15-letter words containing g, l, i, d, e
- highland cattle — a breed of cattle with shaggy hair, usually reddish-brown in colour, and long horns
- hindenburg line — a line of elaborate fortifications established by the German army in World War I, near the French-Belgian border, from Lille SE to Metz.
- holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
- holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
- holiday cottage — a cottage used for accommodation for a family, couple, etc, on holiday
- holiday feeling — the positive feeling people experience while on holiday and during holiday periods such as the Christmas period
- holiday village — a park with villas where holidaymakers stay and which has a central area with a shop, entertainment, etc
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- idealized image — a personal standard of perfection against which one's actual thinking, behavior, and appearance are compared.
- ideographically — an ideogram.
- idiot's delight — any variety of the card game solitaire.
- indigestibility — The state of being indigestible.
- infrared galaxy — a galaxy that radiates strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- insider dealing — dealing in company securities on a recognized stock exchange, with a view to making a profit or avoiding a loss, by a person who has confidential information about the securities that, if generally known, would affect their price. Its practice by those connected with a company is illegal
- integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
- island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
- keeling islands — Cocos Islands
- knitting needle — either of two types of instruments used for hand knitting: a straight rod of steel, wood, plastic, etc., pointed at one or both ends, used in pairs, or a single curved, flexible rod with two pointed ends.
- ladies' gallery — a gallery in the old House of Commons set aside for women spectators
- lady's-earrings — any of several plants having pendent flowers thought to resemble earrings, as the jewelweed or the fuchsia.
- laminated glass — Laminated glass is safety glass in which a transparent plastic film is placed between plates of glass.
- laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
- leading article — Also called leader. the most important or prominent news story in a newspaper.
- leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
- leading strings — strings or straps formerly used to guide and support a young child learning to walk
- lending library — Also called circulating library, rental library. a small library that is maintained by a commercial establishment, as a drugstore, and is composed largely of current books that are lent to customers for a fee.
- lepidopterology — the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.
- light and shade — If you say that there is light and shade in something such as a performance, you mean you like it because different parts of it are different in tone or mood.
- lightheadedness — Alternative spelling of light-headedness.
- like grim death — as if afraid for one's life
- linear ordering — an ordering that is reflexive, antisymmetric, transitive, and connected, as less than or equal to on the involved integers
- liquid nitrogen — nitrogen in a liquid state
- listed building — (in Britain) a building officially recognized as having special historical or architectural interest and therefore protected from demolition or alteration
- logical address — virtual address
- long-tailed tit — a small European songbird, Aegithalos caudatus, with a black, white, and pink plumage and a very long tail: family Paridae (tits)
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- longsightedness — Farsight; farsightedness; far sight; long sight.
- lord high fixer — [Primarily British, from Gilbert & Sullivan's "Lord High Executioner"] The person in an organisation who knows the most about some aspect of a system. See wizard.
- loving-kindness — tender kindness motivated by or expressing affection.
- lynden pindling — Lynden Oscar ("Father of the Bahamas") 1930–2000, Bahamian political leader: first prime minister 1967–92.
- magnetic needle — a slender magnetized steel rod that, when adjusted to swing in a horizontal plane, as in a compass, indicates the direction of the earth's magnetic fields or the approximate position of north and south.
- mailing address — postal or delivery address
- make a big deal — If someone makes a big deal out of something, they make a fuss about it or treat it as if it were very important.
- meibomian gland — any of the small sebaceous glands in the eyelid, beneath the conjunctiva
- mineral kingdom — minerals collectively.
- mollier diagram — a graph showing the enthalpy of a substance as a function of its entropy when some physical property of the substance, as temperature or pressure, is kept at a specified constant value.
- moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
- night blindness — a condition of the eyes in which vision is normal in daylight but abnormally poor at night or in a dim light; nyctalopia.
- nimble-fingered — able to move the fingers agilely, quickly, and neatly
- nitriding steel — any steel suitable for casehardening by nitriding.