15-letter words containing g, r, o, t, e
- to good purpose — with a good result or effect; advantageously
- toilet training — child: process of learning to use toilet
- torre del greco — a city in SW Italy, near Naples.
- traction engine — a locomotive operating on surfaces other than tracks and pulling heavy loads, as fallen logs.
- training course — practical programme of study
- transfer lounge — the place in an airport where you wait for a transfer from one flight to another
- transgressional — of or relating to transgression
- traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
- troubleshooting — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
- turbojet engine — a jet-propulsion engine in which air from the atmosphere is compressed for combustion by a turbine-driven compressor.
- turgor pressure — the pressure exerted on a plant cell wall by water passing into the cell by osmosis
- turquoise green — a light bluish green.
- ultra-religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- uncategorizable — not able to be categorized or placed into a category
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- unrighteousness — not righteous; not upright or virtuous; wicked; sinful; evil: an unrighteous king.
- upper arlington — a city in central Ohio, near Columbus.
- ust-kamenogorsk — a city in E Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
- vegetable ivory — ivory (def 9).
- virtual storage — a system whereby addressable memory is extended beyond main storage through the use of secondary storage managed by system software in such a way that programs can treat all of the designated storage as addressable main storage.
- voltage divider — a resistor or series of resistors connected to a voltage source and used to provide voltages that are fractions of that of the source.
- vortex shedding — the process by which vortices formed continuously by the aerodynamic conditions associated with a solid body in a gas or air stream are carried downstream by the flow in the form of a vortex street
- voting precinct — one of several areas, each containing a polling place, into which a town or city is split for voting purposes
- wager of battle — (in medieval Britain) a pledge to do battle for a cause, esp to decide guilt or innocence by single combat
- waterford glass — fine cut or gilded glass made in Waterford, Ireland, having a slight blue cast due to the presence of cobalt.
- weather through — to pass or go safely through a storm, peril, difficulty, etc.
- weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
- weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
- well-brought-up — If you say that someone, especially a child, is well-brought-up, you mean that they are very polite because they have been taught good manners.
- wintergreen oil — methyl salicylate.
- with good grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- working storage — the amount of memory used to temporarily store results or other data while a program is running.
- wrongful arrest — the act of arresting someone without proper reason
- young pretender — a member of the royal family that ruled in Scotland from 1371 to 1714 and in England from 1603 to 1714.