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15-letter words containing g, l, e, n, r

  • sliver building — a very narrow skyscraper designed in response to restriction of the building site or zoning, frequently containing only a single apartment per floor or comparably limited office space.
  • smoking-related — (of a disease, illness, etc) caused by smoking tobacco, etc
  • snapping turtle — either of two large, edible, freshwater turtles of the family Chelydridae, of North and Central America, having a large head and powerful hooked jaws, especially the common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina.
  • soul-destroying — Activities or situations that are soul-destroying make you depressed, because they are boring or because there is no hope of improvement.
  • source language — the language in which a text appears that is to be translated into another language. Compare target language (def 1).
  • 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.
  • sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
  • spelling reform — an attempt to change the spelling of English words to make it conform more closely to pronunciation.
  • spherical angle — an angle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
  • spirit leveling — leveling according to the indications of a spirit level.
  • spread sampling — the selection of a corpus for statistical analysis by selecting a number of short passages at random throughout the work and considering their aggregation
  • spring-cleaning — a complete cleaning of a place, as a home, done traditionally in the spring of the year.
  • starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
  • steel engraving — a method of incising letters, designs, etc., on steel.
  • steering column — the shaft that connects the steering wheel to the steering gear assembly of an automotive vehicle.
  • sterling silver — of, relating to, or noting British money: The sterling equivalent is #5.50.
  • stirling engine — an external-combustion engine in which heat from outside the cylinders causes air confined in the cylinders to expand and drive the pistons.
  • stocking filler — A stocking filler is a small present that is suitable for putting in a Christmas stocking.
  • street lighting — the provision of lighting at night in public places to illuminate the streets
  • striking circle — the semicircular area in front of each goal, which an attacking player must have entered before scoring a goal
  • string variable — data on which arithmetical operations will not be performed
  • 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
  • structural gene — cistron.
  • summer triangle — a group of three first-magnitude stars (Deneb, Vega, and Altair) visible during the summer in the N skies
  • supporting role — acting: secondary part
  • surgeon general — the chief of medical services in one of the armed forces.
  • surgical needle — a needle for suturing.
  • swallow-tanager — a tropical American bird, Tersina viridis, related to the true tanagers but with longer, swallowlike wings.
  • synergistically — pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling synergy: a synergistic effect.
  • talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
  • target language — the language into which a text is to be translated from another language. Compare source language (def 1).
  • telegraph plant — a tick trefoil, Desmodium motorium, of the legume family, native to tropical Asia, noted for the spontaneous, jerking, signallike motions of its leaflets.
  • the anglo-irish — the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent
  • the everlasting — God
  • the saint leger — an annual horse race run at Doncaster since 1776: one of the classics of the flat-racing season
  • thermal imaging — Thermal imaging is the use of special equipment that can detect the heat produced by people or things and use it to produce images of them.
  • thimble-rigging — a sleight-of-hand swindling game in which the operator palms a pellet or pea while appearing to cover it with one of three thimblelike cups, and then, moving the cups about, offers to bet that no one can tell under which cup the pellet or pea lies.
  • toilet training — child: process of learning to use toilet
  • training wheels — a pair of small wheels attached one on each side of the rear wheel of a bicycle for stability while one is learning to ride.
  • transfer lounge — the place in an airport where you wait for a transfer from one flight to another
  • transgressional — of or relating to transgression
  • traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
  • travelling wave — a wave carrying energy away from its source
  • treacle pudding — a sponge cake with syrup on top
  • triple integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of three variables and which requires three applications of the integration process to evaluate.
  • troubleshooting — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
  • tubal pregnancy — pregnancy that grows in fallopian tube
  • tumbling barrel — a rotating drum for subjecting materials or small manufactured objects, loosely placed inside, to a tumbling action, as to mix materials or to polish objects by friction with one another or with an abrasive.
  • tunbridge wells — a city in SW Kent, in SE England: mineral springs; resort.
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