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15-letter words containing a, n, l, o, g

  • holding company — a company that controls other companies through stock ownership but that usually does not engage directly in their productive operations (distinguished from parent company).
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • holding paddock — a paddock in which cattle or sheep are kept temporarily, as before shearing, etc
  • holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
  • holiday feeling — the positive feeling people experience while on holiday and during holiday periods such as the Christmas period
  • horned oak gall — a small, round tumor, formed around wasp eggs laid in the branches of a pin oak tree, that disrupts the flow of nutrients to the tree, with consequent defoliation and death.
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • hyperpolarizing — Present participle of hyperpolarize.
  • hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
  • ignatius loyola — Saint Ignatius of (Iñigo López de Loyola) 1491–1556, Spanish soldier and ecclesiastic: founder of the Society of Jesus.
  • immunologically — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
  • 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
  • job enlargement — a widening of the range of tasks performed by an employee in order to provide variety in the activities undertaken
  • 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).
  • knowledge-based — characterized by the dominance of information services as an area of growth
  • 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)
  • langston hughes — Charles Evans, 1862–1948, U.S. jurist and statesman: chief justice of the U.S. 1930–41.
  • language school — A language school is a private school where a foreign language is taught.
  • langue de boeuf — ox-tongue partisan.
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • laryngotracheal — of, relating to, or involving the larynx and trachea.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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-case clock — tall-case clock.
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