochemical, and paleoenvironmental information as a means of dating rock strata.""

Biosystematist

Commercial genetic manipulation techniques

""→ biotechnologue mf , biotechnologiste mf hc_En_Fr()""

Bipartisanship

Bipolarization

Bittersweet

Bituminization

BLAMELESSNESS The quality or state of being blameless; innocence.

Guilt for a sin the Wombles rule out

Blasphemous

Blaxploitation

Abstract noun (-ness)

BLOODLESSNESS bloodless

Bougainvillaea

Bouleversement

BOUNDLESSNESS boundless

BOUNTEOUSNESS bounteous

BOUNTIFULNESS bountiful

Bourgeoisify

Like serpentine writing

Bowdlerization

Brachycephaly

BRAINLESSNESS brainless

Braunschweiger

Breathability

Bremsstrahlung

Bronchodilator

Bronchoscopist

Brotherliness

BUMPTIOUSNESS Conceitedness.

BUREAUCRATISE bureaucrat

BUREAUCRATIZE

Businessperson

CANNIBALIZE CANNIBAL one who eats his own kind

""CAPACIOUSNESS The quality of being capacious, as of a vessel, a reservoir a bay, the mind, etc.""

Total corporate liabilities

Features of proper nouns

'Z' in Italian, endlessly beset by subtitles in letters made large

""CARCINOGENIC Causing or tending to cause cancer; as, the carcinogenic action of certain chemicals or of ionizing radiation.as, the carcinogenic action of certain chemicals or of ionizing radiation.""

Carcinosarcoma

Pertaining to the heart and lungs

Carnivorous

Carpetbaggery

CATACLYSMIC Of or pertaining to a cataclysm.

Categorization

The operation of introducing a catheter.

CEASELESSNESS ceaseless

Centralization

Centrifugation

Adjective (-ic)

""The anterior section of arachnids and many crustaceans, consisting of the fused head and thorax.""

Cephalothorax

Of or relating to the blood vessels that supply the brain.

Attention to formal procedures

Formality of style that could make connoisseur seem silly

Chancellorship

Changeability

CHANGEFULNESS changeful

Channelization

Traits which with care vary in styles

Mark is in touch with jerks in Features

Honesty, politeness, charm, etc.

CHEERLESSNESS cheerless

CHEMOAUTOTROPH

Chemoreception

CHEMOTACTIC

Chemotaxonomy

""Classification of organisms based on differences at the biochemical level, especially in the amino acid sequences of common proteins. Also called chemosystematics .""

Chemotherapist

CHILDLESSNESS The state of being childless.

CHILDLIKENESS childlike

Star-of-Bethlehem flowers

""An antibiotic, C 11 H 12 Cl 2 N 2 O 5 , derived from the soil bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae or produced synthetically and effective against a broad spectrum of microorganisms.""

Chlorothiazide

Chlorpromazine

Chlorpropamide

X-ray examination of the bile ducts following administration of a radiopaque contrast medium.

See vitamin D .

Pl. cholecystectomies Surgical removal of the gallbladder.

Plural or third person singular

Cholecystitis

""Abbr. CCK A hormone produced principally by the small intestine in response to the presence of fats, causing contraction of the gallbladder, release of bile, and secretion of pancreatic digestive enzymes. Also called pancreozymin .""

Cholestyramine

CHOLINERGIC

Cholinesterase

Chondrocranium

Chordamesoderm

""The highly vascular fetal membrane that consists of the fused chorion and allantois, found adjacent to the eggshell in reptiles and birds and constituting the placenta in most mammals.""

A very vascular fetal membrane composed of the fused chorion and adjacent wall of the allantois.

Pl. choriocarcinomas or choriocarcinomata (-m -t ) A malignant tumor that develops from trophoblast cells and usually occurs in the uterus.

Chromatograph

Chromatograph

CHROMATOGRAPH a piece of equipment used to perform chromatography{2}.

Chronobiology

The study of the effects of time and rhythmical phenomena on life processes.

January first (wordplay)

Chronotherapy

""Of or relating to a style of baroque architecture of Spain and its Latin-American colonies, characterized by elaborate and extravagant decoration.""

Film's camera-crew chief

Movie studio employe

James Wong Howe's occupation.

""CINEMATOGRAPH an older name for a movie projector, a machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the movie projector are animatograph, biograph, bioscope, electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph, kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope, zo\'94gyroscope, zo\'94praxiscope, etc.movie projector, a machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the <altname>movie projector</altname> are <altname>animatograph</altname>, <altname>biograph</altname>, <altname>bioscope</altname>, <altname>electrograph</altname>, <altname>electroscope</altname>, <altname>kinematograph</altname>, <altname>kinetoscope</altname>, <altname>veriscope</altname>, <altname>vitagraph</altname>,

CIRCULARIZE CIRCULAR a leaflet

Circumambient

CIRCUMAMBULATE To walk round about.

Circumambulate

Miracle cure, if time allows, around a point of the compass

Rhetorical evasions

Ways of talking round Milton? C-c-curious work

'... put a girdle round the earth ...'

Went Magellan one farther

Went completely around

Circumnavigate

Drake, for one

Phileas Fogg, for one

One of the great all-rounders

An inscription written around anything.

CIRCUMSPECTION Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; caution; watchfulness.

Describe in full detail

CIRCUMVALLATE To surround with a rampart or wall.

The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.

Circumvolution

Citriculturist

CIVILIANIZE CIVILIAN a nonmilitary person

CLAMOROUSNESS clamorous

Clandestine

Clandestinity

I-A, II-C, IV-B, etc.

Claustrophobia

Asset for a mathematician

Cleistogamous

CLOUDLESSNESS cloudless

Coagulability

""DETERMINATION The act of determining, or the state of being determined.""

Codifiability

Coeducational

Inflected form of ENZYMATICALLY Inflected form of ENZYMATIC

Coinvestigator

One's showing ice - ie must have this!

Lack of affection

Unsympathetic quality

Collaborative

Collaterality

COLLATERALIZE

COLLECTEDNESS A collected state of the mind; selfpossession.

COLLENCHYMA A tissue of vegetable cells which are thickend at the angles and (usually) elongated.

Colloquiality

""A friend to colonization, esp. (U. S. Hist) to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States. (U. S. Hist) to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States.""

COLORFASTNESS colorfast

COLORLESSNESS colorless

COMBATIVENESS The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel.

Combinatorial

State of being comfortable or comforting manner.

Commemorative

Commensuration

COMMERCIALISE commercial

COMMERCIALIST

Commerciality

""COMMERCIALIZE to make something commercial in character, either by placing it for sale on the open market, or by emphasizing its profit-making aspects; as, the Olympics have been excessively commercialized.as, the Olympics have been excessively commercialized.""

Commiserating

Percentage rise ordered to cover area hotel employees

DOORKEEPERS

""The inappropriate treatment of something as if it can be acquired or marketed like other commodities the commodification of human life CYCLOPENTADIENE (Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) a colourless liquid unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon obtained in the cracking of petroleum hydrocarbons and the distillation of coal tar: used in the manufacture of plastics and insecticides. Formula: C 5 H 6 DIAPHOTOTROPISM (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) growth of a plant or plant part in a direction transverse to that of the light [from Greek, from dia- + phototropic ]""

The quality of being commonplace; commonness.

The quality of being communicable; capability of being imparted.

""Used in communication; as, he had few communicational grooves available for use.as, he had few communicational grooves available for use.""

Communicative

""COMMUNISTIC Of or pertaining to communism or communists; as, communistic theories. as, communistic theories.""

Commutativity