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15-letter words containing e, u, l, o, g

  • keyhole surgery — operation done by laparoscopy
  • labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
  • langston hughes — Charles Evans, 1862–1948, U.S. jurist and statesman: chief justice of the U.S. 1930–41.
  • language school — A language school is a private school where a foreign language is taught.
  • langue de boeuf — ox-tongue partisan.
  • largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
  • leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
  • leaf-footed bug — any of numerous plant-sucking or predaceous bugs of the family Coreidae, typically having leaflike legs: several species are pests of food crops.
  • league football — rugby league football
  • legal successor — a person or thing that legally follows, esp a person who succeeds another in an office
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • let yourself go — If you let yourself go, you relax and behave much more freely than usual.
  • leukaemogenesis — the development of leukaemia
  • licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
  • lighthouse tube — a vacuum tube with the electrodes arranged in parallel layers closely spaced, giving a relatively high-power output at high frequencies.
  • lignocellulosic — (biochemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from lignocellulose; used especially to describe the products of biomass.
  • liquid nitrogen — nitrogen in a liquid state
  • lobster newburg — (sometimes lowercase) lobster cooked in a thick seasoned cream sauce made with sherry or brandy.
  • long-sufferance — long-suffering.
  • lucrezia borgia — Cesare [che-zah-re] /ˈtʃɛ zɑ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1476?–1507, Italian cardinal, military leader, and politician.
  • luminous energy — light1 (def 2a).
  • marlborough leg — a tapered leg having a square section.
  • massage parlour — A massage parlour is a place where people go and pay for a massage. Some places that are called massage parlours are in fact places where people pay to have sex.
  • methylene group — the bivalent organic group >CH 2 , derived from methane.
  • microtunnelling — a technique used to excavate tunnels mechanically for the laying of pipes
  • miles gloriosus — a braggart soldier, esp as a stock figure in comedy
  • modern language — one of the literary languages currently in use in Europe, as French, Spanish, or German, treated as a departmental course of study in a school, college, or university.
  • monumentalizing — Present participle of monumentalize.
  • mother language — a language from which another language is descended; parent language.
  • mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
  • multiple voting — the casting of ballots in more than one constituency in one election, as in England before the election reform of 1918.
  • multiprocessing — the simultaneous execution of two or more programs or instruction sequences by separate CPUs under integrated control.
  • national league — the older of the two major professional U.S. baseball leagues, established in 1876. Abbreviation: N.L.
  • negro spiritual — a type of religious song originating among Black slaves in the American South
  • neighbourliness — Standard spelling of neighborliness.
  • neurobiological — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
  • neuroembryology — the branch of embryology dealing with the origin and development of the nervous system.
  • neuroimmunology — a branch of immunology concerned with the interactions between immunological and nervous system functions, especially as they apply to various autoimmune diseases.
  • neurolinguistic — pertaining to neurolinguistics
  • neuropathologic — Of or pertaining to neuropathology.
  • neurophysiology — the branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.
  • neuropsychology — The study of the relationship between behavior, emotion, and cognition on the one hand, and brain function on the other.
  • neurotoxicology — the science that deals with the effects of poisons on the nervous system.
  • nonjudgmentally — not judged or judging on the basis of one's personal standards or opinions: They tried to adopt a nonjudgmental attitude that didn't reflect their own biases. My guidance counselor in high school was sympathetic and nonjudgmental.
  • object language — the language to which a metalanguage refers.
  • oblique sailing — the navigation of a vessel on a point of the compass other than one of the cardinal points.
  • obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
  • office building — building containing offices
  • oligonucleotide — a chain of a few nucleotides.
  • organomercurial — an organic compound containing mercury
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