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15-letter words containing g, e, n, o, u

  • housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
  • housing project — a publicly built and operated housing development, usually intended for low- or moderate-income tenants, senior citizens, etc.
  • hughes syndrome — a condition of the autoimmune system caused by antibodies reacting against phospholipids, leading to thrombosis
  • human geography — the study of the interaction between human beings and their environment in particular places and across spatial areas.
  • human megaphone — the technique of using a crowd of people to repeat a speaker's words in unison
  • hump one's swag — (of a tramp) to carry one's belongings from place to place on one's back
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
  • ignition source — An ignition source is a process or event which can cause a fire or explosion.
  • ignominiousness — The state or quality of being ignominious.
  • image-conscious — concerned about the way one comes across to other people and the impression one creates
  • in high dudgeon — If you say that someone is in high dudgeon, you are emphasizing that they are very angry or unhappy about something.
  • in the doghouse — a small shelter for a dog.
  • in the long run — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
  • inhomogeneously — lack of homogeneity.
  • interior-sprung — (esp of a mattress) containing springs
  • into the ground — beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
  • irreligiousness — The state or quality of being irreligious; ungodliness.
  • journal bearing — a plain cylindrical bearing to support a shaft or axle
  • langston hughes — Charles Evans, 1862–1948, U.S. jurist and statesman: chief justice of the U.S. 1930–41.
  • language school — A language school is a private school where a foreign language is taught.
  • langue de boeuf — ox-tongue partisan.
  • leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • leukaemogenesis — the development of leukaemia
  • licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
  • lignocellulosic — (biochemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from lignocellulose; used especially to describe the products of biomass.
  • liquid nitrogen — nitrogen in a liquid state
  • lobster newburg — (sometimes lowercase) lobster cooked in a thick seasoned cream sauce made with sherry or brandy.
  • long-sufferance — long-suffering.
  • luminous energy — light1 (def 2a).
  • magnanimousness — The quality of being magnanimous.
  • magnesium oxide — magnesia.
  • magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
  • measuring spoon — a spoon for measuring amounts, as in cooking, usually part of a set of spoons of different sizes.
  • methylene group — the bivalent organic group >CH 2 , derived from methane.
  • microcentrifuge — A centrifuge used in laboratories to separate materials from small samples (especially of biological material).
  • microtunnelling — a technique used to excavate tunnels mechanically for the laying of pipes
  • modern language — one of the literary languages currently in use in Europe, as French, Spanish, or German, treated as a departmental course of study in a school, college, or university.
  • monumentalizing — Present participle of monumentalize.
  • moreton bay bug — a flattish edible shellfish, Thenus orientalis, of Northern Australian waters
  • mother language — a language from which another language is descended; parent language.
  • mouse droppings — 1.   (graphics, operating system, jargon)   Pixels (usually single) that are not properly restored when the mouse pointer moves away from a particular location on the screen, producing the appearance that the mouse pointer has left droppings behind. The major causes for this problem are MS-DOS programs that write to the screen memory corresponding to the mouse pointer's current location without hiding the mouse pointer first, and mouse drivers that do not quite support the graphics mode in use. 2.   (web, jargon)   The client address recorded in a web server's log whenever a client connects to a site. Users may be unaware that their activity is being logged in this way but the potential for misuse of the information is limited.
  • mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
  • mucosanguineous — containing or made up of blood and mucus
  • multiple voting — the casting of ballots in more than one constituency in one election, as in England before the election reform of 1918.
  • multiprocessing — the simultaneous execution of two or more programs or instruction sequences by separate CPUs under integrated control.
  • national league — the older of the two major professional U.S. baseball leagues, established in 1876. Abbreviation: N.L.
  • negro spiritual — a type of religious song originating among Black slaves in the American South
  • neighbourliness — Standard spelling of neighborliness.
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