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

  • longsightedness — Farsight; farsightedness; far sight; long sight.
  • lord-in-waiting — a nobleman in attendance on a British monarch or the Prince of Wales.
  • loving-kindness — tender kindness motivated by or expressing affection.
  • lowland gorilla — the eastern lowland gorilla or western lowland gorilla. See under gorilla.
  • lynden pindling — Lynden Oscar ("Father of the Bahamas") 1930–2000, Bahamian political leader: first prime minister 1967–92.
  • magnetic needle — a slender magnetized steel rod that, when adjusted to swing in a horizontal plane, as in a compass, indicates the direction of the earth's magnetic fields or the approximate position of north and south.
  • mailing address — postal or delivery address
  • malpighian body — Also called kidney corpuscle, Malpighian body. the structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule.
  • marigold window — wheel window.
  • meibomian gland — any of the small sebaceous glands in the eyelid, beneath the conjunctiva
  • mineral kingdom — minerals collectively.
  • mongolian idiot — a person affected with Down syndrome
  • moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
  • nation-building — Journalists sometimes use nation-building to refer to government policies that are designed to create a strong sense of national identity.
  • 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.
  • nimble-fingered — able to move the fingers agilely, quickly, and neatly
  • nitriding steel — any steel suitable for casehardening by nitriding.
  • nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
  • north highlands — a town in central California, near Sacramento.
  • office building — building containing offices
  • 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.
  • old high german — High German before 1100. Abbreviation: OHG.
  • oligodendrocyte — A glial cell similar to an astrocyte but with fewer protuberances, concerned with the production of myelin in the central nervous system.
  • oligodendroglia — Oligodendrocytes collectively.
  • oligohydramnios — (medicine) A deficit of amniotic fluid in the amniotic sac, causing distinctive deformations of the foetus.
  • oligonucleotide — a chain of a few nucleotides.
  • orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
  • organized labor — all workers who are organized in labor unions.
  • outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
  • outward-looking — looking beyond oneself; open-minded and reaching out to other people, organizations, etc
  • oxygen cylinder — a metal cylinder containing oxygen under pressure
  • paedophile ring — a group of people who take part in illegal sexual activity involving children
  • pelargonic acid — a colorless, oily, water-immiscible liquid, C 9 H 1 8 O 2 , occurring as an ester in a volatile oil in species of pelargonium: used chiefly in organic synthesis and in the manufacture of lacquers and plastics.
  • pituitary gland — a small, somewhat cherry-shaped double structure attached by a stalk to the base of the brain and constituting the master endocrine gland affecting all hormonal functions in the body, consisting of an anterior region ((anterior pituitary) or (adenohypophysis)) that develops embryonically from the roof of the mouth and that secretes growth hormone, LH, FSH, ACTH, TSH, and MSH, a posterior region ((posterior pituitary) or (neurohypophysis)) that develops from the back of the forebrain and that secretes the hormones vasopressin and oxytocin, and an intermediate part (pars intermedia) derived from the anterior region but joined to the posterior region, that secretes the hormone MSH in lower vertebrates.
  • public building — a building that belongs to a town or state, and is used by the public
  • 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.
  • radioimmunology — the study of biological substances or processes with the aid of antigens or antibodies labeled with a radioactive isotope.
  • radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
  • 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.
  • reading glasses — spectacles
  • reading the law — that part of the morning service on Sabbaths, festivals, and Mondays and Thursdays during which a passage is read from the Torah scrolls
  • recording angel — an angel who supposedly keeps a record of every person's good and bad acts
  • regimental band — a band made up of a military formation varying in size from a battalion to a number of battalions
  • rendering plant — a factory where waste products and livestock carcasses are converted into industrial fats and oils (such as tallow, used to make soap) and other products (such as fertilizer)
  • rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • rotary drilling — Rotary drilling is the use of a continuous circular motion of the drill bit to make a hole.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • rudyard kipling — (Joseph) Rudyard [ruhd-yerd] /ˈrʌd yərd/ (Show IPA), 1865–1936, English author: Nobel Prize 1907.
  • salivary glands — any of several glands, as the submaxillary glands, that secrete saliva.
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