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15-letter words containing d, i, g, n, t

  • 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.
  • sounding rocket — a rocket equipped with instruments for making meteorological observations in the upper atmosphere.
  • speeding ticket — notice of traffic violation
  • stage direction — an instruction written into the script of a play, indicating stage actions, movements of performers, or production requirements.
  • stamping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
  • standard lining — a system for aligning type so that all fonts of the same point size have a common baseline.
  • standing charge — fixed energy costs
  • standing orders — Military. (formerly) a general order always in force in a command and establishing uniform procedures for it; standard operating procedure.
  • starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
  • steamed pudding — a traditional pudding containing fat, sugar, eggs, flour, and other ingredients, which is steamed
  • steroidogenesis — the formation of steroids, as by the adrenal cortex, testes, and ovaries.
  • sticky-fingered — given to thieving
  • stomping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
  • subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
  • svedberg (unit) — a unit of time, equal to 10-13 second, used in determining the rate of sedimentation of a macromolecule in an ultracentrifuge
  • system building — a method of building in which prefabricated components are used to speed the construction of buildings
  • take lying down — to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline. Antonyms: stand.
  • target audience — the target audience of a programme is the group of people that the programme-makers are trying to persuade to watch or listen to it
  • the high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority in a dispute
  • the living dead — dead people that have been brought back to life by a supernatural force
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • the undersigned — the person or persons who have signed at the foot of a document, statement, etc
  • thought reading — mind reading.
  • tightfistedness — the quality or state of being tightfisted
  • tracking device — an electronic security device which allows you to monitor the location of a person or object, esp a vehicle
  • trading account — an account similar to a traditional bank account, holding cash and securities, and administered by an investment dealer
  • trading capital — the total amount of money available for buying assets
  • trading company — a company that is owned by the people who have bought shares in that company
  • trading partner — a person, organization, or country with whom somebody customarily does business
  • trading profits — profits made from the buying and selling of goods and services
  • training ground — an area where people prepare for sporting competitions, with activities primarily concentrating on skills and fitness
  • treacle pudding — a sponge cake with syrup on top
  • tunbridge wells — a city in SW Kent, in SE England: mineral springs; resort.
  • unaccommodating — easy to deal with; eager to help or please; obliging.
  • understandingly — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • undisappointing — not disappointing
  • undistinguished — having no distinguishing marks or features.
  • unmitigatedness — the state of being unmitigated
  • untransmigrated — not transmigrated; not transferred or caused to be transferred
  • variant reading — an alternative interpretation of a word in a text to the one generally accepted
  • vortex shedding — the process by which vortices formed continuously by the aerodynamic conditions associated with a solid body in a gas or air stream are carried downstream by the flow in the form of a vortex street
  • wage indexation — the linking of wages to an index representing the cost of living, so that they are automatically adjusted up or down as that rises or falls
  • weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
  • wedding banquet — a lavish meal served after a wedding ceremony
  • wedding present — a present given to a couple when they get married
  • well-integrated — combining or coordinating separate elements so as to provide a harmonious, interrelated whole: an integrated plot; an integrated course of study.
  • withholding tax — that part of an employee's tax liability withheld by the employer from wages or salary and paid directly to the government.
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