15-Letter Words Containing O

Seaworthiness

Secondariness

Secularization

Securitization

Sedimentology

""The science that deals with the description, classification, and origin of sedimentary rock.""

SEDITIOUSNESS seditious

Segregationist

Jackson Pollock's "Bird," for example

Highly stylized sculpting style

""COLONIALISM The state or quality of, or the relationship involved in, being colonial.""

DOCUMENTARY Pertaining to written evidence; contained or certified in writing.

""Inflected form of LOGARITHMIC Inflected form of LOGARITHM One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (15501617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division. The relation of logarithms to common numbers is that of numbers in an arithmetical series to corresponding numbers in a geometrical series, so that sums and differences of the former indicate respectively products and quotients of the latter; thus The relation of logarithms to common numbers is that of numbers in an arithmetical series to corresponding numbers in a geometrical series, so that sums and differences of the former indicate respectively products and quotients of the latter; thus""

""PORNOGRAPHY Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.""

SENSATIONALISE sensational

SENSATIONALISE sensational

Sensationalism

... people who like cheap thrills

Source of bad taste

Typical tabloid writers

SENSATIONALIZE

Juices up

Hypes

Sensualization

Pompous formality

Excessive moralizing

The cardinal number equal to 10 54 .

By chance

Seroconversion

Servomechanism

SESQUICARBONATE

Sigmoidoscopy

Silicification

Simplification

Abattoirs

SOCIALISTIC

Of a study of animal and human behavior

Certain students of human behavior

Sociocultural

Adjective (-ical)

SOCIOLINGUIST

Trait of kind people

Compassionate trait

Sheds tears often, contrived to show compassion

Solderability

Solidification

SOLIPSISTIC

Solitudinarian

Solubilization

Somnambulation

Sophisticated

Sophistication

SORROWFULNESS sorrowful

Specialisation

Specialization

Spectrography

Spectroscopist

Plural or third person singular

The development of the spermatozoids.

Spinthariscope

Splendiferous

SPLENECTOMIZE

Naturalness; lack of guile.

State of being natural and unconstrained.

Sporangiophore

Stadtholderate

The office or position of a stadtholder.

Norm's establishment

Lack of sociability

Aloof behavior

Hand stiffens so terribly on son showing cold quality

Cor, the mysteries about one branch of a particular science!

Handedness, in chemistry

Stereological

STEREOTAXIC

Without any surprises, perhaps

Plural or third person singular

Production of steroids by living organisms.

Stigmatization

Wall Street firms

Biographical information about Wall Street workers (wordplay)

Stoichiometry

Upright basketball player (wordplay)

Honest direction (wordplay)

Undemanding, unlike a hooker!

Stratification

Stratovolcano

STRENUOUSNESS strenuous

Germ in toilet, pal scrubs away

Streptothricin

""STRONGYLOID Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious.""

""STRONGYLOID Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious.""

Stultification

Inflected form of CATEGORIZING Inflected form of CATEGORIZE To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

CONTRAOCTAVE

Subdevelopment

Subinfeudation

OPTIMIZATION

Subordinate

""ORGANIZATION The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body.""

""PROFESSIONAL Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct. as, professional knowledge; professional conduct.""

Subproletariat

Subreptitious

Proof-supplying demonstrations

Of or pertaining to substitution; substitutional.

Subterraneous

URBANIZATION

""VOCALIZATION The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.""

""A crystalline compound, C 14 H 30 N 2 O 4 , formed by esterification of succinic acid with choline and used medically to produce brief but complete muscular relaxation.""

Sulfinpyrazone

SULFUROUSNESS sulfurous

SUMPTUOUSNESS sumptuous

Superabsorbent

Superannuation

Having zero electrical resistance

Superconduct

Atom smasher parts

They're used in cutting-edge electronics

Experimental electrical materials

Supercontinent

English word

Superelevation

Supererogation

Superfluous

One administration on top of another

""Of, relating to, or being a form of radio reception in which the frequency of an incoming radio signal is mixed with a locally generated signal and converted to an intermediate frequency in order to facilitate amplification and the rejection of unwanted signals.""

""SUPERIMPOSE To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum. as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum.""

""SUPERINDUCTION The act of superinducing, or the state of being superinduced.""

SUPERINFECTION superinfect

Supermajority

Supernutrition

Superovulation

Jingo's excessive ardor

English word

Superphosphate

""The operation of supersaturating, or the state of being supersaturated.""

SUPERSCRIPTION The act of superscribing.

Superstitious

What a poor diet may need

How gumshoes work

In a stealthy way.

Tourist with pleurisy treated on the sly

Sycophantical

Word division

In a syllogistic manner.

Symmetrization

Sympathectomy

Producing physiological effects resembling those caused by the activity or stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system: a sympathomimetic hormone.

Symptomatical

Adjective (-ic)

Synchronicity

""SYNCHRONISE SYNCHRO a type of remote-control device, also SELSYN""

The act of synchronizing; concurrence of events in respect to time.

Simultaneous timing

By synecdoche.

The act or operation of systematizing.

Bird's shank bone

Lacemaker made out with VIPs and slobs

Ragamuffins

Ragamuffins

Technological

A large-scale corporate system.

Meetings, held in modern fashion

Meetings for the distanced

""The photography of distant objects in more enlarged form than is possible by the ordinary means, usually by a camera provided with a telephoto lens or mounted in place of the eyepiece of a telescope, so that the real or a magnified image falls on the sensitive plate.telephoto lens or mounted in place of the eyepiece of a telescope, so that the real or a magnified image falls on the sensitive plate.""

Teleprocessing

Foolish contempt of danger

Stormy state

Turbulence

Tumult.

Temporariness

TENACIOUSNESS tenacious

Bias towards controversy

Tenosynovitis

""Pl. teratocarcinomas or teratocarcinomata (-m -t ) A malignant teratoma, most often of the testes.""

Tergiversation

Territorialism

Territorialist

TERRITORIALIZE To enlarge by extension of territory.

Territorialize

Tetragrammaton

""A clear, colorless, highly flammable liquid, C 4 H 8 O, used as a solvent for natural and synthetic resins and in polymerization.""

Thalassocracy

Thermalization

""That branch of chemical science which includes the investigation of the various relations existing between chemical action and that manifestation of force termed heat, or the determination of the heat evolved by, or employed in, chemical actions.""

THERMODYNAMIC Relating to thermodynamics; caused or operated by force due to the application of heat.

Thermojunction

""Biology the study of the relative day and night temperatures required, in a 24-hour period, to achieve the best growth, reproduction, or flowering of plant species or the growth and reproduction of animals. Also thermoperiodicity. Cf. photoperiodism . ; thermoperiodic, thermoperiodical,""

Thermoreceptor

THERMOREGULATE

Thermoregulate

Temperature controller

Noun (-ence)

""Unaffected by relatively high temperatures, as certain ferments or toxins.""

Inconsiderate behaviour

Unadmirable trait

Inconsideration

The blocking of a blood vessel by a blood clot dislodged from its site of origin.

Thromboplastin

See calcitonin .

Thyroidectomy

Some banquet speakers

Dinner speakers

Some emcees

TOMBOYISHNESS tomboyish

Tonsillectomy

TOOTHSOMENESS toothsome

Topographical

The end of freedom

Absolute control by the government

System making a NATO militarist mad

TOTALITARIAN

Toxicological

Traditionalism

Upholders of long-established customs

They go by the book

Those opposed to modernism.

TRADITIONALIZE

Traditionalize

Transamination

TRANSCRIPTION transcript

"Verklarung," in Richard Strauss opus.

Gain in trust for a flourishing August 6

Event in Jesus' life

False hair, wigs, etc.

Hyde's appearance

Mr. Hyde went through them

""HISTORICAL Of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events; as, an historical poem; the historic page.as, an historical poem; the historic page.""

TRANSISTORISE transistor

TRANSISTORIZE

Process of spelling, say, "nyet"

Converting Sartre into Latin (wordplay)

Greek-to-English problem, for example

Souls' post-death passages

A device used to measure transmission of light through a medium.

Transmogrify