15-letter words containing g, o, t, n
- 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.
- interrogatories — conveying or expressing a question; interrogative.
- into the ground — beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
- investigational — Of, or relating to investigating, or to an investigation.
- ipod generation — members of the generation of adults born after 1970, who are less financially secure than their parents, due to student debt, high house prices, and job insecurity
- job enlargement — a widening of the range of tasks performed by an employee in order to provide variety in the activities undertaken
- jobbing printer — a person who prints mainly commercial and display work rather than books or newspapers
- joint agreement — a formal decision about future action which is made by two or more countries, groups, or people
- joint financing — the provision of funds for a project, etc, from two or more sources
- kinesthesiology — The medical and therapeutic study of the movement of muscles and joints.
- kingsford-smith — Sir Charles (Edward). 1897–1935, Australian aviator and pioneer (with Charles Ulm) of trans-Pacific and trans-Tasman flights
- knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
- lactovegetarian — Also called lactarian. a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products.
- lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)
- langston hughes — Charles Evans, 1862–1948, U.S. jurist and statesman: chief justice of the U.S. 1930–41.
- laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
- laryngotracheal — of, relating to, or involving the larynx and trachea.
- legion of merit — a decoration ranking below the Silver Star and above the Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded to U.S. and foreign military personnel for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the U.S.
- 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.
- leptomeningitis — (pathology) inflammation of the leptomeninges.
- leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
- light pollution — unwanted or harmful light, as from bright street lights or neon signs.
- limiting factor — Physiology. the slowest, therefore rate-limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps.
- 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.
- linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
- liquid nitrogen — nitrogen in a liquid state
- lobster newburg — (sometimes lowercase) lobster cooked in a thick seasoned cream sauce made with sherry or brandy.
- long parliament — the Parliament that assembled November 3, 1640, was expelled by Cromwell in 1653, reconvened in 1659, and was dissolved in 1660.
- long sweetening — liquid sweetening, as maple syrup, molasses, or sorghum.
- long-tailed tit — a small European songbird, Aegithalos caudatus, with a black, white, and pink plumage and a very long tail: family Paridae (tits)
- longhorn cattle — cattle of a long-horned breed, usually red or variegated, formerly common in SW US
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- longsightedness — Farsight; farsightedness; far sight; long sight.
- lord-in-waiting — a nobleman in attendance on a British monarch or the Prince of Wales.
- 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.
- lubricating oil — an oily substance that is used to cover or treat machinery so as to lessen friction
- madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
- magnesioferrite — (mineralogy) A magnesium iron oxide mineral, a member of the magnetite series of spinels, which forms black metallic octahedral crystals.
- magnetic bottle — Physics. a magnetic field so shaped that it can confine a plasma: used in a proposed design for fusion reactors.
- magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
- magnetic domain — a portion of a ferromagnetic material where the magnetic moments are aligned with one another because of interactions between molecules or atoms.
- magnetic mirror — a region in a magnetic bottle where the magnetic field increases abruptly, causing charged particles that enter it to be reflected.
- magnetic moment — a vector quantity associated with a given electric current, magnet, or the like, having the property that its vector product with the magnetic induction equals the torque acting on the given object.
- magnetoelectric — of or relating to the induction of electric current or electromotive force by means of permanent magnets.
- magnetoreceptor — The part of an organism responsible for magnetoreception.
- magnetorheology — the study of the relationships between the particle and fluid properties of magnetic suspensions.
- main-topgallant — the main-topgallantmast, its sail, or its yard.
- make a thing of — to make a fuss about; exaggerate the importance of