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15-letter words containing g, o, d, l

  • goldenrain tree — a small, deciduous Asian tree (Koelreuteria paniculata) of the soapberry family having small yellow flowers and papery fruit pods
  • goldilocks zone — a zone around a star having temperatures and other conditions that can support life on planets: Mars is thought to lie on the outer edge of the sun's Goldilocks zone.
  • good-fellowship — a pleasant, convivial spirit; comradeship; geniality.
  • gorlin syndrome — a rare congenital disorder in which cancer destroys the facial skin and causes blindness; skeletal anomalies can also occur
  • grade inflation — the awarding of higher grades than students deserve either to maintain a school's academic reputation or as a result of diminished teacher expectations.
  • graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
  • grand old party — G.O.P.
  • grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • grimes (golden) — a yellow autumn eating apple
  • grind to a halt — If a country's economy or something such as a process grinds to a halt, it gradually becomes slower or less active until it stops.
  • gros de londres — a cross-ribbed, silk dress fabric with ribs alternating in color or between coarse and fine yarn.
  • ground landlord — a landlord who receives ground rent.
  • ground squirrel — any of several terrestrial rodents of the squirrel family, as of the genus Citellus and chipmunks of the genus Tamias. circ;circ;
  • groundwood pulp — wood pulp consisting of groundwood that has not been cooked or chemically treated, used for making newsprint and other poorer grades of paper.
  • guild socialism — a form of socialism developed in England in the 20th century, emphasizing decentralization of industry and services with control to be vested in autonomous guilds of workers.
  • gulf of finland — an arm of the Baltic Sea between Finland, Estonia, and Russia
  • hard-boiled egg — egg boiled until the yolk is set
  • holding company — a company that controls other companies through stock ownership but that usually does not engage directly in their productive operations (distinguished from parent company).
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • holding paddock — a paddock in which cattle or sheep are kept temporarily, as before shearing, etc
  • 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
  • horned oak gall — a small, round tumor, formed around wasp eggs laid in the branches of a pin oak tree, that disrupts the flow of nutrients to the tree, with consequent defoliation and death.
  • household goods — kitchenware and other utensils for use in the home
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • hydrobiological — of or relating to hydrobiology
  • hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
  • ideographically — an ideogram.
  • idiot's delight — any variety of the card game solitaire.
  • in a good light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
  • indicator light — a device for indicating that a motor vehicle is about to turn left or right; blinker
  • 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
  • judge of appeal — a judge who sits in a Court of Appeal
  • kangaroo island — an island in the Indian Ocean, off South Australia. Area: 4350 sq km (1680 sq miles)
  • knowledge level — (artificial intelligence)   A level of description of the knowledge of an agent that is independent of the agent's internal symbol-level representation. Knowledge can be attributed to agents by observing their actions. An agent "knows" something if it acts as if it had the information and is acting rationally to achieve its goals. The "actions" of agents, including knowledge base servers and knowledge-based systems, can be seen through a "tell and ask" functional interface, where a client interacts with an agent by making logical assertions (tell), and posing queries (ask).
  • knowledge-based — characterized by the dominance of information services as an area of growth
  • langue de boeuf — ox-tongue partisan.
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
  • leaf-footed bug — any of numerous plant-sucking or predaceous bugs of the family Coreidae, typically having leaflike legs: several species are pests of food crops.
  • lepidopterology — the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.
  • lift-drag ratio — the ratio of the lift to the drag of an airfoil.
  • 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
  • loading program — a series of instructions entered automatically in a program that starts the processing.
  • lodgepole creek — a river in SE Wyoming, SW Nebraska, and NE Colorado, flowing E to the South Platte River. 212 miles (341 km) long.
  • logical address — virtual address
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