15-letter words containing g, l, e, n, r
- organochlorines — Plural form of organochlorine.
- organomercurial — an organic compound containing mercury
- outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
- over-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
- overcontrolling — excessively controlling
- oxygen cylinder — a metal cylinder containing oxygen under pressure
- paedophile ring — a group of people who take part in illegal sexual activity involving children
- palaeontography — the branch of palaeontology concerned with the description of fossils
- parent language — an earlier language from which another is derived.
- pelargonic acid — a colorless, oily, water-immiscible liquid, C 9 H 1 8 O 2 , occurring as an ester in a volatile oil in species of pelargonium: used chiefly in organic synthesis and in the manufacture of lacquers and plastics.
- personal growth — development as an individual
- phenylene group — any of three bivalent, isomeric groups having the formula –C 6 H 4 –, derived from benzene by the removal of two hydrogen atoms.
- phrenologically — in a manner relating to phrenology
- pig, run like a — To run very slowly on given hardware, said of software. Distinct from hog.
- 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
- plant agreement — a collective agreement at plant level within industry
- plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
- plea bargaining — pleading guilty to a lesser charge
- pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
- 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.
- problem-solving — skills, process: of finding solutions
- propylene group — the bivalent group −CH(CH 3)CH 2 −, derived from propylene or propane.
- public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- 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.
- quarantine flag — a yellow flag, designating the letter Q in the International Code of Signals: flown by itself to signify that a ship has no disease on board and requests a pratique, or flown with another flag to signify that there is disease on board ship.
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- range paralysis — Marek's disease.
- reading glasses — spectacles
- 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
- 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.
- recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- recording angel — an angel who supposedly keeps a record of every person's good and bad acts
- recycling plant — a factory for processing used or abandoned materials
- red jungle fowl — any of several East Indian, gallinaceous birds of the genus Gallus, as G. gallus (red jungle fowl) believed to be the ancestor of the domestic fowl.
- reentrant angle — in a polygon, an interior angle greater than 180°, with its point turning back into the figure rather than out from it
- refamiliarizing — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
- regimental band — a band made up of a military formation varying in size from a battalion to a number of battalions
- regionalization — the process or tendency of dividing a country into administrative regions
- regulation time — the standard duration of a sports game, before the addition of any extra time to determine a winner, etc
- regulatory gene — any gene that exercises control over the expression of another gene or genes.
- 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.
- relief-printing — prominence, distinctness, or vividness due to contrast.
- 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.
- remonstratingly — in an remonstrating or dissenting manner
- rendering plant — a factory where waste products and livestock carcasses are converted into industrial fats and oils (such as tallow, used to make soap) and other products (such as fertilizer)
- resolving power — Optics. the ability of an optical device to produce separate images of close objects.
- 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.