15-letter words containing g, o, a, l, e, r
- hyperpolarizing — Present participle of hyperpolarize.
- ideographically — an ideogram.
- imperial gallon — a British gallon used in liquid and dry measurement equivalent to 1.2 U.S. gallons, or 4.54 liters.
- integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
- intercollegiate — taking place between or participating in activities between different colleges: intercollegiate athletics.
- interrogatingly — So as to interrogate; with urgent or bullying questioning.
- interrogational — the act of interrogating; questioning.
- interrogatively — In an interrogative manner; by means of a question.
- island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
- job enlargement — a widening of the range of tasks performed by an employee in order to provide variety in the activities undertaken
- journal bearing — a plain cylindrical bearing to support a shaft or axle
- juxtaglomerular — (anatomy) Near, or adjoining a renal glomerulus.
- knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
- labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
- lactovegetarian — Also called lactarian. a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products.
- largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
- laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
- laryngotracheal — of, relating to, or involving the larynx and trachea.
- laser ring gyro — a system of aerial navigation in which rotation is sensed by the measuring of the frequency shift of laser light in a closed circuit in a horizontal plane
- law of averages — a statistical principle formulated by Jakob Bernoulli to show a more or less predictable ratio between the number of random trials of an event and its occurrences.
- lay a finger on — to harm
- leapfrog attack — Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).
- leaves of grass — a book of poems (first edition, 1855; final edition, 1891–92) by Walt Whitman.
- legacy software — legacy system
- legal successor — a person or thing that legally follows, esp a person who succeeds another in an office
- lemon-grass oil — a yellowish to brownish oil distilled from the leaves of certain lemon grasses, especially Cymbopogon citratus, used chiefly in perfumery.
- length over all — Nautical. the entire length of a vessel, measured from the foremost point of the bow to the aftermost point of the stern.
- leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
- lexicographical — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- linear ordering — an ordering that is reflexive, antisymmetric, transitive, and connected, as less than or equal to on the involved integers
- linear topology — (theory) A linear topology on a left A-module M is a topology on M that is invariant under translations and admits a fundamental system of neighborhood of 0 that consists of submodules of M. If there is such a topology, M is said to be linearly topologized. If A is given a discrete topology, then M becomes a topological A-module with respect to a linear topology.
- logical address — virtual address
- long parliament — the Parliament that assembled November 3, 1640, was expelled by Cromwell in 1653, reconvened in 1659, and was dissolved in 1660.
- long-grain rice — a type of rice that has long grains, rather than round grains
- long-sufferance — long-suffering.
- longhorn cattle — cattle of a long-horned breed, usually red or variegated, formerly common in SW US
- look daggers at — to look at with anger or hatred
- lost generation — the generation of men and women who came of age during or immediately following World War I: viewed, as a result of their war experiences and the social upheaval of the time, as cynical, disillusioned, and without cultural or emotional stability.
- low archipelago — a group of French islands in the S Pacific. 332 sq. mi. (860 sq. km).
- lucrezia borgia — Cesare [che-zah-re] /ˈtʃɛ zɑ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1476?–1507, Italian cardinal, military leader, and politician.
- magnetoelectric — of or relating to the induction of electric current or electromotive force by means of permanent magnets.
- magnetorheology — the study of the relationships between the particle and fluid properties of magnetic suspensions.
- make a long arm — to reach out for something, as from a sitting position
- malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
- marlborough leg — a tapered leg having a square section.
- massage parlour — A massage parlour is a place where people go and pay for a massage. Some places that are called massage parlours are in fact places where people pay to have sex.
- megalokaryocyte — Megakaryocyte.
- messier catalog — a catalog of nonstellar objects compiled by Charles Messier in 1784 and later slightly extended, now known to contain nebulae, galaxies, and star clusters.
- metallo-organic — organometallic.
- mineral kingdom — minerals collectively.