15-Letter Words Containing A

""SIMULTANEOUS Existing, happening, or done, at the same time; as, simultaneous events. as, simultaneous events.""

SPECIFICALLY In a specific manner.

Plural or third person singular

Democratic

Yours and yours only

Word with prefix non-

NORMATIVENESS normative

... in spite of having no status!

All the same.

Nevertheless failing to resist

Dehumanising, if CIA somehow infiltrates dissent

Observability

Observational

OBSTINATENESS obstinate

Obtainability

OCCIDENTALIZE

Rise of gas with cheap coal I moved about, referring to marine studies

OFFHANDEDNESS offhanded

""Neuroglia consisting of cells similar to but smaller than astrocytes, found in the central nervous system and associated with the formation of myelin.""

""A polymer that consists of two, three, or four monomers.""

A carbohydrate that consists of a relatively small number of monosaccharides.

Like some antennae

Like versatile antennas

Remind coalition about covering all angles

""ONTOGENETIC Of or pertaining to ontogenesis; as, ontogenetic phenomena. as, ontogenetic phenomena.""

Candor.

Operationalism

Operationalist

OPERATIVENESS operative

Ophthalmology

An examiner of pupils, perhaps

Specialist in eye diseases

Important doctor of medicine.

Retinal inspection instruments

""OPHTHALMOSCOPE An instrument for viewing the interior of the eye, particularly the retina. Light is thrown into the eye by a mirror (usually concave) and the interior is then examined with or without the aid of a lens.""

Opinionated

ORCHESTRATION The arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral treatment of a composition; called also instrumentation. instrumentation.

Organochlorine

An organic compound that contains mercury.

Organometallic

Chemical has ruined oath on paper <197> gosh!

Orientational

ORTHODONTIC Of or pertaining to orthodontics or orthodontia.

Orthogonality

ORTHOGONALIZE

Orthophosphate

Medical Specialties ()

Oscillography

Osmoregulation

OSTEOPATHIC Of or pertaining to osteopathy.

Camper's quality

OUTMANIPULATE

Present participle or gerund

Inflected form of ACCENTUATED Inflected form of ACCENTUATE To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

Overaccentuate

""ACHIEVEMENT The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; successful performance; accomplishment; as, the achievement of his object. as, the achievement of his object.""

Overadjustment

ADVERTISING a communication publicly promoting some product or service.

""APPLICATION The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.""

""ARTICULATED United by, or provided with, articulations; jointed; as, an articulated skeleton. as, an articulated skeleton.""

Overarticulate

Overassessment

Too highly valued, as a business

Estimates the value of property too highly

""CENTRALIZED drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority; as, centralized control of emergency relief efforts; centralized government. Opposite of decentralized.as, centralized control of emergency relief efforts; centralized government. Opposite of decentralized.""

Overcentralize

Overclassify

COMMUNICATE To share in common; to participate in.

More than made up (for)

Tried too hard, in a way

Tries too hard to make up for a weakness

Rewards unduly

Acts excessively

Overcompliance

Inflected form of COMPLICATED Inflected form of COMPLICATE Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved.

Overcomplicate

CULTIVATION The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.

Overdecoration

""Inflected form of DRAMATIZING Inflected form of DRAMATIZE To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode. as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.""

EAGERNESSES eagerness

On English research site, speaking at length and adding too much detail

ELABORATION The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.

Attaching too much weight to

Stressing excessively

Finished the map off, losing time measuring and marking too much

ENCOURAGING Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring.

Showed too much of a good time

Overenthusiasm

Unduly high appraisals

Unrealistic value assessments

Overevaluation

EXAGGERATED Enlarged beyond bounds or the truth.

Overexaggerate

EXPECTATION The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.

Overextraction

""EXTRAVAGANT Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign.""

Yet more contempt generated by such presumption (wordplay)

""GENERALIZED Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type. as, a generalized type.""

Has nonspecific opinions, e.g

Has nonspecific opinions, for example

Inflected form of GLAMORIZING Inflected form of GLAMORIZE

A little too clever

Too fanciful

Overmedication

OPINIONATED Stiff in opinion; firmly or unduly adhering to one's own opinion or to preconceived notions; obstinate in opinion.

ORCHESTRATE to write an orchestra score for; -- of a musical composition.

Overornament

Overpersuasion

Overpopulation

PROGRAMMING program

Overregulation

Oversaturation

Inflected form of SPECIALIZED Inflected form of SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

Overspecialize

""Inflected form of SPECULATING Inflected form of SPECULATE To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events. as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events.""

SPECULATION The act of speculating.

Overstability

""Inflected form of STIMULATING Inflected form of STIMULATE To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory. as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory.""

""STIMULATION The act of stimulating, or the state of being stimulated.""

Exploitation to the point of diminishing returns.

Overzealous

Ovoviviparous

Oxidoreductase

Arthritis drug [41 points]

""A broad-spectrum antibiotic, C 22 H 24 N 2 O 9 , derived from the actinomycete Streptomyces rimosus and used to treat a variety of bacterial infections.""

Painterliness

PALATABLENESS The quality or state of being agreeable to the taste; relish; acceptableness.

Palatalization

PALEOBIOLOGIC

Paleobiologist

PALEOECOLOGIC

Paleoecologist

Adjective (-ic)

Paleomagnetism

Paleomagnetist

Of fossil lore

Paleontologist

Fossils

Paleozoologist

Palynological

Pantheistical

PANTISOCRATIC Of or pertaining to a pantisocracy.

Pantisocratist

Paradoxical

PARAGENETIC

Parajournalism

Paralinguistic

Six-sided prisms

PARAMETRIZE

Paramyxovirus

Paranormality

Pararosaniline

Parasexuality

Parasitization

PARASITOLOGIC

Parasitologist

""Of, relating to, or affecting the parasympathetic nervous system: parasympathetic activity; parasympathetic agents.""

In brackets

Play the clarinet randomly as a diversion

Work ethic following a payment matey's pocketed (thus?)

Ruler like Robert (wordplay)

Roundhead, in British history

Sam Rayburn, for example

Parthenocarpy

Means to reproduce (small melon), but raise temperature, hospital!

Sort of reproduction in earphones gets distorted

Quietly distributing another book of the Bible that describes the Virgin Birth

Conception of retro music followed by old rock group

Relating to unfertilised reproduction

""PARTICIPATION The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows. as, a participation in joy or sorrows.""

PARTICULARISE particular

PARTICULARIST One who holds to particularism.

Details

""PARTICULARIZE To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail.""

Pasteurization

Patentability

Pathogenicity

In both senses also called physiopathology . The functional changes associated with or resulting from disease or injury.

PEACEABLENESS peaceable

Pectinesterase

Penetrability

Pentobarbitone

Perdurability

In an itinerant fashion

Perishability

PERMANENTNESS permanent

How this word fits in

PERSONALIZE To make personal.

How gracious, how benign, is Solitude.

"How gracious, how benign, is Solitude."

Bringing to life

With great insight

With discernment

PERVASIVENESS pervasive

Pessimistical

These may cause screams in dreams

Pharisaical

Drugs capitals are much busted

Medicinal drugs

Manufactured drugs

(used with a sing. verb) The study of the action or effects of drugs on living organisms.

Pharmacognosy

The branch of pharmacology that deals with drugs in their crude or natural state and with medicinal herbs or other plants.

""(used with a sing. verb) The process by which a drug is absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated by the body.""

Concerning drugs

Reportedly cultivate a green when dropping head of drug science

Pharmacologist

Pl. pharmacotherapies Treatment of disease through the use of drugs.

Phenobarbitone

Lab acidity indicator

C20H14O4 (and a key substance in this puzzle's theme)

Relating to observable facts

Phenylbutazone

""Abbr. PKU A genetic disorder in which the body lacks the enzyme necessary to metabolize phenylalanine to tyrosine. Left untreated, the disorder can cause brain damage and progressive mental retardation as a result of the accumulation of phenylalanine and its breakdown products.""

Phenylthiourea

Kind of twisting hill path on Capri

Patrons of a sort

Literally, lovers of mankind

Benevolent people

Philanthropoid

In a manner befitting Socrates one loyal Polish chap's not acting rashly

A graphic record of heart sounds and murmurs that is produced by a phonocardiograph.

PHONOGRAMIC

PHOSPHATIZE PHOSPHATE A salt of phosphoric acid.

""An organic compound, C 4 H 10 N 3 O 5 P, found in muscle tissue and capable of storing and providing energy for muscular contraction. Also called creatine phosphate .""

PHOSPHORYLATE

""PHOSPHORYLATE PHOSPHORYL The radical PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds. PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds.""

PHOSPHORYLATE

Photoautotroph