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15-letter words containing g, i, s

  • elections judge — someone who oversees an election
  • electrosurgical — Relating to electrosurgery.
  • endocrinologist — A person who is skilled at, or practices endocrinology.
  • english bulldog — bulldog (sense 1)
  • english channel — waterway between England and France
  • english sparrow — a small Eurasian weaverbird, Passer domesticus, now established in North America and Australia. It has a brown streaked plumage with grey underparts
  • english speaker — a person who speaks English as a first, or second mother tongue
  • epidemiologists — Plural form of epidemiologist.
  • epistemological — Of or pertaining to epistemology or theory of knowledge, as a field of study.
  • estuary english — a variety of standard British English in which the pronunciation reflects various features characteristic of London and the Southeast of England
  • ethnolinguistic — Of or pertaining to ethnolinguistics.
  • ethnomusicology — The study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.
  • evangelicalness — the state or quality of being evangelical
  • evening prayers — the daily evening service of Bible readings and prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer
  • everlastingness — The state or quality of being everlasting.
  • ewing's sarcoma — a form of malignant bone tumour most commonly found in children and young people
  • export earnings — the earnings of a company or country that are generated through the export of goods or services
  • extension light — a light on the end of a length of cable
  • extralinguistic — Outside the realm of linguistics.
  • fantasmagorical — Alternative form of phantasmagorical.
  • feast of lights — Hanukkah.
  • feeding grounds — the place where animals gather to find food
  • feelinglessness — Lack of feeling or emotion.
  • fetal diagnosis — prenatal determination of genetic or chemical abnormalities in a fetus, esp by amniocentesis
  • fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
  • fight windmills — to fight imaginary evils or opponents
  • fighting spirit — courage and determination expressed in a willingness to fight or struggle
  • filling station — service station (def 1).
  • finger spelling — a method of communicating with or among deaf people in which different shapes made with the fingers represent different letters of the alphabet
  • finishing touch — a final additional or detail that completes and perfects something
  • first gentleman — (often initial capital letters) the husband of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
  • first messenger — a hormone that triggers a biochemical reaction at a site removed from its release.
  • fishing harbour — a place where fishing boats are tied up
  • fishing village — a village in which fishing is the main industry
  • flashlight fish — any of several fishes, especially Photoblepharon palpebratus, inhabiting deep, dark waters and having light organs that can be closed with a lid.
  • fleming's rules — two rules used as mnemonics for the relationship between the directions of current flow, motion, and magnetic field in electromagnetic induction. The hand is held with the thumb, first, and second fingers at right angles, respectively indicating the directions of motion, field, and electric current. The left hand is used for electric motors and the right hand for dynamos
  • flight of ideas — a rapid flow of thought, manifested by accelerated speech with abrupt changes from topic to topic: a symptom of some mental illnesses, especially manic disorder.
  • flight sergeant — a noncommissioned officer in the Royal Air Force junior in rank to a master aircrew
  • flight shooting — competitive shooting for distance only.
  • floating island — a dessert consisting of boiled custard with portions of meringue, whipped cream, or whipped egg whites and sometimes jelly floating upon it or around it.
  • floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
  • floating supply — the aggregate supply of ready-to-market goods or securities.
  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
  • flying buttress — a segmental arch transmitting an outward and downward thrust to a solid buttress that through its inertia transforms the thrust into a vertical one.
  • flying fortress — a heavy bomber, the B-17, with four radial piston engines, widely used over Europe and the Mediterranean by the U.S. Air Force in World War II.
  • flying squirrel — any of various nocturnal tree squirrels, as Glaucomys volans, of the eastern U.S., having folds of skin connecting the fore and hind legs, permitting long, gliding leaps.
  • focusing screen — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
  • food processing — transforming raw materials into food
  • foreign affairs — politics: international relations
  • foreign mission — mission (def 10).
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