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15-letter words containing a, s, t, r, g, l

  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • linguistic area — a geographical area in which several languages sharing common features are spoken.
  • living quarters — accommodation
  • living standard — standard of living.
  • look daggers at — to look at with anger or hatred
  • 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.
  • lung transplant — a medical operation in which the lungs are taken out of someone who has died and are placed into another person's body
  • luster painting — a method of decorating glazed pottery with metallic pigment, originated in Persia, popular from the 9th through the mid-19th centuries.
  • mail user agent — (messaging)   (MUA) The program that allows the user to compose and read electronic mail messages. The MUA provides the interface between the user and the Message Transfer Agent. Outgoing mail is eventually handed over to an MTA for delivery while the incoming messages are picked up from where the MTA left it (although MUA's running on single-user machines may pick up mail using POP). Popular MUAs for Unix include elm, mush, pine, and RMAIL.
  • manual steering — Manual steering is steering in which the driver does all the work, without the help of mechanical power.
  • marginalisation — (British) alternative spelling of marginalization.
  • master-planning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
  • messier catalog — a catalog of nonstellar objects compiled by Charles Messier in 1784 and later slightly extended, now known to contain nebulae, galaxies, and star clusters.
  • morale-boosting — A morale-boosting action or event makes people feel more confident and cheerful.
  • natural english — Programming in normal, spoken English. [Sammet 1969, p.768].
  • natural wastage — Natural wastage is the process of employees leaving their jobs because they want to retire or move to other jobs, rather than because their employer makes them leave.
  • negro spiritual — a type of religious song originating among Black slaves in the American South
  • north highlands — a town in central California, near Sacramento.
  • north las vegas — a city in S Nevada.
  • nuclear testing — the process of carrying out a test on a nuclear weapon to determine effectiveness, etc
  • obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
  • oligomerisation — Alternative spelling of oligomerization.
  • optical storage — optical disk drive
  • paralinguistics — the study of paralanguage.
  • personal growth — development as an individual
  • pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
  • pilgrimage site — a shrine or other sacred place that people travel to as an act of religious devotion
  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • plastic surgery — the branch of surgery dealing with the repair or replacement of malformed, injured, or lost organs or tissues of the body, chiefly by the transplant of living tissues.
  • plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
  • pragmaticalness — the quality of being pragmatical or meddlesome
  • pre-legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
  • reality testing — the objective evaluation of situations, defective in certain psychoses, that enable one to distinguish between the external and the internal worlds and between the self and the nonself.
  • registered mail — prepaid first-class mail that has been recorded at a post office prior to delivery for safeguarding against loss, theft, or damage during transmission.
  • regulatory risk — a risk to which private companies are subject, arising from the possibility of legislation or regulations that will affect business being adopted by a government
  • remonstratingly — in an remonstrating or dissenting manner
  • revolving stage — a circular platform divided into segments enabling multiple theater sets to be put in place in advance and in turn rotated into view of the audience.
  • rigel kentaurus — Alpha Centauri.
  • right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
  • rigil kentaurus — Astronomy. Alpha Centauri.
  • rolling targets — a series of targets which are reviewed periodically so that they always extend for the same period into the future
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • sagittal suture — a serrated line on the top of the skull that marks the junction of the two parietal bones
  • scaling circuit — an electronic device or circuit that aggregates electric pulses and gives a single output pulse for a predetermined number of input pulses
  • scarlet tanager — an American tanager, Piranga olivacea, the male of which is bright red with black wings and tail during the breeding season.
  • 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.
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