15-letter words containing l, a, r, g, e, t
- palaeontography — the branch of palaeontology concerned with the description of fossils
- parent language — an earlier language from which another is derived.
- pectoral girdle — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the forelimbs.
- personal growth — development as an individual
- photodegradable — (of a substance) capable of being broken down by light.
- photoheliograph — an instrument for photographing the sun, consisting of a camera and a specially adapted telescope.
- phototelegraphy — facsimile (def 2a).
- picture gallery — place where art is exhibited and sold
- pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
- pilgrimage site — a shrine or other sacred place that people travel to as an act of religious devotion
- plant agreement — a collective agreement at plant level within industry
- plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
- plastic surgery — the branch of surgery dealing with the repair or replacement of malformed, injured, or lost organs or tissues of the body, chiefly by the transplant of living tissues.
- plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
- portugal laurel — Prunus lusitanica; type of cherry
- pragmaticalness — the quality of being pragmatical or meddlesome
- pre-legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
- preagricultural — existing or occurring prior to the introduction of agriculture; of or relating to a society existing at this time
- predicate logic — (logic) (Or "predicate calculus") An extension of propositional logic with separate symbols for predicates, subjects, and quantifiers. For example, where propositional logic might assign a single symbol P to the proposition "All men are mortal", predicate logic can define the predicate M(x) which asserts that the subject, x, is mortal and bind x with the universal quantifier ("For all"): All x . M(x) Higher-order predicate logic allows predicates to be the subjects of other predicates.
- quarantine flag — a yellow flag, designating the letter Q in the International Code of Signals: flown by itself to signify that a ship has no disease on board and requests a pratique, or flown with another flag to signify that there is disease on board ship.
- radiator grille — a grille in an automobile or the like for air cooling of the liquid in the cooling system.
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
- 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
- reality testing — the objective evaluation of situations, defective in certain psychoses, that enable one to distinguish between the external and the internal worlds and between the self and the nonself.
- rechargeability — (of a storage battery) capable of being charged repeatedly. Compare cordless (def 2).
- recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- recycling plant — a factory for processing used or abandoned materials
- reentrant angle — in a polygon, an interior angle greater than 180°, with its point turning back into the figure rather than out from it
- refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
- regimental band — a band made up of a military formation varying in size from a battalion to a number of battalions
- regionalization — the process or tendency of dividing a country into administrative regions
- registered mail — prepaid first-class mail that has been recorded at a post office prior to delivery for safeguarding against loss, theft, or damage during transmission.
- regulation time — the standard duration of a sports game, before the addition of any extra time to determine a winner, etc
- regulatory gene — any gene that exercises control over the expression of another gene or genes.
- regulatory risk — a risk to which private companies are subject, arising from the possibility of legislation or regulations that will affect business being adopted by a government
- remonstratingly — in an remonstrating or dissenting manner
- rendering plant — a factory where waste products and livestock carcasses are converted into industrial fats and oils (such as tallow, used to make soap) and other products (such as fertilizer)
- revolving stage — a circular platform divided into segments enabling multiple theater sets to be put in place in advance and in turn rotated into view of the audience.
- rigel kentaurus — Alpha Centauri.
- rigil kentaurus — Astronomy. Alpha Centauri.
- ringtail monkey — a Central and South American monkey, Cebus capucinus, having a prehensile tail and hair on the head resembling a cowl.
- rolling targets — a series of targets which are reviewed periodically so that they always extend for the same period into the future
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- run the gantlet — to be punished by means of the gantlet
- sagittal suture — a serrated line on the top of the skull that marks the junction of the two parietal bones
- scarlet tanager — an American tanager, Piranga olivacea, the male of which is bright red with black wings and tail during the breeding season.
- self-flattering — praise and exaggeration of one's own achievements coupled with a denial or glossing over of one's faults or failings; self-congratulation.
- self-generating — producing from within itself.
- self-generation — production or reproduction of something without the aid of an external agent; spontaneous generation.