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15-letter words containing g, e, l, d, i, n

  • listed building — (in Britain) a building officially recognized as having special historical or architectural interest and therefore protected from demolition or alteration
  • long-tailed tit — a small European songbird, Aegithalos caudatus, with a black, white, and pink plumage and a very long tail: family Paridae (tits)
  • longshore drift — beach drift.
  • longsightedness — Farsight; farsightedness; far sight; long sight.
  • loving-kindness — tender kindness motivated by or expressing affection.
  • lynden pindling — Lynden Oscar ("Father of the Bahamas") 1930–2000, Bahamian political leader: first prime minister 1967–92.
  • magnetic needle — a slender magnetized steel rod that, when adjusted to swing in a horizontal plane, as in a compass, indicates the direction of the earth's magnetic fields or the approximate position of north and south.
  • mailing address — postal or delivery address
  • meibomian gland — any of the small sebaceous glands in the eyelid, beneath the conjunctiva
  • mineral kingdom — minerals collectively.
  • moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
  • night blindness — a condition of the eyes in which vision is normal in daylight but abnormally poor at night or in a dim light; nyctalopia.
  • nimble-fingered — able to move the fingers agilely, quickly, and neatly
  • nitriding steel — any steel suitable for casehardening by nitriding.
  • nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
  • office building — building containing offices
  • old age pension — An old age pension is a regular amount of money that people receive from the government when they have retired from work.
  • old high german — High German before 1100. Abbreviation: OHG.
  • oligodendrocyte — A glial cell similar to an astrocyte but with fewer protuberances, concerned with the production of myelin in the central nervous system.
  • oligodendroglia — Oligodendrocytes collectively.
  • oligonucleotide — a chain of a few nucleotides.
  • orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
  • organized labor — all workers who are organized in labor unions.
  • outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
  • oxygen cylinder — a metal cylinder containing oxygen under pressure
  • paedophile ring — a group of people who take part in illegal sexual activity involving children
  • 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.
  • public spending — expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
  • 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.
  • radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • scolding bridle — branks.
  • second blessing — an experience of sanctification coming after conversion.
  • self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • self-indulgence — indulging one's own desires, passions, whims, etc., especially without restraint.
  • self-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
  • shire highlands — an upland area of S Malawi. Average height: 900 m (3000 ft)
  • sidesplittingly — in a side-splitting manner
  • sign the pledge — to make a vow to abstain from alcoholic drink
  • 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
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