15-letter words containing a, l, e, g, h
- las vegas night — an evening of casino-style gambling, usually sponsored by a charitable, religious, or other fund-raising organization.
- laser machining — Laser machining is a process in which material is removed from a surface using light from a laser.
- length over all — Nautical. the entire length of a vessel, measured from the foremost point of the bow to the aftermost point of the stern.
- lexicographical — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- 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.
- light artillery — guns and howitzers of small caliber.
- lightheadedness — Alternative spelling of light-headedness.
- like grim death — as if afraid for one's life
- longhorn cattle — cattle of a long-horned breed, usually red or variegated, formerly common in SW US
- low archipelago — a group of French islands in the S Pacific. 332 sq. mi. (860 sq. km).
- luggage handler — someone whose job is to handle and direct luggage, esp at an airport
- magnesium light — the strongly actinic white light produced when magnesium is burned: used in photography, signaling, pyrotechnics, etc.
- magnetorheology — the study of the relationships between the particle and fluid properties of magnetic suspensions.
- mailing machine — a machine that prepares mail for sending, as by addressing, stamping, weighing, etc.
- malpighian tube — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
- marlborough leg — a tapered leg having a square section.
- megalithic tomb — a burial chamber constructed of large stones, either underground or covered by a mound and usually consisting of long transepted corridors (gallery graves) or of a distinct chamber and passage (passage graves). The tombs may date from the 4th millennium bc
- milking machine — an electric machine for milking cows.
- milling machine — a machine tool for rotating a cutter (milling cutter) to produce plane or formed surfaces on a workpiece, usually by moving the work past the cutter.
- monchengladbach — a city in W North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany.
- mother language — a language from which another language is descended; parent language.
- mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
- multiwavelength — Involving, or composed of, multiple wavelengths.
- natural english — Programming in normal, spoken English. [Sammet 1969, p.768].
- needle exchange — A needle exchange is a place where drug addicts are able to obtain new syringes in exchange for used ones.
- neo-hegelianism — Hegelianism as modified by various philosophers of the latter half of the 19th century.
- neuropathologic — Of or pertaining to neuropathology.
- new archaeology — a reorientation of archaeology, dating from the 1960s, that emphasizes an explicitly scientific, problem-oriented, deductive approach to research.
- nonexchangeable — capable of being exchanged.
- nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
- north las vegas — a city in S Nevada.
- old high german — High German before 1100. Abbreviation: OHG.
- oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
- ophthalmoplegia — Paralysis of the muscles within or surrounding the eye.
- organochlorines — Plural form of organochlorine.
- orthokeratology — a technique for correcting refractive errors in vision by changing the shape of the cornea with the temporary use of progressively flatter hard contact lenses.
- package holiday — a holiday arranged by a travel company in which your travel and accommodation are booked for you
- paedophile ring — a group of people who take part in illegal sexual activity involving children
- palaeogeography — the study of geographical features of the geological past
- palaeontography — the branch of palaeontology concerned with the description of fossils
- palaeopathology — the study of diseases of ancient man and fossil animals
- palaeophytology — the study of ancient botany
- paleogeophysics — (used with a plural verb) inferred geophysical conditions or processes of designated periods of the geologic past.
- peachblow glass — an American art glass made in various pale colors and sometimes having an underlayer of milk glass.
- personal growth — development as an individual
- photodegradable — (of a substance) capable of being broken down by light.
- photoheliograph — an instrument for photographing the sun, consisting of a camera and a specially adapted telescope.
- phototelegraphy — facsimile (def 2a).
- phrenologically — in a manner relating to phrenology
- physical change — a usually reversible change in the physical properties of a substance, as size or shape: Freezing a liquid is a physical change.