15-letter words containing g, u, i, l, t
- self-subsisting — to exist; continue in existence.
- self-suggestion — the act of suggesting.
- self-supporting — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
- self-sustaining — self-supporting.
- single-cut file — a file with teeth in one direction only: used for filing soft material
- sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
- snapping turtle — either of two large, edible, freshwater turtles of the family Chelydridae, of North and Central America, having a large head and powerful hooked jaws, especially the common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina.
- solution mining — removal of a soluble mineral by dissolving it and leaching it out, as in the Frasch process.
- soul-destroying — Activities or situations that are soul-destroying make you depressed, because they are boring or because there is no hope of improvement.
- sound-and-light — combining sound effects or music with unusual lighting displays: to promote a product with a spectacular sound-and-light presentation.
- southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
- southern lights — aurora australis.
- spill your guts — If someone spills their guts, they tell you everything about something secret or private.
- steering column — the shaft that connects the steering wheel to the steering gear assembly of an automotive vehicle.
- stumbling block — an obstacle or hindrance to progress, belief, or understanding.
- subintelligence — below average intelligence
- sulfiting agent — sulfite (def 2).
- summer triangle — a group of three first-magnitude stars (Deneb, Vega, and Altair) visible during the summer in the N skies
- supporting film — a film that accompanies the main feature film in a film programme
- supporting role — acting: secondary part
- surgical spirit — Surgical spirit is a liquid which is used to clean wounds or surgical instruments. It consists mainly of alcohol.
- surgical strike — a military action designed to destroy a particular target without harming other people or damaging other buildings near it
- system building — a method of building in which prefabricated components are used to speed the construction of buildings
- talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
- the magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- to pull strings — If you pull strings, you use your influence with other people in order to get something done, often unfairly.
- training manual — instructional book
- traumatological — relating to traumatology
- treacle pudding — a sponge cake with syrup on top
- troubleshooting — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
- tumbling barrel — a rotating drum for subjecting materials or small manufactured objects, loosely placed inside, to a tumbling action, as to mix materials or to polish objects by friction with one another or with an abrasive.
- tunbridge wells — a city in SW Kent, in SE England: mineral springs; resort.
- turkish delight — a candy made of fruit juice and gelatin, cubed and dusted with sugar.
- ultra-religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- ultracentrifuge — a high-speed centrifuge for subjecting sols or solutions to forces many times that of gravity and producing concentration differences depending on the weight of the micelle or molecule.
- uncategorizable — not able to be categorized or placed into a category
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- understandingly — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
- ungentlemanlike — unlike a gentleman
- ungrammatically — in an ungrammatical manner
- uninterestingly — in a way that is not interesting
- union catalogue — a catalogue listing every publication held at cooperating libraries
- universal stage — a small theodolite mounted on the stage of a polarizing microscope and used in the petrographic analysis of rocks.
- unmanageability — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
- unquestioningly — in manner that accepts something without expressing doubt or uncertainty
- unscintillating — animated; vivacious; effervescent: a scintillating personality.
- upper arlington — a city in central Ohio, near Columbus.
- upsetting lever — the horizontal distance between the center of gravity, acting downward, and the center of buoyancy, acting upward, when they are so placed as to form a couple (upsetting couple) tending to capsize the boat.
- utility program — system software used to perform standard operations, as sorting data or copying data from one file to another, for application programs or other system software.
- 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.