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15-letter words containing g, a, s, t, i

  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • light and shade — If you say that there is light and shade in something such as a performance, you mean you like it because different parts of it are different in tone or mood.
  • light in august — a novel (1932) by William Faulkner.
  • lightheadedness — Alternative spelling of light-headedness.
  • linguistic area — a geographical area in which several languages sharing common features are spoken.
  • living quarters — accommodation
  • living standard — standard of living.
  • logical atomism — a philosophy developed from linguistic analysis asserting that a proposition can be analyzed into simple, independent elements of meaning corresponding to elements making up basic facts about the world and reality.
  • lost generation — the generation of men and women who came of age during or immediately following World War I: viewed, as a result of their war experiences and the social upheaval of the time, as cynical, disillusioned, and without cultural or emotional stability.
  • lung specialist — doctor specializing in lung conditions
  • luster painting — a method of decorating glazed pottery with metallic pigment, originated in Persia, popular from the 9th through the mid-19th centuries.
  • madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
  • magnesioferrite — (mineralogy) A magnesium iron oxide mineral, a member of the magnetite series of spinels, which forms black metallic octahedral crystals.
  • magnesium light — the strongly actinic white light produced when magnesium is burned: used in photography, signaling, pyrotechnics, etc.
  • magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
  • magnetic stripe — magnetic strip.
  • mail user agent — (messaging)   (MUA) The program that allows the user to compose and read electronic mail messages. The MUA provides the interface between the user and the Message Transfer Agent. Outgoing mail is eventually handed over to an MTA for delivery while the incoming messages are picked up from where the MTA left it (although MUA's running on single-user machines may pick up mail using POP). Popular MUAs for Unix include elm, mush, pine, and RMAIL.
  • manual steering — Manual steering is steering in which the driver does all the work, without the help of mechanical power.
  • margaritiferous — yielding or wearing pearls
  • marginalisation — (British) alternative spelling of marginalization.
  • master-planning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
  • messier catalog — a catalog of nonstellar objects compiled by Charles Messier in 1784 and later slightly extended, now known to contain nebulae, galaxies, and star clusters.
  • metalinguistics — the study of the relation between languages and the other cultural systems they refer to.
  • midgard serpent — a serpent, the child of Loki and Angerboda, who lies wrapped around the world, tail in mouth, and is destined to kill and to be killed by Thor at Ragnarok; Jormungand.
  • mis-categorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • miscegenational — of or relating to miscegenation
  • miscoordinating — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
  • misregistration — the act of registering.
  • mitigate a risk — If something or someone mitigates a risk, they make the effects of a loss or risk less unpleasant, harmful, or serious.
  • morale-boosting — A morale-boosting action or event makes people feel more confident and cheerful.
  • moving stairway — escalator (def 1).
  • multilingualism — using or able to speak several or many languages with some facility.
  • napier-hastings — a seaport on E North Island, in New Zealand.
  • narcotics agent — an undercover agent who provides information to the police about illegal drugs, illegal drug trafficking, and users of illegal drugs
  • nasopharyngitis — (medicine) An inflammation of the nasal passages, and of the upper pharynx.
  • natural english — Programming in normal, spoken English. [Sammet 1969, p.768].
  • navigation acts — any of several acts of Parliament between 1651 and 1847 designed primarily to expand British trade and limit trade by British colonies with countries that were rivals of Great Britain.
  • navigation laws — laws relating to navigation
  • nearsightedness — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
  • negro spiritual — a type of religious song originating among Black slaves in the American South
  • neighbor states — the states or countries next to another state or country
  • noise generator — a device used in synthesizers to produce high-frequency sound effects
  • non-egotistical — pertaining to or characterized by egotism.
  • non-legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
  • nonantagonistic — acting in opposition; opposing, especially mutually.
  • nonself-antigen — any of the antigens present in an individual that originate outside the body (contrasted with self-antigen).
  • nonwithstanding — Misspelling of notwithstanding.
  • north highlands — a town in central California, near Sacramento.
  • not give a shit — to not care at all
  • nothingarianism — Beliefs and practices of a nothingarian.
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