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

  • paphian goddess — Aphrodite, worshiped in Cyprus as the goddess of sexual love.
  • pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
  • 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.
  • pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
  • public spending — expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
  • pyramid selling — Pyramid selling is a method of selling in which one person buys a supply of a particular product direct from the manufacturer and then sells it to a number of other people at an increased price. These people sell it on to others in a similar way, but eventually the final buyers are only able to sell the product for less than they paid for it.
  • quadragenarians — Plural form of quadragenarian.
  • reading glasses — spectacles
  • registered bond — a bond recorded in the name of the owner.
  • registered name — the official or trademark name of something such as a product or company
  • rendering works — (used with a singular verb) a factory or plant that renders and processes livestock carcasses into tallow, hides, fertilizer, etc.
  • reviewing stand — A reviewing stand is a special raised platform from which military and political leaders watch military parades.
  • riding breeches — calf-length trousers of whipcord or other durable fabric, flaring at the sides of the thighs and fitting snugly at and below the knees, worn with riding boots for horseback riding, hunting, etc.
  • rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • santa gertrudis — one of an American breed of beef cattle, developed from Shorthorn and Brahman stock for endurance to torrid temperatures.
  • saw-edged knife — a knife with a serrated edge
  • scanning device — any of various devices used in medical diagnosis to obtain an image of an internal organ or part
  • scenic designer — a person whose job is to create the scenery for television, film and stage
  • schooner-rigged — rigged as a schooner, especially with gaff sails and staysails only.
  • scolding bridle — branks.
  • second blessing — an experience of sanctification coming after conversion.
  • secundogeniture — the state of being the second born child
  • seeding machine — a machine for sowing seeds
  • self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • self-indulgence — indulging one's own desires, passions, whims, etc., especially without restraint.
  • self-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
  • sensitizing dye — a dye adsorbed onto the silver halide grains of an emulsion to make the emulsion more sensitive to certain colors.
  • shire highlands — an upland area of S Malawi. Average height: 900 m (3000 ft)
  • shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof
  • shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • sidesplittingly — in a side-splitting manner
  • sign the pledge — to make a vow to abstain from alcoholic drink
  • silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
  • single standard — a single set of principles or rules applying to everyone, as a single moral code applying to both men and women, especially in sexual behavior. Compare double standard.
  • single-breasted — (of a coat, jacket, etc.) having a front closure directly in the center with only a narrow overlap secured by a single button or row of buttons.
  • single-handedly — in a single-handed manner; single-handed.
  • single-sideband — of or pertaining to a system of radio transmission in which one of the two sidebands produced during modulation is suppressed
  • sit in judgment — To sit in judgment means to decide whether or not someone is guilty of doing something wrong.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • smoking-related — (of a disease, illness, etc) caused by smoking tobacco, etc
  • sneezing powder — a powder used to make people sneeze as a practical joke
  • social spending — the money that is spent on welfare payments
  • 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 deadening — a process or material that reduces the resonance or volume of sound
  • sounding rocket — a rocket equipped with instruments for making meteorological observations in the upper atmosphere.
  • speeding ticket — notice of traffic violation
  • spread sampling — the selection of a corpus for statistical analysis by selecting a number of short passages at random throughout the work and considering their aggregation
  • stage direction — an instruction written into the script of a play, indicating stage actions, movements of performers, or production requirements.
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