15-Letter Words Ending in N

See spiny-headed worm .

A white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic.

Theme of this puzzle

One way of ordering things, like all the consonants in rows three, six and nine

SPECULATION The act of speculating.

An inscription written around anything.

The grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate.

""COMPUTERIZE to provide with computers; as, Our office is fully computerized now.as, Our office is fully computerized now.""

English word

Noun (-tion)

Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii.

""A colorless liquid, C 3 H 5 OCl, used as a solvent in making resins.""

Illustrating a form of clean pixie motif

Providing of a case in point

Illustration.

Prelude to discovery

Research-lab activity

What many labs are used for

""EXTEMPORISE EXTEMPORE Without previous study or meditation; without preparation; on the spur of the moment; suddenly; extemporaneously; as, to write or speak extempore. as, to write or speak extempore.""

Ad-lib performance

Ad-libbing

Ad-lib

English word

Type of insurance

Hypercorrect

INVOLUTION The act of involving or infolding.

""PRODUCTION The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness. as, the production of commodities, of a witness.""

""SALIVATION The act or process of salivating; an excessive secretion of saliva, often accompained with soreness of the mouth and gums; ptyalism.""

""HYPOSTATIZE To make into, or regarded as, a separate and distinct substance.""

Lack of understanding

Lack of understanding.

Ignorance

Mutual comparison of corresponding parts.

POPULATION The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.

Noun (-tion)

The reception of one part within another.

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

Cause of wrongful arrest (wordplay)

Failure to understand

False belief in omens, perhaps, I demolished

EXPLOITATION The act of exploiting or utilizing.

""METROPOLITAN Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury. as, metropolitan luxury.""

Like Advil vis-a-vis Vicodin

""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.""

Target of satire in Dr. Seuss's 'The Lorax'

Target of satire in Dr. Seuss's "The Lorax"

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

SPECULATION The act of speculating.

PARAMETRIZE

Ruler like Robert (wordplay)

Roundhead, in British history

Sam Rayburn, for example

PERSONALIZE To make personal.

How gracious, how benign, is Solitude.

"How gracious, how benign, is Solitude."

Bringing to life

Lab acidity indicator

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

PHOSPHATIZE PHOSPHATE A salt of phosphoric acid.

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

Noun (-tion)

PHOTOIONIZE

Photoproduct

One with a limited wardrobe (wordplay)

Police-squad member

Member of the force.

Investigators of a kind.

Undercover detectives

Detectives

Lover of the 1 put initial A and R in the wrong place

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

Of or relating to postmillennialism.

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

Occurring after or as a consequence of blood transfusion.

Noun (-tion)

""CANCELLATION The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself. as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.""

IMPLANTATION The act or process of implantating.

Educational foundation (wordplay)

""MODIFICATION The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light. as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light.""

""NOTIFICATION The act of notifying, or giving notice; the act of making known; especially, the act of giving official notice or information to the public or to individuals, corporations, companies, or societies, by words, by writing, or by other means.""

Conference requirement, often

Theme of this puzzle, finally

Thief of time.

Start of a slacker's quip

Seer's forte

Weatherman's job

Seer's utterance

Act of converting

PRUSSIANIZE

English word

Pl. psychohistories A psychological or psychoanalytic interpretation or study of historical events or persons: the psychohistory of the Nazi era.

Psychology

The act of making fourfold; a taking four times the simple sum or amount.

Protection against the harmful effects of radiation.

""INCORPORATION The act of incorporating, or the state of being incorporated.""

PRIVATIZATION

The hindbrain.

The cardinal number equal to 10 54 .

OPTIMIZATION

""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.""

English word

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

What a poor diet may need

Transferral to another place

The moving of a seedling or tree

Interchange of organ across the estate

Below full capacity

Quota-shy output