15-letter words containing a, d, g, i, l
- in a good light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- indicator light — a device for indicating that a motor vehicle is about to turn left or right; blinker
- individualising — Present participle of individualise.
- individualizing — Present participle of individualize.
- industrialising — Present participle of industrialise.
- industrializing — Present participle of industrialize.
- infrared galaxy — a galaxy that radiates strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- insider dealing — dealing in company securities on a recognized stock exchange, with a view to making a profit or avoiding a loss, by a person who has confidential information about the securities that, if generally known, would affect their price. Its practice by those connected with a company is illegal
- integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
- island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
- kangaroo island — an island in the Indian Ocean, off South Australia. Area: 4350 sq km (1680 sq miles)
- keeling islands — Cocos Islands
- ladies' gallery — a gallery in the old House of Commons set aside for women spectators
- lady's-earrings — any of several plants having pendent flowers thought to resemble earrings, as the jewelweed or the fuchsia.
- lady-in-waiting — a lady who is in attendance upon a queen or princess.
- laminated glass — Laminated glass is safety glass in which a transparent plastic film is placed between plates of glass.
- lapland bunting — a passerine bird: Calcarius lapponicus
- laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
- leading article — Also called leader. the most important or prominent news story in a newspaper.
- leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
- leading strings — strings or straps formerly used to guide and support a young child learning to walk
- lending library — Also called circulating library, rental library. a small library that is maintained by a commercial establishment, as a drugstore, and is composed largely of current books that are lent to customers for a fee.
- library binding — a tough, durable cloth binding for books. Compare edition binding.
- lift-drag ratio — the ratio of the lift to the drag of an airfoil.
- light and shade — If you say that there is light and shade in something such as a performance, you mean you like it because different parts of it are different in tone or mood.
- lightheadedness — Alternative spelling of light-headedness.
- like grim death — as if afraid for one's life
- linear ordering — an ordering that is reflexive, antisymmetric, transitive, and connected, as less than or equal to on the involved integers
- living standard — standard of living.
- loading program — a series of instructions entered automatically in a program that starts the processing.
- logical address — virtual address
- long-tailed tit — a small European songbird, Aegithalos caudatus, with a black, white, and pink plumage and a very long tail: family Paridae (tits)
- lord-in-waiting — a nobleman in attendance on a British monarch or the Prince of Wales.
- lowland gorilla — the eastern lowland gorilla or western lowland gorilla. See under gorilla.
- magnetic needle — a slender magnetized steel rod that, when adjusted to swing in a horizontal plane, as in a compass, indicates the direction of the earth's magnetic fields or the approximate position of north and south.
- mailing address — postal or delivery address
- make a big deal — If someone makes a big deal out of something, they make a fuss about it or treat it as if it were very important.
- malpighian body — Also called kidney corpuscle, Malpighian body. the structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule.
- marigold window — wheel window.
- meibomian gland — any of the small sebaceous glands in the eyelid, beneath the conjunctiva
- mineral kingdom — minerals collectively.
- mollier diagram — a graph showing the enthalpy of a substance as a function of its entropy when some physical property of the substance, as temperature or pressure, is kept at a specified constant value.
- mongolian idiot — a person affected with Down syndrome
- moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
- nation-building — Journalists sometimes use nation-building to refer to government policies that are designed to create a strong sense of national identity.
- nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
- north highlands — a town in central California, near Sacramento.
- old age pension — An old age pension is a regular amount of money that people receive from the government when they have retired from work.
- old high german — High German before 1100. Abbreviation: OHG.
- oligodendroglia — Oligodendrocytes collectively.