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15-letter words containing e, g, d

  • oligodendroglia — Oligodendrocytes collectively.
  • oligonucleotide — a chain of a few nucleotides.
  • oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
  • on a knife-edge — To be on a knife-edge means to be in a situation in which nobody knows what is going to happen next, or in which one thing is just as likely to happen as another.
  • on a razor edge — in an extremely precarious state
  • one-night stand — a single performance in one locale, as by a touring theatrical company, before moving on to the next engagement.
  • onward progress — progress that advances or improves (a situation, etc)
  • orange chromide — an Asian cichlid fish, Etropus maculatus, with a brownish-orange spotted body
  • orange hawkweed — a European composite plant, Hieracium aurantiacum, having orange, dandelionlike flowers, growing as a weed, especially in eastern North America.
  • orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
  • orangeman's day — the 12th of July, celebrated by Protestants in Northern Ireland to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne (1690)
  • orangemen's day — July 12, an annual celebration in Northern Ireland and certain cities having a large Irish section, especially Liverpool, to mark both the victory of William III over James II at the Battle of the Boyne, July 1, 1690, and the Battle of Augbrim, July 12, 1690.
  • order-embedding — A function f : D -> C is order-embedding iff for all x, y in D, f(x) <= f(y) <=> x <= y. I.e. arguments and results compare similarly. A function which is order-embedding is monotonic and one-to-one and an injection. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \sqsubseteq).
  • ordinary degree — a university degree without honours
  • organic disease — a disease in which there is a structural alteration (opposed to functional disease).
  • organized chaos — a complex situation or process that appears chaotic while having enough order to achieve progress or goals
  • organized crime — illegal activities co-ordinated by groups
  • organized labor — all workers who are organized in labor unions.
  • ortega saavedra — (José) Daniel [haw-se dah-nyel] /hɔˈsɛ dɑˈnyɛl/ (Show IPA), born 1945, Nicaraguan political leader: president 1985–90.
  • outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
  • outstandingness — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
  • over-engineered — unnecessarily complicated
  • over-privileged — having too many advantages or opportunities compared to others.
  • overdramatizing — Present participle of overdramatize.
  • overexaggerated — Simple past tense and past participle of overexaggerate.
  • oxidizing agent — a substance that oxidizes another substance, being itself reduced in the process. Common oxidizing agents are oxygen, hydrogen peroxide, and ferric salts
  • oxygen cylinder — a metal cylinder containing oxygen under pressure
  • package holiday — a holiday arranged by a travel company in which your travel and accommodation are booked for you
  • packing density — a measure of the amount of data that can be held by unit length of a storage medium, such as magnetic tape
  • paedophile ring — a group of people who take part in illegal sexual activity involving children
  • paget's disease — Pathology. a chronic disease characterized by episodic accelerated bone resorption and growth of abnormal replacement bone, causing bone pain, deformation, fractures, and osteosarcoma; osteitis deformans.
  • painted bunting — a brilliantly colored bunting, Passerina ciris, of the southern U.S.
  • paphian goddess — Aphrodite, worshiped in Cyprus as the goddess of sexual love.
  • pectoral girdle — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the forelimbs.
  • pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
  • 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.
  • perfect binding — a technique for binding books by a machine that cuts off the backs of the sections and glues the leaves to a cloth or paper backing.
  • philip the good — 1396–1467, duke of Burgundy 1419–67.
  • photodegradable — (of a substance) capable of being broken down by light.
  • pointing device — an input device, as a mouse, stylus, or joystick, used to control movement of a cursor or pointer.
  • posthole digger — a tool or device for digging a posthole.
  • pot-bellied pig — A pot-bellied pig is a small, dark-colored pig, originally from Vietnam, that is sometimes kept as a pet.
  • powder magazine — a compartment for the storage of ammunition and explosives.
  • prairie-dogging — (in an open-plan office) the practice of looking over the top of one's partition in order to discover the source of or reason for a commotion
  • 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.
  • predicate logic — (logic)   (Or "predicate calculus") An extension of propositional logic with separate symbols for predicates, subjects, and quantifiers. For example, where propositional logic might assign a single symbol P to the proposition "All men are mortal", predicate logic can define the predicate M(x) which asserts that the subject, x, is mortal and bind x with the universal quantifier ("For all"): All x . M(x) Higher-order predicate logic allows predicates to be the subjects of other predicates.
  • prekindergarten — a school or class for young children between the ages of four and six years.
  • prestidigitator — sleight of hand; legerdemain.
  • product manager — sb who oversees product development
  • pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
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