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15-letter words containing a, n, t, i, g, e

  • highland cattle — a breed of cattle with shaggy hair, usually reddish-brown in colour, and long horns
  • 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.
  • honey tangerine — a citrus fruit with a deep-orange pulp, formed by crossing a tangerine and a sweet orange hybrid; Murcott
  • hovering accent — indeterminacy as to which of two consecutive syllables in a line of verse bears the metrical stress, as in any of the first three feet of Slow, slow, / fresh fount, / keep time / with my / salt tears.
  • hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
  • image converter — a device for producing a visual image formed by other electromagnetic radiation such as infrared or ultraviolet radiation or X-rays
  • immaterializing — Present participle of immaterialize.
  • in (the) grease — fat and ready to be killed
  • in the negative — by saying no
  • inertia selling — (in Britain) the illegal practice of sending unrequested goods to householders followed by a bill for the price of the goods if they do not return them
  • information age — a period beginning about 1975 and characterized by the gathering and almost instantaneous transmission of vast amounts of information and by the rise of information-based industries.
  • inside straight — Poker. a set of four cards, as the five, seven, eight, and nine, requiring one card of a denomination next above or below the second or third ranking cards of the set to make a straight.
  • insider trading — the illegal buying and selling of securities by persons acting on privileged information.
  • insignificative — not expressed or denoted by external signs
  • instant message — an electronic message sent in real time via the Internet and therefore immediately available for display on the recipient's screen. Compare text message.
  • insulating tape — adhesive tape, impregnated with a moisture-repelling substance, used to insulate exposed electrical conductors
  • insurance agent — sb who sells insurance policies
  • integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
  • integrationists — Plural form of integrationist.
  • interchangeable — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
  • interchangeably — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
  • interchangement — the act of interchanging
  • intercollegiate — taking place between or participating in activities between different colleges: intercollegiate athletics.
  • interdigitation — An interlinking that resembles the fingers of two hands being locked together.
  • intergeneration — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
  • interiorscaping — The design, installation, and maintenance of interiorscapes.
  • internal energy — a function of thermodynamic variables, as temperature, that represents the internal state of a system that is due to the energies of the molecular constituents of the system. The change in internal energy during a process is equal to the net heat entering the system minus the net work done by the system. Symbol: U.
  • interphalangeal — Between phalanges, as with an interphalangeal joint.
  • interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
  • 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.
  • interrogatories — conveying or expressing a question; interrogative.
  • intertanglement — the state or condition of being intertangled
  • interval signal — a characteristic snatch of music, chimes, etc, transmitted as an identifying signal by a radio station between programme items
  • intransigeantly — intransigently
  • intransigentism — the policy or set of principles of an intransigent
  • intransigentist — an intransigent
  • inunderstanding — (obsolete) Devoid of understanding.
  • investigational — Of, or relating to investigating, or to an investigation.
  • ipod generation — members of the generation of adults born after 1970, who are less financially secure than their parents, due to student debt, high house prices, and job insecurity
  • italian sausage — salami
  • joint agreement — a formal decision about future action which is made by two or more countries, groups, or people
  • junggrammatiker — a group of linguists of the late 19th century who held that phonetic laws are universally valid and allow of no exceptions; neo-grammarians.
  • kindergarteners — a child who attends a kindergarten.
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • knight banneret — banneret1 (def 2).
  • knight errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
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