15-letter words containing g, a, d, e
- radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
- reading glasses — spectacles
- reading the law — that part of the morning service on Sabbaths, festivals, and Mondays and Thursdays during which a passage is read from the Torah scrolls
- record-breaking — top, most successful
- recording angel — an angel who supposedly keeps a record of every person's good and bad acts
- regimental band — a band made up of a military formation varying in size from a battalion to a number of battalions
- registered mail — prepaid first-class mail that has been recorded at a post office prior to delivery for safeguarding against loss, theft, or damage during transmission.
- registered name — the official or trademark name of something such as a product or company
- rendering plant — a factory where waste products and livestock carcasses are converted into industrial fats and oils (such as tallow, used to make soap) and other products (such as fertilizer)
- reviewing stand — A reviewing stand is a special raised platform from which military and political leaders watch military parades.
- richard gabriel — (person) (Dick, RPG) Dr. Richard P. Gabriel. A noted SAIL LISP hacker and volleyball fanatic. Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Richard Gabriel is a leader in the Lisp and OOP community, with years of contributions to standardisation. He founded the successful company, Lucid Technologies, Inc.. In 1996 he was Distinguished Computer Scientist at ParcPlace-Digitalk, Inc. (later renamed ObjectShare, Inc.). See also gabriel, Qlambda, QLISP, saga.
- ridgefield park — a town in NE New Jersey.
- rite de passage — rite of passage.
- robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
- rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- rotary debugger — (Commodore) Essential equipment for those late-night or early-morning debugging sessions. Mainly used as sustenance for the hacker. Comes in many decorator colours, such as Sausage, Pepperoni, and Garbage.
- rough and ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
- rough-and-ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
- routeing domain — (networking) (US "routing") A set of routers that exchange routeing information within an administrative domain.
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- santa gertrudis — one of an American breed of beef cattle, developed from Shorthorn and Brahman stock for endurance to torrid temperatures.
- saw-edged knife — a knife with a serrated edge
- scanning device — any of various devices used in medical diagnosis to obtain an image of an internal organ or part
- scatter diagram — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
- scrounge around — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- sebaceous gland — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
- second language — a language learned by a person after his or her native language, especially as a resident of an area where it is in general use.
- second mortgage — a mortgage the lien of which is next in priority to a first mortgage.
- secondary group — a group of people with whom one's contacts are detached and impersonal.
- securicor guard — a guard who works for Securicor
- seeding machine — a machine for sowing seeds
- self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
- self-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
- sewage disposal — waste processing
- shire highlands — an upland area of S Malawi. Average height: 900 m (3000 ft)
- shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof
- shoulder charge — an instance of a player charging into another so that there is contact between their shoulders (permissible in some circumstances)
- silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
- single standard — a single set of principles or rules applying to everyone, as a single moral code applying to both men and women, especially in sexual behavior. Compare double standard.
- single-breasted — (of a coat, jacket, etc.) having a front closure directly in the center with only a narrow overlap secured by a single button or row of buttons.
- single-handedly — in a single-handed manner; single-handed.
- single-sideband — of or pertaining to a system of radio transmission in which one of the two sidebands produced during modulation is suppressed
- 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.
- smoking-related — (of a disease, illness, etc) caused by smoking tobacco, etc
- snaggle toothed — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
- snaggle-toothed — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
- social spending — the money that is spent on welfare payments
- sound deadening — a process or material that reduces the resonance or volume of sound
- spraddle-legged — moving with or having the legs wide apart: a spraddle-legged walk.
- spread sampling — the selection of a corpus for statistical analysis by selecting a number of short passages at random throughout the work and considering their aggregation