15-letter words containing a, g, e, n, d
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- linear ordering — an ordering that is reflexive, antisymmetric, transitive, and connected, as less than or equal to on the involved integers
- long-tailed tit — a small European songbird, Aegithalos caudatus, with a black, white, and pink plumage and a very long tail: family Paridae (tits)
- luggage handler — someone whose job is to handle and direct luggage, esp at an airport
- 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.
- magna cum laude — with great praise: used in diplomas to grant the next-to-highest of three special honors for grades above the average.
- 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
- managed economy — an economy in which the government allocates prices of goods and resources
- 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
- 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-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.
- misapprehending — Present participle of misapprehend.
- 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.
- 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.
- nearsightedness — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
- needle exchange — A needle exchange is a place where drug addicts are able to obtain new syringes in exchange for used ones.
- nondegenerative — tending to degenerate.
- 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.
- 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.