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15-letter words containing i, n, l, g, h

  • night-sky light — the faint glow of the night sky, caused by such phenomena as airglow and zodiacal light.
  • nonbiographical — not biographical, not relating to biography or events in a person's life
  • nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
  • north arlington — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • north highlands — a town in central California, near Sacramento.
  • northern lights — aurora borealis.
  • occulting light — a beacon having a light covered briefly at regular intervals.
  • old high german — High German before 1100. Abbreviation: OHG.
  • oligohydramnios — (medicine) A deficit of amniotic fluid in the amniotic sac, causing distinctive deformations of the foetus.
  • organochlorines — Plural form of organochlorine.
  • paedophile ring — a group of people who take part in illegal sexual activity involving children
  • phenomenologies — the study of phenomena.
  • phenomenologist — the study of phenomena.
  • phonogramically — in a phonogramic manner
  • phrenologically — in a manner relating to phrenology
  • physical change — a usually reversible change in the physical properties of a substance, as size or shape: Freezing a liquid is a physical change.
  • planning blight — the harmful effects of uncertainty about likely restrictions on the types and extent of future development in a particular area on the quality of life of its inhabitants and the normal growth of its business and community enterprises
  • queen's english — king's English.
  • radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
  • reading the law — that part of the morning service on Sabbaths, festivals, and Mondays and Thursdays during which a passage is read from the Torah scrolls
  • religion of chi — /ki:/ [Case Western Reserve University] Yet another hackish parody religion (see also Church of the SubGenius, Discordianism). In the mid-70s, the canonical "Introduction to Programming" courses at CWRU were taught in ALGOL, and student exercises were punched on cards and run on a Univac 1108 system using a homebrew operating system named CHI. The religion had no doctrines and but one ritual: whenever the worshipper noted that a digital clock read 11:08, he or she would recite the phrase "It is 11:08; ABS, ALPHABETIC, ARCSIN, ARCCOS, ARCTAN." The last five words were the first five functions in the appropriate chapter of the ALGOL manual; note the special pronunciations /obz/ and /ark'sin/ rather than the more common /ahbz/ and /ark'si:n/. Using an alarm clock to warn of 11:08's arrival was considered harmful.
  • reverse english — Also called reverse side. Billiards. a spinning motion imparted to a cue ball in such a manner as to prevent it from moving in a certain direction. Compare running English.
  • reversing light — Reversing lights are the white lights on the back of a motor vehicle which shine when the vehicle is in reverse gear.
  • rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
  • rolling kitchen — a mobile kitchen used for feeding troops outdoors.
  • rollmop herring — a herring fillet rolled, usually around onion slices, and pickled in spiced vinegar
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • rubbing alcohol — a poisonous solution of about 70 percent isopropyl or denatured ethyl alcohol, usually containing a perfume oil, used chiefly in massaging.
  • running english — the giving of English or spin to the cue ball to enable it to bounce in the direction of a certain angle. Compare reverse English (def 1).
  • school teaching — School teaching is the work done by teachers in a school.
  • scotch highland — any of a breed of small, hardy, usually dun-colored, shaggy-haired beef cattle with long, widespread horns, able to withstand the cold and sparse pasturage of its native western Scottish uplands.
  • sheet lightning — lightning appearing merely as a general illumination over a broad area, usually because the path of the flash is obscured by clouds.
  • shillyshallying — hesitation; vacillation
  • shipping losses — the total loss of a navy's ships in wartime, esp with reference to those sunk during the Second World War
  • shire highlands — an upland area of S Malawi. Average height: 900 m (3000 ft)
  • sign the pledge — to make a vow to abstain from alcoholic drink
  • single-handedly — in a single-handed manner; single-handed.
  • sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
  • 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.
  • spherical angle — an angle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
  • starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
  • street lighting — the provision of lighting at night in public places to illuminate the streets
  • strobe lighting — a high-intensity flashing beam of light produced by rapid electrical discharges in a tube or by a perforated disc rotating in front of an intense light source: used in discotheques, etc
  • sulphur springs — a town in NE Texas.
  • talking machine — Older Use. a phonograph.
  • teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
  • technologically — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • the anglo-irish — the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent
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