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15-letter words containing a, g, l, e, t, s

  • siege mentality — a state of mind whereby one believes that one is being constantly attacked, oppressed, or isolated.
  • significatively — serving to signify.
  • single standard — a single set of principles or rules applying to everyone, as a single moral code applying to both men and women, especially in sexual behavior. Compare double standard.
  • single-breasted — (of a coat, jacket, etc.) having a front closure directly in the center with only a narrow overlap secured by a single button or row of buttons.
  • slab plastering — coarse plastering, as between the studs in a half-timbered wall.
  • sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
  • sleeping tablet — A sleeping tablet is the same as a sleeping pill.
  • sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
  • smoking-related — (of a disease, illness, etc) caused by smoking tobacco, etc
  • snaggle toothed — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
  • snaggle-toothed — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
  • snapping beetle — click beetle.
  • snapping turtle — either of two large, edible, freshwater turtles of the family Chelydridae, of North and Central America, having a large head and powerful hooked jaws, especially the common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina.
  • social heritage — the entire inherited pattern of cultural activity present in a society.
  • social register — a directory or list of people prominent in the fashionable society of a given area
  • sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
  • stacking swivel — a metal swivel attached to the stock of a military rifle for use in hooking three rifles together to form a stack.
  • starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
  • steel engraving — a method of incising letters, designs, etc., on steel.
  • stereologically — by way of stereology or in a stereological manner
  • strike the flag — to relinquish command, esp of a ship
  • string variable — data on which arithmetical operations will not be performed
  • structural gene — cistron.
  • subject catalog — a catalog having entries listed by subject only.
  • sulfiting agent — sulfite (def 2).
  • summer triangle — a group of three first-magnitude stars (Deneb, Vega, and Altair) visible during the summer in the N skies
  • surgical strike — a military action designed to destroy a particular target without harming other people or damaging other buildings near it
  • swallow-tanager — a tropical American bird, Tersina viridis, related to the true tanagers but with longer, swallowlike wings.
  • synergistically — pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling synergy: a synergistic effect.
  • syntax language — a metalanguage used to refer to the grammatical or other formal features of an object language.
  • tamarisk gerbil — gerbil (def 2).
  • tangible assets — valuable items: cash, property, etc.
  • terra sigillata — Arretine ware.
  • thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
  • the anglo-irish — the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent
  • the everlasting — God
  • the saint leger — an annual horse race run at Doncaster since 1776: one of the classics of the flat-racing season
  • tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
  • tintagel castle — a ruined castle on a promontory in SW England on the W coast of Cornwall, which is the legendary birthplace of King Arthur
  • toughened glass — glass that has been made stronger using chemical or thermal treatments so that it will not break easily
  • training wheels — a pair of small wheels attached one on each side of the rear wheel of a bicycle for stability while one is learning to ride.
  • transfer lounge — the place in an airport where you wait for a transfer from one flight to another
  • transgressional — of or relating to transgression
  • ultra-religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
  • ulysses s grant — Cary (Archibald Leach) 1904–86, U.S. actor, born in England.
  • understandingly — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • universal stage — a small theodolite mounted on the stage of a polarizing microscope and used in the petrographic analysis of rocks.
  • vegetable salad — any salad consisting of vegetables, such as cabbage, carrots, beans, etc, not usually included in a green salad
  • vegetable sheep — any of various species of the genus Raoulia, esp R. mammillaris or R. eximia, of New Zealand rocky mountains: a small low bush having white flowers and hairy leaves which, from a distance, make it look like a sheep
  • vertical angles — one of two opposite and equal angles formed by the intersection of two lines.
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