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

  • talking machine — Older Use. a phonograph.
  • talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
  • tamarisk gerbil — gerbil (def 2).
  • tangible assets — valuable items: cash, property, etc.
  • teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
  • technologically — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • telegraphically — of or relating to the telegraph.
  • ten-pin bowling — game of skittles
  • terra sigillata — Arretine ware.
  • the anglo-irish — the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent
  • the everlasting — God
  • the legal limit — the maximum amount of something that is allowed by law, especially the amount of alcohol allowed before driving
  • the living dead — dead people that have been brought back to life by a supernatural force
  • the magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
  • the saint leger — an annual horse race run at Doncaster since 1776: one of the classics of the flat-racing season
  • thermal imaging — Thermal imaging is the use of special equipment that can detect the heat produced by people or things and use it to produce images of them.
  • thimble-rigging — a sleight-of-hand swindling game in which the operator palms a pellet or pea while appearing to cover it with one of three thimblelike cups, and then, moving the cups about, offers to bet that no one can tell under which cup the pellet or pea lies.
  • thing-in-itself — reality as it is apart from experience; what remains to be postulated after space, time, and all the categories of the understanding are assigned to consciousness. Compare noumenon (def 3).
  • tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
  • tintagel castle — a ruined castle on a promontory in SW England on the W coast of Cornwall, which is the legendary birthplace of King Arthur
  • toilet training — child: process of learning to use toilet
  • training wheels — a pair of small wheels attached one on each side of the rear wheel of a bicycle for stability while one is learning to ride.
  • transgressional — of or relating to transgression
  • traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
  • travelling wave — a wave carrying energy away from its source
  • treacle pudding — a sponge cake with syrup on top
  • trickle charger — a small mains-operated battery charger, esp one that delivers less than 5 amperes and is used by car owners
  • triple integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of three variables and which requires three applications of the integration process to evaluate.
  • troubleshooting — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
  • tumbling barrel — a rotating drum for subjecting materials or small manufactured objects, loosely placed inside, to a tumbling action, as to mix materials or to polish objects by friction with one another or with an abrasive.
  • tunbridge wells — a city in SW Kent, in SE England: mineral springs; resort.
  • turkish delight — a candy made of fruit juice and gelatin, cubed and dusted with sugar.
  • ultra-religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
  • ultracentrifuge — a high-speed centrifuge for subjecting sols or solutions to forces many times that of gravity and producing concentration differences depending on the weight of the micelle or molecule.
  • uncategorizable — not able to be categorized or placed into a category
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • underfulfilling — falling short of satisfactory
  • underprivileged — denied the enjoyment of the normal privileges or rights of a society because of low economic and social status.
  • understandingly — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • ungentlemanlike — unlike a gentleman
  • uninterestingly — in a way that is not interesting
  • union catalogue — a catalogue listing every publication held at cooperating libraries
  • universal stage — a small theodolite mounted on the stage of a polarizing microscope and used in the petrographic analysis of rocks.
  • unmanageability — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
  • unprogressively — in an unprogressive manner
  • unquestioningly — in manner that accepts something without expressing doubt or uncertainty
  • unrelinquishing — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
  • upper arlington — a city in central Ohio, near Columbus.
  • upsetting lever — the horizontal distance between the center of gravity, acting downward, and the center of buoyancy, acting upward, when they are so placed as to form a couple (upsetting couple) tending to capsize the boat.
  • urban guerrilla — a member of any underground political group engaged in terrorism or violence in urban areas, especially during the 1970s.
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