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15-letter words containing d, e, s, g

  • ladies' gallery — a gallery in the old House of Commons set aside for women spectators
  • lady's-earrings — any of several plants having pendent flowers thought to resemble earrings, as the jewelweed or the fuchsia.
  • laminated glass — Laminated glass is safety glass in which a transparent plastic film is placed between plates of glass.
  • leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
  • leading strings — strings or straps formerly used to guide and support a young child learning to walk
  • light and shade — If you say that there is light and shade in something such as a performance, you mean you like it because different parts of it are different in tone or mood.
  • lightheadedness — Alternative spelling of light-headedness.
  • listed building — (in Britain) a building officially recognized as having special historical or architectural interest and therefore protected from demolition or alteration
  • logical address — virtual address
  • longshore drift — beach drift.
  • longsightedness — Farsight; farsightedness; far sight; long sight.
  • look daggers at — to look at with anger or hatred
  • loving-kindness — tender kindness motivated by or expressing affection.
  • madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
  • magnesium oxide — magnesia.
  • mailing address — postal or delivery address
  • manganese oxide — a type of metallic oxide used to colour glass purple
  • marburg disease — a viral disease producing a severe and often fatal illness with fever, rash, diarrhea, vomiting, and gastrointestinal bleeding, transmitted to humans through contact with infected green monkeys.
  • marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • misapprehending — Present participle of misapprehend.
  • mogi das cruzes — a city in SE Brazil, E of São Paulo.
  • 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.
  • moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
  • nearsightedness — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
  • night blindness — a condition of the eyes in which vision is normal in daylight but abnormally poor at night or in a dim light; nyctalopia.
  • nitriding steel — any steel suitable for casehardening by nitriding.
  • nitrogen oxides — Nitrogen oxides are compounds of nitrogen and oxygen produced during combustion.
  • nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
  • nuisance ground — a garbage dump.
  • nursing studies — the study of nursing
  • off one's guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
  • old age pension — An old age pension is a regular amount of money that people receive from the government when they have retired from work.
  • oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
  • one-night stand — a single performance in one locale, as by a touring theatrical company, before moving on to the next engagement.
  • onward progress — progress that advances or improves (a situation, etc)
  • orangeman's day — the 12th of July, celebrated by Protestants in Northern Ireland to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne (1690)
  • orangemen's day — July 12, an annual celebration in Northern Ireland and certain cities having a large Irish section, especially Liverpool, to mark both the victory of William III over James II at the Battle of the Boyne, July 1, 1690, and the Battle of Augbrim, July 12, 1690.
  • organic disease — a disease in which there is a structural alteration (opposed to functional disease).
  • organized chaos — a complex situation or process that appears chaotic while having enough order to achieve progress or goals
  • ortega saavedra — (José) Daniel [haw-se dah-nyel] /hɔˈsɛ dɑˈnyɛl/ (Show IPA), born 1945, Nicaraguan political leader: president 1985–90.
  • outstandingness — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
  • packing density — a measure of the amount of data that can be held by unit length of a storage medium, such as magnetic tape
  • paget's disease — Pathology. a chronic disease characterized by episodic accelerated bone resorption and growth of abnormal replacement bone, causing bone pain, deformation, fractures, and osteosarcoma; osteitis deformans.
  • paphian goddess — Aphrodite, worshiped in Cyprus as the goddess of sexual love.
  • pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
  • posthole digger — a tool or device for digging a posthole.
  • pre-advertising — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
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