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15-letter words containing e, g, o, i, t

  • right-of-centre — You can describe a person or political party as right-of-centre if they have political views which are closer to capitalism and conservatism than to socialism but which are not very extreme.
  • rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
  • ringtail monkey — a Central and South American monkey, Cebus capucinus, having a prehensile tail and hair on the head resembling a cowl.
  • rite of passage — Anthropology. a ceremony performed to facilitate or mark a person's change of status upon any of several highly important occasions, as at the onset of puberty or upon entry into marriage or into a clan.
  • roaring forties — the stormy oceanic areas between 40° and 50° south latitude
  • robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
  • roger bannister — Sir Roger (Gilbert) born 1929, English track and field athlete: first to run a mile in less than four minutes.
  • rolling kitchen — a mobile kitchen used for feeding troops outdoors.
  • rolling targets — a series of targets which are reviewed periodically so that they always extend for the same period into the future
  • 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.
  • rough breathing — the symbol (ʿ) used in the writing of Greek to indicate aspiration of the initial vowel or of the ρ (rho) over which it is placed.
  • routeing domain — (networking)   (US "routing") A set of routers that exchange routeing information within an administrative domain.
  • roving reporter — a reporter who travels around, rather than staying in a fixed place
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • sarcoptic mange — mange caused by burrowing mites of the genus Sarcoptes.
  • school teaching — School teaching is the work done by teachers in a school.
  • scottish gaelic — the Gaelic of the Hebrides and the Highlands of Scotland, also spoken as a second language in Nova Scotia.
  • secundogeniture — the state of being the second born child
  • segregationists — one who favors, encourages, or practices segregation, especially racial segregation.
  • self-abnegation — self-denial or self-sacrifice.
  • self-committing — to give in trust or charge; consign.
  • self-correcting — automatically adjusting to or correcting mistakes, malfunctions, etc.: a self-correcting mechanism.
  • self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • self-exploiting — to utilize, especially for profit; turn to practical account: to exploit a business opportunity.
  • self-forgetting — self-forgetful.
  • self-generation — production or reproduction of something without the aid of an external agent; spontaneous generation.
  • self-immolating — of, relating to, or tending toward self-immolation.
  • self-monitoring — (especially formerly) a student appointed to assist in the conduct of a class or school, as to help take attendance or keep order.
  • self-regulation — control by oneself or itself, as in an economy, business organization, etc., especially such control as exercised independently of governmental supervision, laws, or the like.
  • self-suggestion — the act of suggesting.
  • self-supporting — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
  • semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
  • serve one right — to act as a servant.
  • shopping basket — a metal or plastic container with one or two handles, used to carry shopping in a shop
  • shopping center — a group of stores within a single architectural plan, supplying most of the basic shopping needs, especially in suburban areas.
  • shopping centre — A shopping centre is a specially built area containing a lot of different shops.
  • shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
  • smelling bottle — a small bottle or vial for holding smelling salts or perfume.
  • smoking-concert — a concert where smoking is allowed.
  • smoking-related — (of a disease, illness, etc) caused by smoking tobacco, etc
  • social heritage — the entire inherited pattern of cultural activity present in a society.
  • social register — a directory or list of people prominent in the fashionable society of a given area
  • soft-boiled egg — boiled egg with runny yolk
  • soul-destroying — Activities or situations that are soul-destroying make you depressed, because they are boring or because there is no hope of improvement.
  • sounding rocket — a rocket equipped with instruments for making meteorological observations in the upper atmosphere.
  • southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
  • southern gothic — a literary genre depicting life in the southern US and featuring grotesque themes and imagery
  • southern lights — aurora australis.
  • speaking of sth — You can say speaking of something that has just been mentioned as a way of introducing a new topic which has some connection with that thing.
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