14-letter words containing e, a, g, l, s
- passenger mile — a unit of measurement, consisting of one mile traveled by a passenger, that airlines, railroads, and other public transportation facilities use in recording volume of traffic.
- pebble glasses — spectacles with round thick lenses with a high degree of magnification
- phraseological — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
- plain speaking — expressing oneself directly
- planning stage — the stage of a project when it is still being planned
- planta genista — a representation of a sprig of broom: used as a badge of the Plantagenets.
- pleasant grove — a town in central Utah.
- plethysmograph — a device for measuring and recording changes in the volume of the body or of a body part or organ.
- polygraph test — a test carried out using a polygraph, esp used by the police to try to find out whether somebody is telling the truth
- popular singer — a professional singer who specializes in popular songs.
- position angle — the direction in which one object lies relative to another on the celestial sphere, measured in degrees from north in an easterly direction
- postcollegiate — denoting something that takes place after college or among those that are no longer at college
- pressing plant — a manufacturing plant where phonograph records are produced by pressing in a mold or by stamping.
- progestational — prepared for pregnancy, as the lining of the uterus prior to menstruation or in the early stages of gestation itself; progravid.
- prostate gland — an organ that surrounds the urethra of males at the base of the bladder, comprising a muscular portion, which controls the release of urine, and a glandular portion, which secretes an alkaline fluid that makes up part of the semen and enhances the motility and fertility of sperm.
- quinquagesimal — of, relating to, or consisting of a set of 50
- rabble-rousing — of, relating to, or characteristic of a rabble-rouser.
- rammelsbergite — a mineral, essentially nickel diarsenide, NiAs 2 .
- rangeley lakes — chain of lakes in W Me. & NE N.H.
- realized gains — Realized gains are gains which have been made from the sale of an asset.
- reassimilating — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
- recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
- reducing glass — a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.
- registrability — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
- roger williams — Ben Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1889–1953, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- roller-skating — the act of moving on roller skates
- royal highness — a title used prior to 1917 and designating a brother, sister, child, grandchild, aunt, or uncle belonging to the male line of the royal family. a title used since 1917 and designating a child or grandchild of the sovereign. any person given this title by the Crown.
- saber rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
- saber-rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
- sabre-rattling — If you describe a threat, especially a threat of military action, as sabre-rattling, you do not believe that the threat will actually be carried out.
- sacred college — the collective body of the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church
- sacrilegiously — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- sacrococcygeal — relating to the sacrum and the coccyx
- sailing length — a measurement of a yacht, comprising its length on the water line as well as certain measurements taken from the overhangs at bow and stern.
- sailing orders — the final orders given to a ship's commander before sailing, concerning matters such as time of departure, destination, etc
- salad dressing — a sauce for a salad, usually with a base of oil and vinegar or of mayonnaise.
- sales campaign — product promotion and publicity
- sales planning — the business activity of estimating future sales of products or services and setting sales targets
- sales register — a business machine that indicates to customers the amounts of individual sales, has a money drawer from which to make change, records and totals receipts, and may automatically calculate the change due.
- salle a manger — a dining room.
- salvage vessel — a ship that is used in salvaging goods or property from a shipwreck
- salvageability — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- samuel gompers — Samuel, 1850–1924, U.S. labor leader, born in England: president of the American Federation of Labor 1886–94, 1896–1924.
- sand lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
- saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
- scaling ladder — a ladder for climbing high walls.
- scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
- schoolteaching — the profession of a schoolteacher.
- scrambled eggs — scrambled eggs are eggs that are mixed together and then cooked in butter.