15-letter words containing d, e, n, g, u
- in-suite dining — In-suite dining in a hotel is when guests eat meals in their rooms.
- indistinguished — (archaic) indistinct.
- into the ground — beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
- inunderstanding — (obsolete) Devoid of understanding.
- langue de boeuf — ox-tongue partisan.
- lantern gurnard — a type of gurnard
- leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
- liquid nitrogen — nitrogen in a liquid state
- listed building — (in Britain) a building officially recognized as having special historical or architectural interest and therefore protected from demolition or alteration
- luggage handler — someone whose job is to handle and direct luggage, esp at an airport
- magna cum laude — with great praise: used in diplomas to grant the next-to-highest of three special honors for grades above the average.
- magnesium oxide — magnesia.
- modern language — one of the literary languages currently in use in Europe, as French, Spanish, or German, treated as a departmental course of study in a school, college, or university.
- mouse droppings — 1. (graphics, operating system, jargon) Pixels (usually single) that are not properly restored when the mouse pointer moves away from a particular location on the screen, producing the appearance that the mouse pointer has left droppings behind. The major causes for this problem are MS-DOS programs that write to the screen memory corresponding to the mouse pointer's current location without hiding the mouse pointer first, and mouse drivers that do not quite support the graphics mode in use. 2. (web, jargon) The client address recorded in a web server's log whenever a client connects to a site. Users may be unaware that their activity is being logged in this way but the potential for misuse of the information is limited.
- nonjudgmentally — not judged or judging on the basis of one's personal standards or opinions: They tried to adopt a nonjudgmental attitude that didn't reflect their own biases. My guidance counselor in high school was sympathetic and nonjudgmental.
- nuisance ground — a garbage dump.
- nuke the fridge — (of a film, etc.) to lose credibility following a particularly ill-judged scene or plot development
- nursing studies — the study of nursing
- ocean greyhound — a fast ship, esp a liner
- off one's guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- office building — building containing offices
- oligonucleotide — a chain of a few nucleotides.
- outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
- outstandingness — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
- painted bunting — a brilliantly colored bunting, Passerina ciris, of the southern U.S.
- pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
- product manager — sb who oversees product development
- pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
- pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
- pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
- public spending — expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
- quadragenarians — Plural form of quadragenarian.
- quarter binding — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
- red jungle fowl — any of several East Indian, gallinaceous birds of the genus Gallus, as G. gallus (red jungle fowl) believed to be the ancestor of the domestic fowl.
- rough and ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
- rough-and-ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
- routeing domain — (networking) (US "routing") A set of routers that exchange routeing information within an administrative domain.
- santa gertrudis — one of an American breed of beef cattle, developed from Shorthorn and Brahman stock for endurance to torrid temperatures.
- scrounge around — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- sebaceous gland — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
- second language — a language learned by a person after his or her native language, especially as a resident of an area where it is in general use.
- second thoughts — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
- secondary group — a group of people with whom one's contacts are detached and impersonal.
- secundogeniture — the state of being the second born child
- self-indulgence — indulging one's own desires, passions, whims, etc., especially without restraint.
- shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
- shoulder-length — Shoulder-length hair is long enough to reach your shoulders.
- silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
- sit in judgment — To sit in judgment means to decide whether or not someone is guilty of doing something wrong.
- sliver building — a very narrow skyscraper designed in response to restriction of the building site or zoning, frequently containing only a single apartment per floor or comparably limited office space.