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15-letter words containing i, r, g, a, t, e

  • single standard — a single set of principles or rules applying to everyone, as a single moral code applying to both men and women, especially in sexual behavior. Compare double standard.
  • single-breasted — (of a coat, jacket, etc.) having a front closure directly in the center with only a narrow overlap secured by a single button or row of buttons.
  • slab plastering — coarse plastering, as between the studs in a half-timbered wall.
  • smoking-related — (of a disease, illness, etc) caused by smoking tobacco, etc
  • 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.
  • social heritage — the entire inherited pattern of cultural activity present in a society.
  • social register — a directory or list of people prominent in the fashionable society of a given area
  • spaghetti strap — a thin, often rounded strip of fabric used in women's clothing, as to form a shoulder strap on a bare-shouldered garment.
  • sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
  • speech training — training designed to improve spoken skills, such as voice projection
  • spermatogenesis — the origin and development of spermatozoa.
  • sporting chance — an even or fair opportunity for a favorable outcome in an enterprise, as winning in a game of chance or in any kind of contest: They gave the less experienced players a sporting chance by handicapping the experts.
  • spring mattress — a mattress containing an arrangement of spiral springs
  • stage direction — an instruction written into the script of a play, indicating stage actions, movements of performers, or production requirements.
  • stamford bridge — a village in N England, east of York: site of a battle (1066) in which King Harold of England defeated his brother Tostig and King Harald Hardrada of Norway, three weeks before the Battle of Hastings
  • standing charge — fixed energy costs
  • standing orders — Military. (formerly) a general order always in force in a command and establishing uniform procedures for it; standard operating procedure.
  • start something — to cause a disturbance or trouble
  • starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
  • states' righter — a person who opposes U.S. federal intervention in affairs of the separate states, supporting this position by a strict interpretation of the Constitution of the U.S.
  • steam reforming — a process in which methane from natural gas is heated, with steam, usually with a catalyst, to produce a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen used in organic synthesis and as a fuel
  • steel engraving — a method of incising letters, designs, etc., on steel.
  • stereologically — by way of stereology or in a stereological manner
  • storage disease — a metabolic disorder characterized by excessive storage in certain cells of normal metabolic intermediates, as fats, iron, and carbohydrates.
  • straight matter — the body text of an article, story, etc., as distinguished from the title, subhead, and other display matter.
  • straight ticket — a ballot on which all votes have been cast for candidates of the same party.
  • straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
  • straining piece — (in a queen-post roof) a horizontal beam uniting the tops of the two queen posts, and resisting the thrust of the roof.
  • strike the flag — to relinquish command, esp of a ship
  • string variable — data on which arithmetical operations will not be performed
  • subject-raising — a rule that moves the subject of a complement clause into the clause in which it is embedded, as in the derivation of He is likely to be late from It is likely that he will be late
  • summer triangle — a group of three first-magnitude stars (Deneb, Vega, and Altair) visible during the summer in the N skies
  • supergiant star — Astronomy. an exceptionally luminous star whose diameter is more than 100 times that of the sun, as Betelgeuse or Antares.
  • surgical strike — a military action designed to destroy a particular target without harming other people or damaging other buildings near it
  • synergistically — pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling synergy: a synergistic effect.
  • syngeneic graft — a tissue or organ transplanted from one member of a species to another, genetically identical member of the species, as a kidney transplanted from one identical twin to the other.
  • talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
  • tamarisk gerbil — gerbil (def 2).
  • target audience — the target audience of a programme is the group of people that the programme-makers are trying to persuade to watch or listen to it
  • target practice — practice at hitting the target in a sport such as archery or shooting
  • telegraphically — of or relating to the telegraph.
  • terra incognita — an unknown or unexplored land, region, or subject.
  • terra sigillata — Arretine ware.
  • tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
  • thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
  • the anglo-irish — the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent
  • the everlasting — God
  • the grim reaper — death
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • the right track — the correct line of investigation, inquiry, etc
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