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15-letter words containing g, r, a, i, n, e

  • risk management — the technique or profession of assessing, minimizing, and preventing accidental loss to a business, as through the use of insurance, safety measures, etc.
  • riverbank grape — a high-climbing vine, Vitis riparia, of eastern North America, having fragrant flowers and nearly black fruit.
  • roaring forties — the stormy oceanic areas between 40° and 50° south latitude
  • roger bannister — Sir Roger (Gilbert) born 1929, English track and field athlete: first to run a mile in less than four minutes.
  • rolling bearing — any bearing in which the antifriction action depends on the rolling action of balls or rollers
  • rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • rolling targets — a series of targets which are reviewed periodically so that they always extend for the same period into the future
  • rough breathing — the symbol (ʿ) used in the writing of Greek to indicate aspiration of the initial vowel or of the ρ (rho) over which it is placed.
  • routeing domain — (networking)   (US "routing") A set of routers that exchange routeing information within an administrative domain.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • royal engineers — a branch of the British army that undertakes the building of fortifications, mines, bridges, and other engineering works
  • running repairs — repairs, as to a machine or vehicle, that are minor and can be made with little or no interruption in the use of the item
  • santa gertrudis — one of an American breed of beef cattle, developed from Shorthorn and Brahman stock for endurance to torrid temperatures.
  • sarcoptic mange — mange caused by burrowing mites of the genus Sarcoptes.
  • sausage turning — turning of members to resemble a continuous row of sausages flattened at the ends.
  • schiffs-reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • segregationists — one who favors, encourages, or practices segregation, especially racial segregation.
  • self-flattering — praise and exaggeration of one's own achievements coupled with a denial or glossing over of one's faults or failings; self-congratulation.
  • self-generating — producing from within itself.
  • self-generation — production or reproduction of something without the aid of an external agent; spontaneous generation.
  • self-lacerating — to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
  • self-regulating — adjusting, ruling, or governing itself without outside interference; operating or functioning without externally imposed controls or regulations: a self-regulating economy; the self-regulating market.
  • self-regulation — control by oneself or itself, as in an economy, business organization, etc., especially such control as exercised independently of governmental supervision, laws, or the like.
  • semi-vegetarian — a person who eats mostly plant foods, dairy products, and eggs, and occasionally chicken, fish, and red meat.
  • semipornography — partial pornography; material that is almost pornographic
  • senior wrangler — (at Cambridge University) a candidate who has obtained first-class honours in Part II of the mathematics tripos and got the highest marks
  • serial monogamy — a form of monogamy characterized by several successive, short-term marriages over the course of a lifetime.
  • sharing economy — a system in which people rent, borrow, or share commodities, services, and resources owned by individuals, usually with the aid of online technology, in an effort to save money, cut costs, and reduce waste.
  • shearing strain — a coefficient of elasticity of a substance, expressing the ratio between the force per unit area (shearing stress) that laterally deforms the substance and the shear (shearing strain) that is produced by this force.
  • shearing stress — a force causing two contacting parts or layers to slide upon each other, in opposite directions parallel to the plane of their contact
  • shearing-stress — a coefficient of elasticity of a substance, expressing the ratio between the force per unit area (shearing stress) that laterally deforms the substance and the shear (shearing strain) that is produced by this force.
  • shire highlands — an upland area of S Malawi. Average height: 900 m (3000 ft)
  • shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof
  • silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
  • singapore sling — a cocktail of gin, cherry brandy, sugar, and water.
  • singing teacher — a teacher who gives instruction in how to sing
  • single standard — a single set of principles or rules applying to everyone, as a single moral code applying to both men and women, especially in sexual behavior. Compare double standard.
  • single-breasted — (of a coat, jacket, etc.) having a front closure directly in the center with only a narrow overlap secured by a single button or row of buttons.
  • slab plastering — coarse plastering, as between the studs in a half-timbered wall.
  • slavonian grebe — a N Eurasian or N American grebe with reddish underside and a black and gold crest; Podiceps auritus
  • smoking-related — (of a disease, illness, etc) caused by smoking tobacco, etc
  • snapping turtle — either of two large, edible, freshwater turtles of the family Chelydridae, of North and Central America, having a large head and powerful hooked jaws, especially the common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina.
  • sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
  • speech training — training designed to improve spoken skills, such as voice projection
  • spermatogenesis — the origin and development of spermatozoa.
  • spherical angle — an angle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
  • sporting chance — an even or fair opportunity for a favorable outcome in an enterprise, as winning in a game of chance or in any kind of contest: They gave the less experienced players a sporting chance by handicapping the experts.
  • spread sampling — the selection of a corpus for statistical analysis by selecting a number of short passages at random throughout the work and considering their aggregation
  • spring mattress — a mattress containing an arrangement of spiral springs
  • spring-cleaning — a complete cleaning of a place, as a home, done traditionally in the spring of the year.
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