15-letter words containing a, g, e, d, l
- holiday cottage — a cottage used for accommodation for a family, couple, etc, on holiday
- holiday feeling — the positive feeling people experience while on holiday and during holiday periods such as the Christmas period
- holiday village — a park with villas where holidaymakers stay and which has a central area with a shop, entertainment, etc
- horned oak gall — a small, round tumor, formed around wasp eggs laid in the branches of a pin oak tree, that disrupts the flow of nutrients to the tree, with consequent defoliation and death.
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- 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.
- 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
- judge of appeal — a judge who sits in a Court of Appeal
- keeling islands — Cocos Islands
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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)
- look daggers at — to look at with anger or hatred
- luggage handler — someone whose job is to handle and direct luggage, esp at an airport
- magna cum laude — with great praise: used in diplomas to grant the next-to-highest of three special honors for grades above the average.
- 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.
- meibomian gland — any of the small sebaceous glands in the eyelid, beneath the conjunctiva
- mineral kingdom — minerals collectively.
- modern language — one of the literary languages currently in use in Europe, as French, Spanish, or German, treated as a departmental course of study in a school, college, or university.
- 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.
- monchengladbach — a city in W North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany.
- mortgage lender — a financial institution which provides money to borrowers for mortgages
- moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
- needle exchange — A needle exchange is a place where drug addicts are able to obtain new syringes in exchange for used ones.
- nonjudgmentally — not judged or judging on the basis of one's personal standards or opinions: They tried to adopt a nonjudgmental attitude that didn't reflect their own biases. My guidance counselor in high school was sympathetic and nonjudgmental.
- nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
- 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.