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15-letter words containing a, r, p, e, g

  • spaghetti strap — a thin, often rounded strip of fabric used in women's clothing, as to form a shoulder strap on a bare-shouldered garment.
  • spark generator — an alternating-current power source with a condenser discharging across a spark gap.
  • sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
  • specific charge — the ratio of the charge on a particle to the mass of the particle.
  • speech training — training designed to improve spoken skills, such as voice projection
  • spermatogenesis — the origin and development of spermatozoa.
  • spherical angle — an angle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
  • sporting chance — an even or fair opportunity for a favorable outcome in an enterprise, as winning in a game of chance or in any kind of contest: They gave the less experienced players a sporting chance by handicapping the experts.
  • spraddle-legged — moving with or having the legs wide apart: a spraddle-legged walk.
  • 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
  • spread-eagleism — boastfulness or bombast, especially in the display of patriotic or nationalistic pride in the U.S.; flag-waving.
  • spring mattress — a mattress containing an arrangement of spiral springs
  • spring-cleaning — a complete cleaning of a place, as a home, done traditionally in the spring of the year.
  • straining piece — (in a queen-post roof) a horizontal beam uniting the tops of the two queen posts, and resisting the thrust of the roof.
  • supergiant star — Astronomy. an exceptionally luminous star whose diameter is more than 100 times that of the sun, as Betelgeuse or Antares.
  • talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
  • target practice — practice at hitting the target in a sport such as archery or shooting
  • telegraph plant — a tick trefoil, Desmodium motorium, of the legume family, native to tropical Asia, noted for the spontaneous, jerking, signallike motions of its leaflets.
  • telegraphically — of or relating to the telegraph.
  • telephotography — photography of distant objects, using a telephoto lens.
  • tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
  • thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
  • the grim reaper — death
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • thermobarograph — a device that simultaneously records the temperature and pressure of the atmosphere
  • thermogeography — the study of the geographical variation and distribution of temperature.
  • thought pattern — habitual way of thinking
  • tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
  • trading partner — a person, organization, or country with whom somebody customarily does business
  • treacle pudding — a sponge cake with syrup on top
  • triple integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of three variables and which requires three applications of the integration process to evaluate.
  • truth-value gap — the possibility in certain semantic systems of a statement being neither true nor false while also not being determinately of any third truth-value, as all my children are asleep uttered by a childless person
  • tubal pregnancy — pregnancy that grows in fallopian tube
  • unchoreographed — not choreographed; not pre-arranged or pre-prepared; unplanned
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • upper arlington — a city in central Ohio, near Columbus.
  • wearing apparel — clothing; garments.
  • weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
  • wedding planner — sb hired to organize a marriage day
  • xerographically — In a xerographic way; by xerography.
  • xeroradiography — an x-ray utilizing a specially coated plate that allows a picture to be developed without the use of liquid chemicals.
  • zoogeographical — Pertaining to zoogeography.
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