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15-letter words containing g, r, o, s, e

  • island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
  • jewelers' rouge — the brownish-red oxide of iron produced by heating ferrous sulfate: used chiefly as a pigment in paints and theatrical rouge, and as a polishing agent.
  • jog sb's memory — If something or someone jogs your memory, they cause you to suddenly remember something that you had forgotten.
  • jogger's nipple — painful inflammation of the nipple, caused by friction with a garment when running for long distances
  • john j pershing — John Joseph ("Blackjack") 1860–1948, U.S. general: commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
  • keyhole surgery — operation done by laparoscopy
  • labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
  • largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
  • laser ring gyro — a system of aerial navigation in which rotation is sensed by the measuring of the frequency shift of laser light in a closed circuit in a horizontal plane
  • law of averages — a statistical principle formulated by Jakob Bernoulli to show a more or less predictable ratio between the number of random trials of an event and its occurrences.
  • leaves of grass — a book of poems (first edition, 1855; final edition, 1891–92) by Walt Whitman.
  • legacy software — legacy system
  • legal successor — a person or thing that legally follows, esp a person who succeeds another in an office
  • lemon-grass oil — a yellowish to brownish oil distilled from the leaves of certain lemon grasses, especially Cymbopogon citratus, used chiefly in perfumery.
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • let yourself go — If you let yourself go, you relax and behave much more freely than usual.
  • licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
  • lobster newburg — (sometimes lowercase) lobster cooked in a thick seasoned cream sauce made with sherry or brandy.
  • logical address — virtual address
  • long-sufferance — long-suffering.
  • longshore drift — beach drift.
  • look daggers at — to look at with anger or hatred
  • 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.
  • luminous energy — light1 (def 2a).
  • magnesioferrite — (mineralogy) A magnesium iron oxide mineral, a member of the magnetite series of spinels, which forms black metallic octahedral crystals.
  • magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
  • marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
  • margaritiferous — yielding or wearing pearls
  • 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.
  • measuring spoon — a spoon for measuring amounts, as in cooking, usually part of a set of spoons of different sizes.
  • mesometeorology — the study of atmospheric phenomena of relatively small size, as thunderstorms or tornadoes, and of the detailed structure of larger disturbances.
  • messier catalog — a catalog of nonstellar objects compiled by Charles Messier in 1784 and later slightly extended, now known to contain nebulae, galaxies, and star clusters.
  • microaggression — a subtle but offensive comment or action directed at a minority or other nondominant group that is often unintentional or unconsciously reinforces a stereotype: microaggressions such as "I don't see you as black.".
  • microprocessing — an integrated computer circuit that performs all the functions of a CPU.
  • miles gloriosus — a braggart soldier, esp as a stock figure in comedy
  • mis-categorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • misregistration — the act of registering.
  • mogi das cruzes — a city in SE Brazil, E of São Paulo.
  • montgomeryshire — a historic county in Powys, in central Wales.
  • morale-boosting — A morale-boosting action or event makes people feel more confident and cheerful.
  • morning prayers — early-morning act of religious worship
  • morning service — a regular church service in the mornng
  • mouse droppings — 1.   (graphics, operating system, jargon)   Pixels (usually single) that are not properly restored when the mouse pointer moves away from a particular location on the screen, producing the appearance that the mouse pointer has left droppings behind. The major causes for this problem are MS-DOS programs that write to the screen memory corresponding to the mouse pointer's current location without hiding the mouse pointer first, and mouse drivers that do not quite support the graphics mode in use. 2.   (web, jargon)   The client address recorded in a web server's log whenever a client connects to a site. Users may be unaware that their activity is being logged in this way but the potential for misuse of the information is limited.
  • multiprocessing — the simultaneous execution of two or more programs or instruction sequences by separate CPUs under integrated control.
  • narcotics agent — an undercover agent who provides information to the police about illegal drugs, illegal drug trafficking, and users of illegal drugs
  • negro spiritual — a type of religious song originating among Black slaves in the American South
  • neighbor states — the states or countries next to another state or country
  • neighbourliness — Standard spelling of neighborliness.
  • network segment — (networking)   A part of an Ethernet or other network, on which all message traffic is common to all nodes, i.e. it is broadcast from one node on the segment and received by all others. This is normally because the segment is a single continuous conductor, though it may include repeaters(?). Since all nodes share the physical medium, collision detection or some other protocol is required to determine whether a message was transmitted without interference from other nodes. The receiving node inspects the destination address of a packet to tell if it was (one of) the intended recipient(s). Communication between nodes on different segments is via one or more routers.
  • neurolinguistic — pertaining to neurolinguistics
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