15-letter words containing a, l, i, n, g, o
- immunopathology — the study of diseases having an immunologic or allergic basis.
- imperial gallon — a British gallon used in liquid and dry measurement equivalent to 1.2 U.S. gallons, or 4.54 liters.
- in a good light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- in nothing flat — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- indicator light — a device for indicating that a motor vehicle is about to turn left or right; blinker
- integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
- intercollegiate — taking place between or participating in activities between different colleges: intercollegiate athletics.
- interrogatingly — So as to interrogate; with urgent or bullying questioning.
- interrogational — the act of interrogating; questioning.
- interrogatively — In an interrogative manner; by means of a question.
- investigational — Of, or relating to investigating, or to an investigation.
- island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
- journal bearing — a plain cylindrical bearing to support a shaft or axle
- kangaroo island — an island in the Indian Ocean, off South Australia. Area: 4350 sq km (1680 sq miles)
- knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
- lactovegetarian — Also called lactarian. a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products.
- lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)
- laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
- laser ring gyro — a system of aerial navigation in which rotation is sensed by the measuring of the frequency shift of laser light in a closed circuit in a horizontal plane
- lay a finger on — to harm
- leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
- lemon-grass oil — a yellowish to brownish oil distilled from the leaves of certain lemon grasses, especially Cymbopogon citratus, used chiefly in perfumery.
- leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
- leukaemogenesis — the development of leukaemia
- lexical scoping — lexical scope
- limiting factor — Physiology. the slowest, therefore rate-limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps.
- linear ordering — an ordering that is reflexive, antisymmetric, transitive, and connected, as less than or equal to on the involved integers
- linear topology — (theory) A linear topology on a left A-module M is a topology on M that is invariant under translations and admits a fundamental system of neighborhood of 0 that consists of submodules of M. If there is such a topology, M is said to be linearly topologized. If A is given a discrete topology, then M becomes a topological A-module with respect to a linear topology.
- loading program — a series of instructions entered automatically in a program that starts the processing.
- logging company — a company that fells trees and sells timber
- long parliament — the Parliament that assembled November 3, 1640, was expelled by Cromwell in 1653, reconvened in 1659, and was dissolved in 1660.
- long-grain rice — a type of rice that has long grains, rather than round grains
- long-tailed tit — a small European songbird, Aegithalos caudatus, with a black, white, and pink plumage and a very long tail: family Paridae (tits)
- lord-in-waiting — a nobleman in attendance on a British monarch or the Prince of Wales.
- lost generation — the generation of men and women who came of age during or immediately following World War I: viewed, as a result of their war experiences and the social upheaval of the time, as cynical, disillusioned, and without cultural or emotional stability.
- lowland gorilla — the eastern lowland gorilla or western lowland gorilla. See under gorilla.
- lubricating oil — an oily substance that is used to cover or treat machinery so as to lessen friction
- magnetic bottle — Physics. a magnetic field so shaped that it can confine a plasma: used in a proposed design for fusion reactors.
- magnetoelectric — of or relating to the induction of electric current or electromotive force by means of permanent magnets.
- magnolia family — the plant family Magnoliaceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, often showy flowers with a spiral arrangement of their floral parts, and conelike fruit, and including the cucumber tree, magnolia, tulip tree, and umbrella tree.
- mahogany family — the plant family Meliaceae, characterized by tropical and subtropical trees and shrubs having alternate, pinnate leaves, usually branched clusters of flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or leathery capsule, and including the chinaberry, cedars of the genus Cedrela, and mahoganies of the genera Swietenia and Khaya.
- main-topgallant — the main-topgallantmast, its sail, or its yard.
- malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
- malpighian body — Also called kidney corpuscle, Malpighian body. the structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule.
- marginalisation — (British) alternative spelling of marginalization.
- marginalization — to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power: the government's attempts to marginalize criticism and restore public confidence.
- marigold window — wheel window.
- meibomian gland — any of the small sebaceous glands in the eyelid, beneath the conjunctiva
- metacognitively — In a metacognitive way.
- metallo-organic — organometallic.