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15-letter words containing a, d, g

  • steamed pudding — a traditional pudding containing fat, sugar, eggs, flour, and other ingredients, which is steamed
  • storage disease — a metabolic disorder characterized by excessive storage in certain cells of normal metabolic intermediates, as fats, iron, and carbohydrates.
  • straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
  • straightforward — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
  • stranger danger — the potential or perceived risk posed by unknown people to children and about which it may be advisable to warn them
  • sturm und drang — a style or movement of German literature of the latter half of the 18th century: characterized chiefly by impetuosity of manner, exaltation of individual sensibility and intuitive perception, opposition to established forms of society and thought, and extreme nationalism.
  • subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
  • surgical needle — a needle for suturing.
  • swedish massage — a massage employing techniques of manipulation and muscular exercise systematized in Sweden in the 19th century.
  • take down a peg — to lower the pride or conceit of; humble or dispirit
  • take lying down — to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline. Antonyms: stand.
  • take the pledge — a solemn promise or agreement to do or refrain from doing something: a pledge of aid; a pledge not to wage war.
  • target audience — the target audience of a programme is the group of people that the programme-makers are trying to persuade to watch or listen to it
  • the greater dog — the constellation Canis Major
  • the living dead — dead people that have been brought back to life by a supernatural force
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • thought reading — mind reading.
  • to change hands — When something changes hands, its ownership changes, usually because it is sold to someone else.
  • to get ahold of — to manage to find, contact, or obtain someone or something
  • to grab hold of — Hold is used in expressions such as grab hold of, catch hold of, and get hold of, to indicate that you close your hand tightly around something, for example to stop something moving or falling.
  • to sow gapeseed — to stare in a gaping manner instead of attending to business
  • toughened glass — glass that has been made stronger using chemical or thermal treatments so that it will not break easily
  • tracking device — an electronic security device which allows you to monitor the location of a person or object, esp a vehicle
  • trade agreement — commercial treaty between nations
  • trading account — an account similar to a traditional bank account, holding cash and securities, and administered by an investment dealer
  • trading capital — the total amount of money available for buying assets
  • trading company — a company that is owned by the people who have bought shares in that company
  • trading partner — a person, organization, or country with whom somebody customarily does business
  • trading profits — profits made from the buying and selling of goods and services
  • training ground — an area where people prepare for sporting competitions, with activities primarily concentrating on skills and fitness
  • treacle pudding — a sponge cake with syrup on top
  • unaccommodating — easy to deal with; eager to help or please; obliging.
  • unchoreographed — not choreographed; not pre-arranged or pre-prepared; unplanned
  • understandingly — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • undisappointing — not disappointing
  • unknowledgeable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • unmitigatedness — the state of being unmitigated
  • untransmigrated — not transmigrated; not transferred or caused to be transferred
  • uropygial gland — a gland opening on the back at the base of the tail in most birds that secretes an oily fluid used by the bird in preening its feathers.
  • us savings bond — A US Savings bond is a long-term bond issued by the US government that is considered low-risk.
  • vaginal dryness — abnormal dryness of the vagina, caused by lack of natural lubrication
  • van diemen gulf — an inlet of the Timor Sea in N Australia, in the Northern Territory
  • variant reading — an alternative interpretation of a word in a text to the one generally accepted
  • vegetable salad — any salad consisting of vegetables, such as cabbage, carrots, beans, etc, not usually included in a green salad
  • vending machine — a coin-operated machine for selling small articles, beverages, etc.
  • völkerwanderung — the migration of peoples, esp of Germanic and Slavic peoples into S and W Europe from 2nd to 11th centuries
  • voltage divider — a resistor or series of resistors connected to a voltage source and used to provide voltages that are fractions of that of the source.
  • voronoi diagram — (mathematics, graphics)   (Or "Voronoi tessellation", "Voronoi decomposition", "Dirichlet tessellation", After Georgy Feodosevich Voronoy) For a set S of points in a Euclidean space, the partition Vor(S) of the plane into the voronoi polygons associated with the members of S, where each polygon is defined by the set of points nearer to some given point in S than to any other point in S. The Voronoi diagram is the dual of the Delaunay triangulation of S.
  • wage indexation — the linking of wages to an index representing the cost of living, so that they are automatically adjusted up or down as that rises or falls
  • walking holiday — a holiday on which you walk a lot, esp in the countryside
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