15-letter words containing a, n, g, r, i, l
- rotary drilling — Rotary drilling is the use of a continuous circular motion of the drill bit to make a hole.
- 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
- rubbing alcohol — a poisonous solution of about 70 percent isopropyl or denatured ethyl alcohol, usually containing a perfume oil, used chiefly in massaging.
- rudyard kipling — (Joseph) Rudyard [ruhd-yerd] /ˈrʌd yərd/ (Show IPA), 1865–1936, English author: Nobel Prize 1907.
- salivary glands — any of several glands, as the submaxillary glands, that secrete saliva.
- saviour sibling — a child conceived through IVF and screened for compatibility with a terminally or seriously ill sibling in order to provide organ or cell donations as a form of treatment
- scaling circuit — an electronic device or circuit that aggregates electric pulses and gives a single output pulse for a predetermined number of input pulses
- 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-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.
- 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 monogamy — a form of monogamy characterized by several successive, short-term marriages over the course of a lifetime.
- shire highlands — an upland area of S Malawi. Average height: 900 m (3000 ft)
- sibling rivalry — the feeling of competitiveness that often exists between brothers and sisters
- 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.
- 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.
- slavonian grebe — a N Eurasian or N American grebe with reddish underside and a black and gold crest; Podiceps auritus
- smoking-related — (of a disease, illness, etc) caused by smoking tobacco, etc
- 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 drinking — the practice of drinking alcohol occasionally and usually only in social situations
- social-drinking — a person who drinks alcoholic beverages usually in the company of others and is in control of his or her drinking.
- sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
- spherical angle — an angle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
- spread sampling — the selection of a corpus for statistical analysis by selecting a number of short passages at random throughout the work and considering their aggregation
- spring-cleaning — a complete cleaning of a place, as a home, done traditionally in the spring of the year.
- standard lining — a system for aligning type so that all fonts of the same point size have a common baseline.
- starting blocks — the rigid blocks adjustable at an angle and mounted on a track against which a runner's shoes are placed to aid in starting
- starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
- starting pistol — a pistol used to give the signal to start a race
- starting salary — an employee's initial rate of pay
- starting stalls — a line of stalls in which horses are enclosed at the start of a race and from which they are released by the simultaneous springing open of retaining barriers at the front of each stall
- steel engraving — a method of incising letters, designs, etc., on steel.
- string variable — data on which arithmetical operations will not be performed
- summer triangle — a group of three first-magnitude stars (Deneb, Vega, and Altair) visible during the summer in the N skies
- surgical needle — a needle for suturing.
- synergistically — pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling synergy: a synergistic effect.
- talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
- 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
- thermal imaging — Thermal imaging is the use of special equipment that can detect the heat produced by people or things and use it to produce images of them.
- toilet training — child: process of learning to use toilet
- trading capital — the total amount of money available for buying assets