15-letter words containing a, l, g, e, s, i
- pragmaticalness — the quality of being pragmatical or meddlesome
- pre-legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
- primary sealing — Primary sealing is devices used for sealing tanks, to reduce emissions, often made of foam.
- public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
- pyramid selling — Pyramid selling is a method of selling in which one person buys a supply of a particular product direct from the manufacturer and then sells it to a number of other people at an increased price. These people sell it on to others in a similar way, but eventually the final buyers are only able to sell the product for less than they paid for it.
- quasi-religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- range paralysis — Marek's disease.
- reading glasses — spectacles
- reality testing — the objective evaluation of situations, defective in certain psychoses, that enable one to distinguish between the external and the internal worlds and between the self and the nonself.
- registered mail — prepaid first-class mail that has been recorded at a post office prior to delivery for safeguarding against loss, theft, or damage during transmission.
- regulatory risk — a risk to which private companies are subject, arising from the possibility of legislation or regulations that will affect business being adopted by a government
- relapsing fever — one of a group of fevers characterized by relapses, occurring in many tropical countries, and caused by several species of spirochetes transmitted by several species of lice and ticks.
- remonstratingly — in an remonstrating or dissenting manner
- reversing falls — a series of rapids in the Saint John River, New Brunswick, Canada, the flow of which regularly reverses itself owing to the force an incoming tide
- revolving stage — a circular platform divided into segments enabling multiple theater sets to be put in place in advance and in turn rotated into view of the audience.
- rigel kentaurus — Alpha Centauri.
- rigil kentaurus — Astronomy. Alpha Centauri.
- rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- rolling targets — a series of targets which are reviewed periodically so that they always extend for the same period into the future
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- royal engineers — a branch of the British army that undertakes the building of fortifications, mines, bridges, and other engineering works
- sagittal suture — a serrated line on the top of the skull that marks the junction of the two parietal bones
- saguia el hamra — the N part of Western Sahara.
- school teaching — School teaching is the work done by teachers in a school.
- scottish gaelic — the Gaelic of the Hebrides and the Highlands of Scotland, also spoken as a second language in Nova Scotia.
- self-abnegation — self-denial or self-sacrifice.
- self-afflicting — to distress with mental or bodily pain; trouble greatly or grievously: to be afflicted with arthritis.
- self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
- self-flattering — praise and exaggeration of one's own achievements coupled with a denial or glossing over of one's faults or failings; self-congratulation.
- self-generating — producing from within itself.
- self-generation — production or reproduction of something without the aid of an external agent; spontaneous generation.
- self-immolating — of, relating to, or tending toward self-immolation.
- self-lacerating — to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
- self-regulating — adjusting, ruling, or governing itself without outside interference; operating or functioning without externally imposed controls or regulations: a self-regulating economy; the self-regulating market.
- self-regulation — control by oneself or itself, as in an economy, business organization, etc., especially such control as exercised independently of governmental supervision, laws, or the like.
- self-regulative — used for or capable of controlling or adjusting oneself or itself: a self-regulative device.
- self-satisfying — effecting satisfaction to oneself.
- self-sustaining — self-supporting.
- self-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
- semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
- senior wrangler — (at Cambridge University) a candidate who has obtained first-class honours in Part II of the mathematics tripos and got the highest marks
- serial marriage — a form of monogamy characterized by several successive, short-term marriages over the course of a lifetime.
- serial monogamy — a form of monogamy characterized by several successive, short-term marriages over the course of a lifetime.
- sewage disposal — waste processing
- shire highlands — an upland area of S Malawi. Average height: 900 m (3000 ft)
- siege mentality — a state of mind whereby one believes that one is being constantly attacked, oppressed, or isolated.
- significatively — serving to signify.
- silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
- singapore sling — a cocktail of gin, cherry brandy, sugar, and water.
- 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.