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15-letter words containing d, i, g, l, o, s

  • guild socialism — a form of socialism developed in England in the 20th century, emphasizing decentralization of industry and services with control to be vested in autonomous guilds of workers.
  • idiot's delight — any variety of the card game solitaire.
  • island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
  • kangaroo island — an island in the Indian Ocean, off South Australia. Area: 4350 sq km (1680 sq miles)
  • leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
  • logical address — virtual address
  • longshore drift — beach drift.
  • longsightedness — Farsight; farsightedness; far sight; long sight.
  • loving-kindness — tender kindness motivated by or expressing affection.
  • moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
  • nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
  • north highlands — a town in central California, near Sacramento.
  • 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.
  • oligohydramnios — (medicine) A deficit of amniotic fluid in the amniotic sac, causing distinctive deformations of the foetus.
  • oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
  • posthole digger — a tool or device for digging a posthole.
  • random sampling — a method of selecting a sample (random sample) from a statistical population in such a way that every possible sample that could be selected has a predetermined probability of being selected.
  • religious order — monks: monastery
  • rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • rouget de lisleClaude Joseph [klohd zhaw-zef] /kloʊd ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1760–1836, French army officer and composer of songs: wrote and composed Marseillaise.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • scolding bridle — branks.
  • scotch highland — any of a breed of small, hardy, usually dun-colored, shaggy-haired beef cattle with long, widespread horns, able to withstand the cold and sparse pasturage of its native western Scottish uplands.
  • second blessing — an experience of sanctification coming after conversion.
  • self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • sewage disposal — waste processing
  • shoulder girdle — pectoral girdle (def 2).
  • sigmoid flexure — Zoology. an S -shaped curve in a body part.
  • silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
  • sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
  • smoking-related — (of a disease, illness, etc) caused by smoking tobacco, etc
  • social drinking — the practice of drinking alcohol occasionally and usually only in social situations
  • social spending — the money that is spent on welfare payments
  • social standing — a person's status or social class in society
  • social-drinking — a person who drinks alcoholic beverages usually in the company of others and is in control of his or her drinking.
  • soft-boiled egg — boiled egg with runny yolk
  • soul-destroying — Activities or situations that are soul-destroying make you depressed, because they are boring or because there is no hope of improvement.
  • sound-and-light — combining sound effects or music with unusual lighting displays: to promote a product with a spectacular sound-and-light presentation.
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