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15-letter words containing g, s, l

  • biting housefly — a two-winged fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, having the mouthparts adapted for biting, and commonly a household and stable pest.
  • blagoveshchensk — a city and port in E Russia, in Siberia on the Amur River. Pop: 222 000 (2005 est)
  • blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
  • blood poisoning — Blood poisoning is a serious illness resulting from an infection in your blood.
  • bloodguiltiness — guilty of murder or bloodshed.
  • blue-eyed grass — any of various mainly North American iridaceous marsh plants of the genus Sisyrinchium that have grasslike leaves and small flat starlike blue flowers
  • bluegrass state — Kentucky (used as a nickname).
  • boarding school — A boarding school is a school which some or all of the pupils live in during the school term. Compare day school.
  • boiled dressing — a cooked salad dressing thickened with egg yolks and often containing mustard.
  • bologna sausage — a large smoked sausage made of seasoned mixed meats
  • borough-english — (until 1925) a custom in certain English boroughs whereby the youngest son inherited land to the exclusion of his older brothers
  • branching rules — rules that are used to break down a complex problem into several smaller problems
  • british english — the English language as spoken and written in England and as distinguished esp. from American English
  • brunner's gland — any of the glands in the submucosal layer of the duodenum, secreting an alkaline fluid into the small intestine.
  • bug fix release — (programming)   A release which introduces no new features, but which merely aims to fix bugs in previous releases. All too commonly new bugs are introduced at the same time.
  • building trades — the trades and professions concerned with the creation and finishing of buildings, such as carpenters, plasterers, masons, electricians, etc.
  • calabash nutmeg — a tropical African shrub, Monodora myristica, whose oily aromatic seeds can be used as nutmegs: family Annonaceae
  • carl xvi gustaf — born 1946, king of Sweden from 1973
  • castel gandolfo — a village in central Italy, 15 miles (24 km) SE of Rome: papal palace serving as the summer residence of the pope.
  • categoricalness — The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute.
  • cathedral glass — a semitransparent sheet of rolled glass having a decorative pattern.
  • celestial globe — a spherical model of the celestial sphere showing the relative positions of stars, constellations, etc
  • central casting — a nominal casting agency that delivers stereotypes to films or, figuratively, to real life situations
  • champagne glass — a glass for drinking champagne, either a glass with a wide mouth and a roughly triangular shape or a tall flute
  • channel surfing — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
  • channel-surfing — Channel-surfing is the same as channel-hopping.
  • charles babbage — Charles, 1792–1871, English mathematician: invented the precursor of the modern computer.
  • charles doughty — Charles Montagu [mon-tuh-gyoo] /ˈmɒn təˌgyu/ (Show IPA), 1843–1926, English traveler and writer.
  • chestnut blight — a disease of chestnut trees, caused by a fungus (Endothia parasitica), that has virtually destroyed the American chestnut
  • chinese gelatin — agar (def 1).
  • cholangiectasis — Dilation of the bile ducts.
  • choral speaking — recitation of poetry, dramatic pieces, etc. by a chorus of speakers
  • chronobiologist — A person who is involved in chronobiology.
  • city of glasgow — a council area in W central Scotland. Pop: 593 000 (2010 est). Area: 175 sq km (68 sq miles)
  • classical greek — the form of Greek used in classical literature, especially the literary Attic Greek of the 5th and 4th centuries b.c.
  • classical logic — (logic)   Non-intuitionistic logic.
  • cleavage-planes — the act of cleaving or splitting.
  • cleistogamously — in a cleistogamous manner
  • cluster college — a small residential college affiliated with a university but semi-independent and specializing in one field of study.
  • coaling station — a port at which vessels can take on coal
  • coffee granules — instant coffee in the form of grains
  • college of arms — any of several institutions in the United Kingdom having a royal charter to deal with matters of heraldry, grant armorial bearings, record and trace genealogies, etc
  • college station — a city in E central Texas.
  • college student — a student at a university or college
  • colonial siding — siding composed of boards with parallel faces laid horizontally so that the upper overlaps the one below.
  • colour sergeant — a sergeant who carries the regimental, battalion, or national colours, as in a colour guard
  • come up smiling — to recover cheerfully from misfortune
  • commercialising — Present participle of commercialise.
  • commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
  • conceptualising — Present participle of conceptualise.
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