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15-letter words containing i, d, o, g, r, a

  • hearing ear dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
  • hearing-ear dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
  • herod agrippa i — 10 bc–44 ad, king of Judaea (41–44), grandson of Herod (the Great). A friend of Caligula and Claudius, he imprisoned Saint Peter and executed Saint James
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • hydrobiological — of or relating to hydrobiology
  • hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • ideographically — an ideogram.
  • indicator light — a device for indicating that a motor vehicle is about to turn left or right; blinker
  • integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
  • interdigitation — An interlinking that resembles the fingers of two hands being locked together.
  • interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
  • ipod generation — members of the generation of adults born after 1970, who are less financially secure than their parents, due to student debt, high house prices, and job insecurity
  • island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
  • kangaroo island — an island in the Indian Ocean, off South Australia. Area: 4350 sq km (1680 sq miles)
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • lift-drag ratio — the ratio of the lift to the drag of an airfoil.
  • linear ordering — an ordering that is reflexive, antisymmetric, transitive, and connected, as less than or equal to on the involved integers
  • loading program — a series of instructions entered automatically in a program that starts the processing.
  • logical address — virtual address
  • lord-in-waiting — a nobleman in attendance on a British monarch or the Prince of Wales.
  • lowland gorilla — the eastern lowland gorilla or western lowland gorilla. See under gorilla.
  • managing editor — an editor assigned to the supervision and coordination of certain editorial activities of a newspaper, magazine, book publishing company, or the like. Abbreviation: M.E., m.e.
  • mandarin orange — mandarin (def 4).
  • marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
  • marigold window — wheel window.
  • microradiograph — an enlarged version of an image obtained by a form of radiography that reveals minute details
  • mid-ocean ridge — any of several seismically active submarine mountain ranges that extend through the Atlantic, Indian, and South Pacific oceans: each is hypothesized to be the locus of seafloor spreading.
  • mineral kingdom — minerals collectively.
  • mis-categorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • miscoordinating — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
  • mogi das cruzes — a city in SE Brazil, E of São Paulo.
  • mollier diagram — a graph showing the enthalpy of a substance as a function of its entropy when some physical property of the substance, as temperature or pressure, is kept at a specified constant value.
  • non-disparaging — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
  • nondegenerative — tending to degenerate.
  • north highlands — a town in central California, near Sacramento.
  • nuisance ground — a garbage dump.
  • old high german — High German before 1100. Abbreviation: OHG.
  • oligodendroglia — Oligodendrocytes collectively.
  • oligohydramnios — (medicine) A deficit of amniotic fluid in the amniotic sac, causing distinctive deformations of the foetus.
  • oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
  • orange chromide — an Asian cichlid fish, Etropus maculatus, with a brownish-orange spotted body
  • orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
  • ordinary degree — a university degree without honours
  • ordinary rating — a rank in the Royal Navy comparable to that of a private in the army
  • organic disease — a disease in which there is a structural alteration (opposed to functional disease).
  • organized chaos — a complex situation or process that appears chaotic while having enough order to achieve progress or goals
  • organized crime — illegal activities co-ordinated by groups
  • organized labor — all workers who are organized in labor unions.
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