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15-letter words containing g, e, n, a, l, o

  • glen canyon dam — Adam Clayton, Jr. 1908–72, U.S. clergyman, politician, and civil-rights leader: congressman 1945–67, 1969–71.
  • glycogenic acid — gluconic acid.
  • go into details — If someone does not go into details about a subject, or does not go into the detail, they mention it without explaining it fully or properly.
  • go up in flames — be burned
  • goal difference — the number of goals scored by a team minus the number of goals it has conceded
  • golden eardrops — a Californian plant, Dicentra chrysantha, of the fumitory family, having bluish-green foliage and branched clusters of yellow flowers.
  • golden nematode — a yellowish nematode, Heterodera rostochiensis, that is parasitic on the roots of potatoes, tomatoes, and other solanaceous plants.
  • golden pheasant — an Asiatic pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus, having brilliant scarlet, orange, gold, green, and black plumage.
  • golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • golden triangle — (sometimes lowercase) an area of Southeast Asia encompassing parts of Burma, Laos, and Thailand, significant as a major source of opium and heroin.
  • goldenrain tree — a small, deciduous Asian tree (Koelreuteria paniculata) of the soapberry family having small yellow flowers and papery fruit pods
  • governing class — the social class that holds the power in a country
  • governmentalism — the trend toward expansion of the government's role, range of activities, or power.
  • governmentalist — one who promotes the philosophy of governmentalism
  • governmentality — (sociology) The organized practices (mentalities, rationalities, and techniques) through which subjects are governed and influenced.
  • governmentalize — (US) To bring a private entity under government control; to nationalize.
  • grade inflation — the awarding of higher grades than students deserve either to maintain a school's academic reputation or as a result of diminished teacher expectations.
  • grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • great rebellion — English Civil War.
  • grecian profile — a profile distinguished by the absence of the hollow between the upper ridge of the nose and the forehead, thereby forming a straight line.
  • gulf of fonseca — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in W Central America
  • haemoglobinuria — the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • half wellington — a loose boot extending to just above the ankle and usually worn under the trousers.
  • halting problem — The problem of determining in advance whether a particular program or algorithm will terminate or run forever. The halting problem is the canonical example of a provably unsolvable problem. Obviously any attempt to answer the question by actually executing the algorithm or simulating each step of its execution will only give an answer if the algorithm under consideration does terminate, otherwise the algorithm attempting to answer the question will itself run forever. Some special cases of the halting problem are partially solvable given sufficient resources. For example, if it is possible to record the complete state of the execution of the algorithm at each step and the current state is ever identical to some previous state then the algorithm is in a loop. This might require an arbitrary amount of storage however. Alternatively, if there are at most N possible different states then the algorithm can run for at most N steps without looping. A program analysis called termination analysis attempts to answer this question for limited kinds of input algorithm.
  • hapax legomenon — a word or phrase that appears only once in a manuscript, document, or particular area of literature.
  • haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • high-angle shot — a shot taken from a camera positioned above the action
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
  • holiday feeling — the positive feeling people experience while on holiday and during holiday periods such as the Christmas period
  • horned oak gall — a small, round tumor, formed around wasp eggs laid in the branches of a pin oak tree, that disrupts the flow of nutrients to the tree, with consequent defoliation and death.
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • hyperpolarizing — Present participle of hyperpolarize.
  • hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
  • imperial gallon — a British gallon used in liquid and dry measurement equivalent to 1.2 U.S. gallons, or 4.54 liters.
  • integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
  • intercollegiate — taking place between or participating in activities between different colleges: intercollegiate athletics.
  • interrogatingly — So as to interrogate; with urgent or bullying questioning.
  • interrogational — the act of interrogating; questioning.
  • interrogatively — In an interrogative manner; by means of a question.
  • investigational — Of, or relating to investigating, or to an investigation.
  • island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
  • job enlargement — a widening of the range of tasks performed by an employee in order to provide variety in the activities undertaken
  • journal bearing — a plain cylindrical bearing to support a shaft or axle
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • knowledge-based — characterized by the dominance of information services as an area of growth
  • lactovegetarian — Also called lactarian. a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products.
  • lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)
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