15-letter words containing l, a, r, g, e, t
- self-lacerating — to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
- self-regulating — adjusting, ruling, or governing itself without outside interference; operating or functioning without externally imposed controls or regulations: a self-regulating economy; the self-regulating market.
- self-regulation — control by oneself or itself, as in an economy, business organization, etc., especially such control as exercised independently of governmental supervision, laws, or the like.
- self-regulative — used for or capable of controlling or adjusting oneself or itself: a self-regulative device.
- self-regulatory — Self-regulatory systems, organizations, or activities are controlled by the people involved in them, rather than by outside organizations or rules.
- semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
- sergeant at law — a noncommissioned army officer of a rank above that of corporal.
- 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
- sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
- starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
- steel engraving — a method of incising letters, designs, etc., on steel.
- stereologically — by way of stereology or in a stereological manner
- strike the flag — to relinquish command, esp of a ship
- string variable — data on which arithmetical operations will not be performed
- structural gene — cistron.
- summer triangle — a group of three first-magnitude stars (Deneb, Vega, and Altair) visible during the summer in the N skies
- 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.
- talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
- tamarisk gerbil — gerbil (def 2).
- 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.
- 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 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.
- toilet training — child: process of learning to use toilet
- 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