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15-letter words containing g, o, d, n, e, s

  • onward progress — progress that advances or improves (a situation, etc)
  • orangeman's day — the 12th of July, celebrated by Protestants in Northern Ireland to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne (1690)
  • orangemen's day — July 12, an annual celebration in Northern Ireland and certain cities having a large Irish section, especially Liverpool, to mark both the victory of William III over James II at the Battle of the Boyne, July 1, 1690, and the Battle of Augbrim, July 12, 1690.
  • organic disease — a disease in which there is a structural alteration (opposed to functional disease).
  • organized chaos — a complex situation or process that appears chaotic while having enough order to achieve progress or goals
  • outstandingness — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
  • paphian goddess — Aphrodite, worshiped in Cyprus as the goddess of sexual love.
  • pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
  • pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
  • pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
  • pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
  • registered bond — a bond recorded in the name of the owner.
  • rendering works — (used with a singular verb) a factory or plant that renders and processes livestock carcasses into tallow, hides, fertilizer, etc.
  • rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • schooner-rigged — rigged as a schooner, especially with gaff sails and staysails only.
  • scolding bridle — branks.
  • scrounge around — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
  • sebaceous gland — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
  • second blessing — an experience of sanctification coming after conversion.
  • second language — a language learned by a person after his or her native language, especially as a resident of an area where it is in general use.
  • second mortgage — a mortgage the lien of which is next in priority to a first mortgage.
  • second thoughts — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
  • secondary group — a group of people with whom one's contacts are detached and impersonal.
  • secundogeniture — the state of being the second born child
  • self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof
  • shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • shoulder-length — Shoulder-length hair is long enough to reach your shoulders.
  • silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
  • sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
  • smoking-related — (of a disease, illness, etc) caused by smoking tobacco, etc
  • snaggle toothed — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
  • snaggle-toothed — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
  • sneezing powder — a powder used to make people sneeze as a practical joke
  • social spending — the money that is spent on welfare payments
  • soul-destroying — Activities or situations that are soul-destroying make you depressed, because they are boring or because there is no hope of improvement.
  • sound deadening — a process or material that reduces the resonance or volume of sound
  • sounding rocket — a rocket equipped with instruments for making meteorological observations in the upper atmosphere.
  • stage direction — an instruction written into the script of a play, indicating stage actions, movements of performers, or production requirements.
  • standing orders — Military. (formerly) a general order always in force in a command and establishing uniform procedures for it; standard operating procedure.
  • steroidogenesis — the formation of steroids, as by the adrenal cortex, testes, and ovaries.
  • suicide bombing — a terrorist bomb attack in which the perpetrator knows that he or she will be killed in the explosion
  • to change hands — When something changes hands, its ownership changes, usually because it is sold to someone else.
  • toughened glass — glass that has been made stronger using chemical or thermal treatments so that it will not break easily
  • uncondescending — showing or implying a usually patronizing descent from dignity or superiority: They resented the older neighbors' condescending cordiality.
  • uncorresponding — identical in all essentials or respects: corresponding fingerprints.
  • vortex shedding — the process by which vortices formed continuously by the aerodynamic conditions associated with a solid body in a gas or air stream are carried downstream by the flow in the form of a vortex street
  • window dressing — the art, act, or technique of trimming the display windows of a store.
  • window-dressing — the art, act, or technique of trimming the display windows of a store.
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