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15-letter words containing a, d, g, i, o, s

  • groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
  • guild socialism — a form of socialism developed in England in the 20th century, emphasizing decentralization of industry and services with control to be vested in autonomous guilds of workers.
  • have it so good — to have so many benefits, esp material benefits
  • hedonic damages — compensation based on what the victim of a crime might have earned in the future
  • immunodiagnosis — serodiagnosis.
  • island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
  • it's a good job — If you say it's a good thing, or in British English it's a good job, that something is the case, you mean that it is fortunate.
  • kangaroo island — an island in the Indian Ocean, off South Australia. Area: 4350 sq km (1680 sq miles)
  • leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
  • logical address — virtual address
  • madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
  • magnesium oxide — magnesia.
  • manganese oxide — a type of metallic oxide used to colour glass purple
  • marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
  • mis-categorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • miscoordinating — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
  • mogi das cruzes — a city in SE Brazil, E of São Paulo.
  • mohandas gandhi — Indira [in-deer-uh] /ɪnˈdɪər ə/ (Show IPA), 1917–84, Indian political leader: prime minister 1966–77 and 1980–84 (daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru).
  • moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
  • non-disparaging — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
  • nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
  • nonwithstanding — Misspelling of notwithstanding.
  • north highlands — a town in central California, near Sacramento.
  • notwithstanding — in spite of; without being opposed or prevented by: Notwithstanding a brilliant defense, he was found guilty. She went to the game anyway, doctor's orders notwithstanding.
  • nuisance ground — a garbage dump.
  • obsidian dating — a method of dating obsidian artifacts or debitage by calculating how long it has taken to produce a given thickness of a hydration layer within such matter.
  • 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.
  • oligohydramnios — (medicine) A deficit of amniotic fluid in the amniotic sac, causing distinctive deformations of the foetus.
  • oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
  • one-night stand — a single performance in one locale, as by a touring theatrical company, before moving on to the next engagement.
  • organic disease — a disease in which there is a structural alteration (opposed to functional disease).
  • organized chaos — a complex situation or process that appears chaotic while having enough order to achieve progress or goals
  • outstandingness — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
  • paphian goddess — Aphrodite, worshiped in Cyprus as the goddess of sexual love.
  • pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
  • prestidigitator — sleight of hand; legerdemain.
  • pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
  • psychodiagnosis — a psychological examination using psychodiagnostic techniques.
  • ramrod straight — having a very straight figure
  • random sampling — a method of selecting a sample (random sample) from a statistical population in such a way that every possible sample that could be selected has a predetermined probability of being selected.
  • robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
  • rogation sunday — the fifth Sunday after Easter; it sees the start of the supplications that are continued during the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
  • rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • scotch highland — any of a breed of small, hardy, usually dun-colored, shaggy-haired beef cattle with long, widespread horns, able to withstand the cold and sparse pasturage of its native western Scottish uplands.
  • securicor guard — a guard who works for Securicor
  • self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • sewage disposal — waste processing
  • shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof
  • silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
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