15-letter words containing a, s, t, r, g
- insider trading — the illegal buying and selling of securities by persons acting on privileged information.
- insurance agent — sb who sells insurance policies
- integrationists — Plural form of integrationist.
- interiorscaping — The design, installation, and maintenance of interiorscapes.
- interrogatories — conveying or expressing a question; interrogative.
- 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.
- kindergarteners — a child who attends a kindergarten.
- labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
- langres plateau — a calcareous plateau of E France north of Dijon between the Seine and the Saône, reaching over 580 m (1900 ft): forms a watershed between rivers flowing to the Mediterranean and to the English Channel
- large intestine — intestine (def 3).
- largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
- leading strings — strings or straps formerly used to guide and support a young child learning to walk
- leaving present — a present given to a person when they leave a job, place etc
- legacy software — legacy system
- 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.
- magnesioferrite — (mineralogy) A magnesium iron oxide mineral, a member of the magnetite series of spinels, which forms black metallic octahedral crystals.
- magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
- magnetic stripe — magnetic strip.
- 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.
- margaritiferous — yielding or wearing pearls
- marginalisation — (British) alternative spelling of marginalization.
- master sergeant — Army, Air Force, Marine Corps. a noncommissioned officer ranking next to the highest noncommissioned officer.
- master's degree — a degree awarded by a graduate school or department, usually to a person who has completed at least one year of graduate study.
- 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.
- midgard serpent — a serpent, the child of Loki and Angerboda, who lies wrapped around the world, tail in mouth, and is destined to kill and to be killed by Thor at Ragnarok; Jormungand.
- mis-categorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- miscoordinating — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- misregistration — the act of registering.
- mitigate a risk — If something or someone mitigates a risk, they make the effects of a loss or risk less unpleasant, harmful, or serious.
- morale-boosting — A morale-boosting action or event makes people feel more confident and cheerful.
- moving stairway — escalator (def 1).
- napier-hastings — a seaport on E North Island, in New Zealand.
- narcotics agent — an undercover agent who provides information to the police about illegal drugs, illegal drug trafficking, and users of illegal drugs
- nasopharyngitis — (medicine) An inflammation of the nasal passages, and of the upper pharynx.
- 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.
- nearsightedness — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.