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15-letter words containing l, a, e, g

  • surgical needle — a needle for suturing.
  • surgical strike — a military action designed to destroy a particular target without harming other people or damaging other buildings near it
  • swallow-tanager — a tropical American bird, Tersina viridis, related to the true tanagers but with longer, swallowlike wings.
  • synergistically — pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling synergy: a synergistic effect.
  • syntax language — a metalanguage used to refer to the grammatical or other formal features of an object language.
  • take lying down — to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline. Antonyms: stand.
  • take the pledge — a solemn promise or agreement to do or refrain from doing something: a pledge of aid; a pledge not to wage war.
  • take the plunge — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
  • talking machine — Older Use. a phonograph.
  • talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
  • tamarisk gerbil — gerbil (def 2).
  • tangible assets — valuable items: cash, property, etc.
  • target language — the language into which a text is to be translated from another language. Compare source language (def 1).
  • tattletale gray — a dirty or grayish white.
  • teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
  • technologically — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • telegraph plant — a tick trefoil, Desmodium motorium, of the legume family, native to tropical Asia, noted for the spontaneous, jerking, signallike motions of its leaflets.
  • telegraphically — of or relating to the telegraph.
  • telephotography — photography of distant objects, using a telephoto lens.
  • terra sigillata — Arretine ware.
  • thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
  • the anglo-irish — the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent
  • the everlasting — God
  • the legal limit — the maximum amount of something that is allowed by law, especially the amount of alcohol allowed before driving
  • the living dead — dead people that have been brought back to life by a supernatural force
  • the magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
  • the saint leger — an annual horse race run at Doncaster since 1776: one of the classics of the flat-racing season
  • thermal imaging — Thermal imaging is the use of special equipment that can detect the heat produced by people or things and use it to produce images of them.
  • tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
  • tintagel castle — a ruined castle on a promontory in SW England on the W coast of Cornwall, which is the legendary birthplace of King Arthur
  • to fly the flag — If you fly the flag, you show that you are proud of your country, or that you support a particular cause, especially when you are in a foreign country or when few other people do.
  • to get ahold of — to manage to find, contact, or obtain someone or something
  • toilet training — child: process of learning to use toilet
  • toughened glass — glass that has been made stronger using chemical or thermal treatments so that it will not break easily
  • training wheels — a pair of small wheels attached one on each side of the rear wheel of a bicycle for stability while one is learning to ride.
  • transfer lounge — the place in an airport where you wait for a transfer from one flight to another
  • transgressional — of or relating to transgression
  • traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
  • travelling wave — a wave carrying energy away from its source
  • treacle pudding — a sponge cake with syrup on top
  • trickle charger — a small mains-operated battery charger, esp one that delivers less than 5 amperes and is used by car owners
  • triple integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of three variables and which requires three applications of the integration process to evaluate.
  • truth-value gap — the possibility in certain semantic systems of a statement being neither true nor false while also not being determinately of any third truth-value, as all my children are asleep uttered by a childless person
  • tubal pregnancy — pregnancy that grows in fallopian tube
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • ulysses s grant — Cary (Archibald Leach) 1904–86, U.S. actor, born in England.
  • uncategorizable — not able to be categorized or placed into a category
  • unchallengeably — in a way that cannot be challenged; in an unchallengeable manner
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