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15-letter words containing a, g, e, d, i

  • 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
  • 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)
  • mackinac bridge — a suspension bridge over the Straits of Mackinac, connecting the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan: one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. 3800-foot (1158-meter) center span; 7400 feet (2256 meters) in total length.
  • madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
  • magnesium oxide — magnesia.
  • magnetic domain — a portion of a ferromagnetic material where the magnetic moments are aligned with one another because of interactions between molecules or atoms.
  • 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.
  • managing editor — an editor assigned to the supervision and coordination of certain editorial activities of a newspaper, magazine, book publishing company, or the like. Abbreviation: M.E., m.e.
  • mandarin orange — mandarin (def 4).
  • manganese oxide — a type of metallic oxide used to colour glass purple
  • marburg disease — a viral disease producing a severe and often fatal illness with fever, rash, diarrhea, vomiting, and gastrointestinal bleeding, transmitted to humans through contact with infected green monkeys.
  • marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
  • meibomian gland — any of the small sebaceous glands in the eyelid, beneath the conjunctiva
  • mid-heavyweight — a professional wrestler weighing 199–209 pounds (91–95 kg)
  • mid-ocean ridge — any of several seismically active submarine mountain ranges that extend through the Atlantic, Indian, and South Pacific oceans: each is hypothesized to be the locus of seafloor spreading.
  • midgard serpent — a serpent, the child of Loki and Angerboda, who lies wrapped around the world, tail in mouth, and is destined to kill and to be killed by Thor at Ragnarok; Jormungand.
  • mineral kingdom — minerals collectively.
  • mis-categorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • misapprehending — Present participle of misapprehend.
  • mogi das cruzes — a city in SE Brazil, E of São Paulo.
  • 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.
  • moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
  • nearsightedness — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
  • nondegenerative — tending to degenerate.
  • nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
  • not give a damn — If you say that someone does not give a damn about something, you are emphasizing that they do not care about it at all.
  • nuisance ground — a garbage dump.
  • 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.
  • oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
  • on a knife-edge — To be on a knife-edge means to be in a situation in which nobody knows what is going to happen next, or in which one thing is just as likely to happen as another.
  • one-night stand — a single performance in one locale, as by a touring theatrical company, before moving on to the next engagement.
  • orange chromide — an Asian cichlid fish, Etropus maculatus, with a brownish-orange spotted body
  • orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
  • ordinary degree — a university degree without honours
  • 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
  • organized crime — illegal activities co-ordinated by groups
  • organized labor — all workers who are organized in labor unions.
  • outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
  • outstandingness — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
  • overdramatizing — Present participle of overdramatize.
  • oxidizing agent — a substance that oxidizes another substance, being itself reduced in the process. Common oxidizing agents are oxygen, hydrogen peroxide, and ferric salts
  • package holiday — a holiday arranged by a travel company in which your travel and accommodation are booked for you
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