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15-letter words containing g, r, a, p

  • interiorscaping — The design, installation, and maintenance of interiorscapes.
  • interphalangeal — Between phalanges, as with an interphalangeal joint.
  • interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
  • 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
  • japanese spurge — a low Japanese plant, Pachysandra terminalis, having evergreen leaves and spikes of white flowers, grown as a ground cover.
  • knapping hammer — a hammer used for breaking and shaping stones
  • langres plateau — a calcareous plateau of E France north of Dijon between the Seine and the Saône, reaching over 580 m (1900 ft): forms a watershed between rivers flowing to the Mediterranean and to the English Channel
  • 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).
  • leaving present — a present given to a person when they leave a job, place etc
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • lexicographical — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
  • 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.
  • loading program — a series of instructions entered automatically in a program that starts the processing.
  • long parliament — the Parliament that assembled November 3, 1640, was expelled by Cromwell in 1653, reconvened in 1659, and was dissolved in 1660.
  • low archipelago — a group of French islands in the S Pacific. 332 sq. mi. (860 sq. km).
  • lung transplant — a medical operation in which the lungs are taken out of someone who has died and are placed into another person's body
  • luster painting — a method of decorating glazed pottery with metallic pigment, originated in Persia, popular from the 9th through the mid-19th centuries.
  • lymphogranuloma — any of certain diseases characterized by granulomatous lesions of lymph nodes.
  • macrophotograph — a photograph taken at very close range
  • macrosporangium — megasporangium.
  • magnetic stripe — magnetic strip.
  • magnetoreceptor — The part of an organism responsible for magnetoreception.
  • malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
  • markup language — a set of standards, as HTML or SGML, used to create an appropriate markup scheme for an electronic document, as to indicate its structure or format.
  • 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.
  • master-planning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
  • measuring spoon — a spoon for measuring amounts, as in cooking, usually part of a set of spoons of different sizes.
  • megacorporation — a giant company formed from two or more large companies or a number of companies of various sizes.
  • microangiopathy — any disease of the small blood vessels.
  • micropegmatitic — relating to, or designating, a microscopic pegmatitic structure
  • microphotograph — microfilm (def 1).
  • microradiograph — an enlarged version of an image obtained by a form of radiography that reveals minute details
  • microsporangium — a sporangium containing microspores.
  • microtopography — microrelief.
  • midgard serpent — a serpent, the child of Loki and Angerboda, who lies wrapped around the world, tail in mouth, and is destined to kill and to be killed by Thor at Ragnarok; Jormungand.
  • misapprehending — Present participle of misapprehend.
  • morning prayers — early-morning act of religious worship
  • morphologically — the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms.
  • napier-hastings — a seaport on E North Island, in New Zealand.
  • nasopharyngitis — (medicine) An inflammation of the nasal passages, and of the upper pharynx.
  • negative profit — a financial loss
  • negro spiritual — a type of religious song originating among Black slaves in the American South
  • neuropathologic — Of or pertaining to neuropathology.
  • nitramino group — the univalent group –NHNO 2 .
  • non-disparaging — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
  • non-overlapping — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
  • nonbiographical — not biographical, not relating to biography or events in a person's life
  • nonphotographic — not involving photographic equipment or techniques
  • onward progress — progress that advances or improves (a situation, etc)
  • operating cycle — the period of time between starting a business and making a profit
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