15-letter words containing a, d, g
- hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
- idealized image — a personal standard of perfection against which one's actual thinking, behavior, and appearance are compared.
- ideographically — an ideogram.
- immunodiagnosis — serodiagnosis.
- 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.
- indy car racing — a US form of professional motor racing around banked oval tracks
- infrared galaxy — a galaxy that radiates strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- inside straight — Poker. a set of four cards, as the five, seven, eight, and nine, requiring one card of a denomination next above or below the second or third ranking cards of the set to make a straight.
- 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
- insider trading — the illegal buying and selling of securities by persons acting on privileged information.
- integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
- interdigitation — An interlinking that resembles the fingers of two hands being locked together.
- interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
- inunderstanding — (obsolete) Devoid of understanding.
- ipod generation — members of the generation of adults born after 1970, who are less financially secure than their parents, due to student debt, high house prices, and job insecurity
- 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.
- judge of appeal — a judge who sits in a Court of Appeal
- kangaroo island — an island in the Indian Ocean, off South Australia. Area: 4350 sq km (1680 sq miles)
- keeling islands — Cocos Islands
- kindergarteners — a child who attends a kindergarten.
- kissing disease — infectious mononucleosis.
- knowledge-based — characterized by the dominance of information services as an area of growth
- 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.
- langue de boeuf — ox-tongue partisan.
- lantern gurnard — a type of gurnard
- 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
- leaf-footed bug — any of numerous plant-sucking or predaceous bugs of the family Coreidae, typically having leaflike legs: several species are pests of food crops.
- 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.