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15-letter words containing d, i, s, g, u

  • listed building — (in Britain) a building officially recognized as having special historical or architectural interest and therefore protected from demolition or alteration
  • magnesium oxide — magnesia.
  • marburg disease — a viral disease producing a severe and often fatal illness with fever, rash, diarrhea, vomiting, and gastrointestinal bleeding, transmitted to humans through contact with infected green monkeys.
  • mogi das cruzes — a city in SE Brazil, E of São Paulo.
  • 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.
  • nuisance ground — a garbage dump.
  • nursing studies — the study of nursing
  • outstandingness — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
  • pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
  • pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
  • public spending — expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
  • quadragenarians — Plural form of quadragenarian.
  • religious order — monks: monastery
  • robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
  • rogation sunday — the fifth Sunday after Easter; it sees the start of the supplications that are continued during the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
  • rouget de lisle — Claude Joseph [klohd zhaw-zef] /kloʊd ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1760–1836, French army officer and composer of songs: wrote and composed Marseillaise.
  • santa gertrudis — one of an American breed of beef cattle, developed from Shorthorn and Brahman stock for endurance to torrid temperatures.
  • secundogeniture — the state of being the second born child
  • securicor guard — a guard who works for Securicor
  • self-indulgence — indulging one's own desires, passions, whims, etc., especially without restraint.
  • shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • 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
  • sit in judgment — To sit in judgment means to decide whether or not someone is guilty of doing something wrong.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • spawning ground — a place where fish deposit their eggs for fertilization
  • stamping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
  • steamed pudding — a traditional pudding containing fat, sugar, eggs, flour, and other ingredients, which is steamed
  • stomping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
  • subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
  • suicide bombing — a terrorist bomb attack in which the perpetrator knows that he or she will be killed in the explosion
  • suppressor grid — an electrode placed between the screen grid and anode of a valve. Its negative potential, relative to both screen and anode, prevents secondary electrons from the anode reaching the screen
  • surgical needle — a needle for suturing.
  • 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
  • the undersigned — the person or persons who have signed at the foot of a document, statement, etc
  • tunbridge wells — a city in SW Kent, in SE England: mineral springs; resort.
  • turkish delight — a candy made of fruit juice and gelatin, cubed and dusted with sugar.
  • uncondescending — showing or implying a usually patronizing descent from dignity or superiority: They resented the older neighbors' condescending cordiality.
  • uncorresponding — identical in all essentials or respects: corresponding fingerprints.
  • understandingly — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • undeservingness — qualified for or having a claim to reward, assistance, etc., because of one's actions, qualities, or situation: the deserving poor; a deserving applicant.
  • undisappointing — not disappointing
  • undistinguished — having no distinguishing marks or features.
  • unmitigatedness — the state of being unmitigated
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