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15-letter words containing d, o, t, l, e

  • fraternal order — men's organization
  • french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
  • gallant soldier — a South American plant, Galinsoga parviflora, widely distributed as a weed, having small daisy-like flowers surrounded by silvery scales: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • gardening tools — tools used for gardening, such as a trowel, spade, rake, etc
  • gatefold sleeve — a record sleeve that opens out like a book
  • gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
  • get a handle on — that which may be held, seized, grasped, or taken advantage of in effecting a purpose: The clue was a handle for solving the mystery.
  • get hold of sth — If you get hold of an object or information, you obtain it, usually after some difficulty.
  • go into details — If someone does not go into details about a subject, or does not go into the detail, they mention it without explaining it fully or properly.
  • go to the devil — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
  • gödel's theorem — either of two theorems published by the mathematician Kurt Gödel in 1931 that prove all mathematical systems are incomplete in that their truth or consistency can only be proved using a system of a higher order
  • gold prospector — a person who searches for the natural occurrence of gold
  • golden nematode — a yellowish nematode, Heterodera rostochiensis, that is parasitic on the roots of potatoes, tomatoes, and other solanaceous plants.
  • golden pheasant — an Asiatic pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus, having brilliant scarlet, orange, gold, green, and black plumage.
  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • golden triangle — (sometimes lowercase) an area of Southeast Asia encompassing parts of Burma, Laos, and Thailand, significant as a major source of opium and heroin.
  • goldenrain tree — a small, deciduous Asian tree (Koelreuteria paniculata) of the soapberry family having small yellow flowers and papery fruit pods
  • grade inflation — the awarding of higher grades than students deserve either to maintain a school's academic reputation or as a result of diminished teacher expectations.
  • graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
  • grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • half-understood — partially understood
  • heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
  • hexahydrothymol — menthol.
  • holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
  • holiday clothes — the clothes worn and bought for travelling on holiday, such as swimwear, skiwear, or clothes for hot or cold weather, etc
  • holiday cottage — a cottage used for accommodation for a family, couple, etc, on holiday
  • horse latitudes — the latitudes near 30°N or 30°S at sea, characterized by baffling winds, calms, and high barometric pressure
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
  • hydroxylapatite — Alternative spelling of hydroxyapatite.
  • ichthyodorulite — a spiny plate located on the tail and back of some fish or similar vertebrates
  • ichthyodorylite — a fossilised fish-spine
  • idiot's delight — any variety of the card game solitaire.
  • ill-conditioned — in a surly or bad mood, state, etc.
  • ill-intentioned — having malicious intentions: an ill-intentioned criticism that was meant more to hurt than to help.
  • implied consent — a manifestation of consent to something through conduct, including inaction or silence.
  • imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
  • in line of duty — in the performance of authorized or prescribed military duty
  • in pari delicto — in equal fault; equally culpable or blameworthy.
  • in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
  • in the old days — a long time ago
  • inconsiderately — In an inconsiderate manner.
  • indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
  • indomitableness — Quality of being indomitable.
  • inflation rider — An inflation rider is a rider that can be added to a long-term care insurance plan that adjusts the benefits over time to allow for inflation.
  • insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
  • intake manifold — a collection of tubes through which the fuel-air mixture flows from the carburetor or fuel injector to the intake valves of the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine.
  • integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
  • intercorrelated — to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.
  • interdivisional — existing or occurring between divisions, esp the divisions of an organization
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