15-letter words containing l, a, g, e, r, t
- child-battering — the physical abuse of a child by a parent or guardian, as by beating.
- colour sergeant — a sergeant who carries the regimental, battalion, or national colours, as in a colour guard
- commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
- compleat angler — a book on fishing (1653) by Izaak Walton.
- congelifraction — the shattering or splitting of rock or frozen soil due to the action of frost.
- conglomerations — Plural form of conglomeration.
- controller gain — In a control loop, the controller gain is the strength of action a controller will take at a particular point below or above the setpoint.
- counteractingly — In a way that counteracts.
- counterclaiming — Present participle of counterclaim.
- counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
- cradle-to-grave — extending throughout one's life, from birth to death: a cradle-to-grave system of health care.
- credibility gap — A credibility gap is the difference between what a person says or promises and what they actually think or do.
- critical region — that part of a statistical distribution in which the probability of a given hypothesis is less than the chosen significance level, so that the hypothesis would be rejected
- crustaceologist — One who studies crustaceology.
- crystal healing — (in alternative therapy) the use of the supposed power of crystals to affect the human energy field
- cultural cringe — the perception that one's own culture is inferior to that of another group or country
- culture jamming — a form of political and social activism which, by means of fake adverts, hoax news stories, pastiches of company logos and product labels, computer hacking, etc, draws attention to and at the same time subverts the power of the media, governments, and large corporations to control and distort the information that they give to the public in order to promote consumerism, militarism, etc
- cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
- darkling beetle — any of a family (Tenebrionidae) of sluggish, dark beetles that feed on plants at night
- daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
- deagglomeration — Deagglomeration is the process of breaking up agglomerates.
- deculturalizing — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- deglamorization — the act or process of making less glamorous
- dematerializing — Present participle of dematerialize.
- dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
- digital carrier — (hardware, communications) A medium which can carry digital signals; broadly equivalent to the physical layer of the OSI seven layer model of networks. Carriers can be described as baseband or broadband. A baseband carrier can include direct current (DC), whereas broadband carriers are modulated by various methods into frequency bands which do not include DC. Sometimes a modem (modulator/demodulator) or codec (coder/decoder) combines several channels on one transmission path. The combining of channels is called multiplexing, and their separation is called demultiplexing, independent of whether a modem or codec bank is used. Modems can be associated with frequency division multiplexing (FDM) and codecs with time division multiplexing (TDM) though this grouping of concepts is somewhat arbitrary. If the medium of a carrier is copper telephone wire, the circuit may be called T1, T3, etc. as these designations originally described such. T1 carriers used a restored polar line coding scheme which allowed a baseband signal to be transported as broadband and restored to baseband at the receiver. T1 is not used in this sense today, and indeed it is often confused with the DS1 signal carried.
- direct dialling — a service which allows telephone users to make international calls without operator assistance
- direction angle — an angle made by a given vector and a coordinate axis.
- dishearteningly — In a disheartening manner.
- distress signal — a signal used, or designed to be used, by persons in peril, for the purpose of summoning aid, indicating their position, etc., as a radio code sign, aerial flare, flag hoist, or the like. Compare distress call (def 1).
- dongola leather — a leather similar to kid, made from goatskin, sheepskin, or calfskin.
- double integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
- dr. strangelove — a person, especially a military or government official, who advocates initiating nuclear warfare.
- drilling jacket — A drilling jacket is a small steel platform used for drilling wells in shallow and calm water.
- egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
- electric charge — Electric charge is an amount of electricity that is held in or carried by something.
- electric guitar — electrically-amplified guitar
- electromagnetic — Of or relating to the interrelation of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
- electromyograms — Plural form of electromyogram.
- electromyograph — A device used in electromyography to generate electromyograms.
- electronegative — Electrically negative.
- electronic game — any of various small handheld computerized games, usually battery-operated, having a small screen on which graphics are displayed and buttons to operate the game
- electrosurgical — Relating to electrosurgery.
- eleventh-grader — a student in the eleventh grade of high school
- engraving plate — a metal, usually steel, plate on which an image is engraved in order to be reproduced
- erythromelalgia — A rare neurovascular peripheral pain disorder in which blood vessels, usually in the lower extremities or hands, are episodically blocked, then become hyperemic and inflamed.
- estates general — States-General (sense 1)
- estuary english — a variety of standard British English in which the pronunciation reflects various features characteristic of London and the Southeast of England
- everlastingness — The state or quality of being everlasting.
- external degree — a degree gained by a student who studies extramurally