15-letter words containing g, l, a, s, e, n
- palaeomagnetist — a student of or expert in palaeomagnetism
- personal growth — development as an individual
- physical change — a usually reversible change in the physical properties of a substance, as size or shape: Freezing a liquid is a physical change.
- pilsner glass's — a pale, light lager beer.
- plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
- plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
- plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
- pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
- plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
- pragmaticalness — the quality of being pragmatical or meddlesome
- primary sealing — Primary sealing is devices used for sealing tanks, to reduce emissions, often made of foam.
- pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
- public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
- pyramid selling — Pyramid selling is a method of selling in which one person buys a supply of a particular product direct from the manufacturer and then sells it to a number of other people at an increased price. These people sell it on to others in a similar way, but eventually the final buyers are only able to sell the product for less than they paid for it.
- range paralysis — Marek's disease.
- reading glasses — spectacles
- reality testing — the objective evaluation of situations, defective in certain psychoses, that enable one to distinguish between the external and the internal worlds and between the self and the nonself.
- relapsing fever — one of a group of fevers characterized by relapses, occurring in many tropical countries, and caused by several species of spirochetes transmitted by several species of lice and ticks.
- remonstratingly — in an remonstrating or dissenting manner
- reversing falls — a series of rapids in the Saint John River, New Brunswick, Canada, the flow of which regularly reverses itself owing to the force an incoming tide
- revolving stage — a circular platform divided into segments enabling multiple theater sets to be put in place in advance and in turn rotated into view of the audience.
- rigel kentaurus — Alpha Centauri.
- rigil kentaurus — Astronomy. Alpha Centauri.
- rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- rolling targets — a series of targets which are reviewed periodically so that they always extend for the same period into the future
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- royal engineers — a branch of the British army that undertakes the building of fortifications, mines, bridges, and other engineering works
- sauce espagnole — brown sauce.
- scarlet tanager — an American tanager, Piranga olivacea, the male of which is bright red with black wings and tail during the breeding season.
- school teaching — School teaching is the work done by teachers in a school.
- sebaceous gland — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
- second language — a language learned by a person after his or her native language, especially as a resident of an area where it is in general use.
- self-abnegation — self-denial or self-sacrifice.
- self-afflicting — to distress with mental or bodily pain; trouble greatly or grievously: to be afflicted with arthritis.
- self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
- self-flattering — praise and exaggeration of one's own achievements coupled with a denial or glossing over of one's faults or failings; self-congratulation.
- self-generating — producing from within itself.
- self-generation — production or reproduction of something without the aid of an external agent; spontaneous generation.
- self-immolating — of, relating to, or tending toward self-immolation.
- self-lacerating — to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
- self-management — the act or manner of managing; handling, direction, or control.
- self-regulating — adjusting, ruling, or governing itself without outside interference; operating or functioning without externally imposed controls or regulations: a self-regulating economy; the self-regulating market.
- self-regulation — control by oneself or itself, as in an economy, business organization, etc., especially such control as exercised independently of governmental supervision, laws, or the like.
- self-satisfying — effecting satisfaction to oneself.
- self-sustaining — self-supporting.
- self-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
- senior wrangler — (at Cambridge University) a candidate who has obtained first-class honours in Part II of the mathematics tripos and got the highest marks
- sergeant at law — a noncommissioned army officer of a rank above that of corporal.
- serial monogamy — a form of monogamy characterized by several successive, short-term marriages over the course of a lifetime.
- shire highlands — an upland area of S Malawi. Average height: 900 m (3000 ft)