15-letter words containing g, a, d, e
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- photodegradable — (of a substance) capable of being broken down by light.
- 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
- pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
- pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
- purchase ledger — a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due
- pyramid selling — Pyramid selling is a method of selling in which one person buys a supply of a particular product direct from the manufacturer and then sells it to a number of other people at an increased price. These people sell it on to others in a similar way, but eventually the final buyers are only able to sell the product for less than they paid for it.
- quadragenarians — Plural form of quadragenarian.
- quarter binding — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
- radiant heating — the means of heating objects or persons by radiation in which the intervening air is not heated.
- radiator grille — a grille in an automobile or the like for air cooling of the liquid in the cooling system.
- radio programme — something that is broadcast on radio
- radiogoniometer — a device used to detect the direction of radio waves, consisting of a coil that is free to rotate within two fixed coils at right angles to each other
- radiogoniometry — the science of detecting the direction of radio waves
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.