15-letter words containing g, i, l, n, h
- night-sky light — the faint glow of the night sky, caused by such phenomena as airglow and zodiacal light.
- nonbiographical — not biographical, not relating to biography or events in a person's life
- nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
- north arlington — a city in NE New Jersey.
- north highlands — a town in central California, near Sacramento.
- northern lights — aurora borealis.
- occulting light — a beacon having a light covered briefly at regular intervals.
- old high german — High German before 1100. Abbreviation: OHG.
- oligohydramnios — (medicine) A deficit of amniotic fluid in the amniotic sac, causing distinctive deformations of the foetus.
- organochlorines — Plural form of organochlorine.
- paedophile ring — a group of people who take part in illegal sexual activity involving children
- phenomenologies — the study of phenomena.
- phenomenologist — the study of phenomena.
- phonogramically — in a phonogramic manner
- phrenologically — in a manner relating to phrenology
- physical change — a usually reversible change in the physical properties of a substance, as size or shape: Freezing a liquid is a physical change.
- planning blight — the harmful effects of uncertainty about likely restrictions on the types and extent of future development in a particular area on the quality of life of its inhabitants and the normal growth of its business and community enterprises
- queen's english — king's English.
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- 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
- religion of chi — /ki:/ [Case Western Reserve University] Yet another hackish parody religion (see also Church of the SubGenius, Discordianism). In the mid-70s, the canonical "Introduction to Programming" courses at CWRU were taught in ALGOL, and student exercises were punched on cards and run on a Univac 1108 system using a homebrew operating system named CHI. The religion had no doctrines and but one ritual: whenever the worshipper noted that a digital clock read 11:08, he or she would recite the phrase "It is 11:08; ABS, ALPHABETIC, ARCSIN, ARCCOS, ARCTAN." The last five words were the first five functions in the appropriate chapter of the ALGOL manual; note the special pronunciations /obz/ and /ark'sin/ rather than the more common /ahbz/ and /ark'si:n/. Using an alarm clock to warn of 11:08's arrival was considered harmful.
- reverse english — Also called reverse side. Billiards. a spinning motion imparted to a cue ball in such a manner as to prevent it from moving in a certain direction. Compare running English.
- reversing light — Reversing lights are the white lights on the back of a motor vehicle which shine when the vehicle is in reverse gear.
- rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
- rolling kitchen — a mobile kitchen used for feeding troops outdoors.
- rollmop herring — a herring fillet rolled, usually around onion slices, and pickled in spiced vinegar
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- rubbing alcohol — a poisonous solution of about 70 percent isopropyl or denatured ethyl alcohol, usually containing a perfume oil, used chiefly in massaging.
- running english — the giving of English or spin to the cue ball to enable it to bounce in the direction of a certain angle. Compare reverse English (def 1).
- school teaching — School teaching is the work done by teachers in a school.
- scotch highland — any of a breed of small, hardy, usually dun-colored, shaggy-haired beef cattle with long, widespread horns, able to withstand the cold and sparse pasturage of its native western Scottish uplands.
- sheet lightning — lightning appearing merely as a general illumination over a broad area, usually because the path of the flash is obscured by clouds.
- shillyshallying — hesitation; vacillation
- shipping losses — the total loss of a navy's ships in wartime, esp with reference to those sunk during the Second World War
- shire highlands — an upland area of S Malawi. Average height: 900 m (3000 ft)
- sign the pledge — to make a vow to abstain from alcoholic drink
- single-handedly — in a single-handed manner; single-handed.
- sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
- sound-and-light — combining sound effects or music with unusual lighting displays: to promote a product with a spectacular sound-and-light presentation.
- southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
- southern lights — aurora australis.
- spherical angle — an angle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
- starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
- street lighting — the provision of lighting at night in public places to illuminate the streets
- strobe lighting — a high-intensity flashing beam of light produced by rapid electrical discharges in a tube or by a perforated disc rotating in front of an intense light source: used in discotheques, etc
- sulphur springs — a town in NE Texas.
- talking machine — Older Use. a phonograph.
- teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
- technologically — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
- the anglo-irish — the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent