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15-letter words containing g, l, s

  • 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.
  • franklin's gull — a black-headed North American gull, Larus pipixcan, feeding chiefly on insects.
  • fringe festival — an unofficial, often unconventional, arts festival that is associated with another, larger festival
  • fungistatically — in a fungistatic manner
  • gallant soldier — a South American plant, Galinsoga parviflora, widely distributed as a weed, having small daisy-like flowers surrounded by silvery scales: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • galloping-ghost — Harold ("Red"; "the Galloping Ghost") 1903–1991, U.S. football player.
  • gambier islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean, in French Polynesia. Chief settlement: Rikitéa. Pop: 1097 (2002). Area: 30 sq km (11 sq miles)
  • gambling losses — money lost as a result of playing games of chance for money
  • gardening tools — tools used for gardening, such as a trowel, spade, rake, etc
  • gas oil contact — In a reservoir, gas oil contact is the area containing a mix of gas and oil, below which there is mainly oil and above which there is mainly gas.
  • gas-guzzler tax — a tax imposed on the purchase price of an automobile not meeting fuel efficiency standards.
  • gaspe peninsula — a peninsula in SE Canada, in Quebec province, between New Brunswick and the St. Lawrence River.
  • gastric balloon — an inflatable rubber bag placed in the stomach to reduce its capacity as an aid to losing weight
  • gastronomically — the art or science of good eating.
  • gatefold sleeve — a record sleeve that opens out like a book
  • gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
  • general paresis — a syphilitic brain disorder characterized by chronic inflammation and degeneration of cerebral tissue resulting in mental and physical deterioration.
  • general science — basic science taught as a school subject
  • general servant — a domestic servant who performs general tasks
  • general studies — a school subject that includes a variety of skills and topics (such as comprehension, and current affairs, which may complement the study of A-levels in specific subjects)
  • general-purpose — useful in many ways; not limited in use or function: a good general-purpose dictionary.
  • generalisations — Plural form of generalisation.
  • generalizations — Plural form of generalization.
  • gentlemanliness — like, befitting, or characteristic of a gentleman.
  • geochronologist — A geologist whose speciality is geochronology.
  • geomorphologist — A geologist whose speciality is geomorphology.
  • george marshall — Alfred, 1842–1924, English economist.
  • geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
  • gesneria family — the plant family Gesneriaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having a basal rosette of usually toothed leaves, tubular two-lipped flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the African violet, gloxinia, and streptocarpus.
  • gestalt therapy — holistic psychotherapy
  • get hold of sth — If you get hold of an object or information, you obtain it, usually after some difficulty.
  • get one's lumps — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
  • ghetto fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
  • ghetto-fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
  • giant sunflower — a composite plant, Helianthus giganteus, of eastern North America, growing nearly 12 feet (4 meters) high and having very large yellow flower heads.
  • gibson, william — William Gibson
  • gilbert islands — a group of islands in the W Pacific: with Banaba, the Phoenix Islands, and three of the Line Islands they constitute the independent state of Kiribati; until 1975 they formed part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands; achieved full independence in 1979. Pop: 82 902 (2005). Area: 295 sq km (114 sq miles)
  • girdle traverse — a climb that consists of a complete traverse of a face or crag
  • glanville-hicks — Peggy, 1912–1990, U.S. composer and music critic, born in Australia.
  • glass harmonica — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated, revolving glass bowls, the rims of which are moistened and set in vibration by friction from the fingertips.
  • glass menagerie — a play (1945) by Tennessee Williams.
  • glazier's point — a small, pointed piece of sheet metal, for holding a pane of glass in a sash until the putty has hardened.
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