15-letter words containing g, r, i, n, d, a
- social drinking — the practice of drinking alcohol occasionally and usually only in social situations
- social-drinking — a person who drinks alcoholic beverages usually in the company of others and is in control of his or her drinking.
- spawning ground — a place where fish deposit their eggs for fertilization
- 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
- stage direction — an instruction written into the script of a play, indicating stage actions, movements of performers, or production requirements.
- stamping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
- standard lining — a system for aligning type so that all fonts of the same point size have a common baseline.
- standing charge — fixed energy costs
- standing orders — Military. (formerly) a general order always in force in a command and establishing uniform procedures for it; standard operating procedure.
- starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
- surgical needle — a needle for suturing.
- target audience — the target audience of a programme is the group of people that the programme-makers are trying to persuade to watch or listen to it
- the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
- thought reading — mind reading.
- tracking device — an electronic security device which allows you to monitor the location of a person or object, esp a vehicle
- trading account — an account similar to a traditional bank account, holding cash and securities, and administered by an investment dealer
- trading capital — the total amount of money available for buying assets
- trading company — a company that is owned by the people who have bought shares in that company
- trading partner — a person, organization, or country with whom somebody customarily does business
- trading profits — profits made from the buying and selling of goods and services
- training ground — an area where people prepare for sporting competitions, with activities primarily concentrating on skills and fitness
- treacle pudding — a sponge cake with syrup on top
- understandingly — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
- untransmigrated — not transmigrated; not transferred or caused to be transferred
- uropygial gland — a gland opening on the back at the base of the tail in most birds that secretes an oily fluid used by the bird in preening its feathers.
- vaginal dryness — abnormal dryness of the vagina, caused by lack of natural lubrication
- variant reading — an alternative interpretation of a word in a text to the one generally accepted
- voronoi diagram — (mathematics, graphics) (Or "Voronoi tessellation", "Voronoi decomposition", "Dirichlet tessellation", After Georgy Feodosevich Voronoy) For a set S of points in a Euclidean space, the partition Vor(S) of the plane into the voronoi polygons associated with the members of S, where each polygon is defined by the set of points nearer to some given point in S than to any other point in S. The Voronoi diagram is the dual of the Delaunay triangulation of S.
- weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
- wedding planner — sb hired to organize a marriage day
- well-integrated — combining or coordinating separate elements so as to provide a harmonious, interrelated whole: an integrated plot; an integrated course of study.
- working drawing — an accurately measured and detailed drawing of a structure, machine, etc., or of any part of one, used as a guide to workers in constructing it.
- working holiday — trip combining vacation with job experience
- x-ray diagnosis — diagnosis by means of an X-ray