15-letter words containing d, i, n, g, e, s
- hedonic damages — compensation based on what the victim of a crime might have earned in the future
- high-handedness — condescending or presumptuous; overbearing; arbitrary: He has a highhanded manner.
- huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
- in the doghouse — a small shelter for a dog.
- in-suite dining — In-suite dining in a hotel is when guests eat meals in their rooms.
- indigestibility — The state of being indigestible.
- indistinguished — (archaic) indistinct.
- inside straight — Poker. a set of four cards, as the five, seven, eight, and nine, requiring one card of a denomination next above or below the second or third ranking cards of the set to make a straight.
- insider dealing — dealing in company securities on a recognized stock exchange, with a view to making a profit or avoiding a loss, by a person who has confidential information about the securities that, if generally known, would affect their price. Its practice by those connected with a company is illegal
- insider trading — the illegal buying and selling of securities by persons acting on privileged information.
- interior design — the design and coordination of the decorative elements of the interior of a house, apartment, office, or other structural space, including color schemes, fittings, furnishings, and sometimes architectural features.
- inunderstanding — (obsolete) Devoid of understanding.
- island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
- keeling islands — Cocos Islands
- kindergarteners — a child who attends a kindergarten.
- king's evidence — evidence for the crown given by an accused person against his or her alleged accomplices.
- kingdom of ends — (in Kantian ethics) a metaphorical realm to which belong those persons acting and being acted upon in accordance with moral law.
- kissing disease — infectious mononucleosis.
- 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
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- longsightedness — Farsight; farsightedness; far sight; long sight.
- 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
- marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
- 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.
- misapprehending — Present participle of misapprehend.
- 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
- 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.
- one-night stand — a single performance in one locale, as by a touring theatrical company, before moving on to the next engagement.
- 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
- 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