15-letter words containing n, e, g, r, i, t
- duplex printing — a feature of some printers allowing them automatically to do double-sided printing
- eating disorder — any of various disorders, as anorexia nervosa or bulimia, characterized by severe disturbances in eating habits.
- 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
- egyptian jasper — a type of jasper, generally with zones of colour, found in desert regions of Egypt
- electric wiring — the wires which allow electricity to flow somewhere
- electromagnetic — Of or relating to the interrelation of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
- 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
- emerging market — a financial or consumer market in a newly developing country or former communist country
- endocrinologist — A person who is skilled at, or practices endocrinology.
- engagement ring — ring worn by bride-to-be
- engraving plate — a metal, usually steel, plate on which an image is engraved in order to be reproduced
- 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.
- export earnings — the earnings of a company or country that are generated through the export of goods or services
- extralinguistic — Outside the realm of linguistics.
- extreme ironing — an activity that involves ironing items of laundry while engaged in a sport such as snowboarding or rock climbing
- falling weather — wet weather, as rain or snow.
- feather banding — decorative banding of veneer or inlay having the grain laid diagonally to the grain of the principal surface.
- fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
- fighting french — Free French.
- figurate number — a number having the property that the same number of equally spaced dots can be arranged in the shape of a regular geometrical figure.
- finger alphabet — a series of shapes made by the fingers that indicate letters of an alphabet and can be used in fingerspelling for the deaf
- finger painting — a jellylike paint, used chiefly by children in painting, usually with their fingers.
- finger-pointing — the imputation of blame or responsibility.
- fire-and-forget — used to describe a type of missile that, once fired, is able to guide itself to its target
- first gentleman — (often initial capital letters) the husband of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
- first messenger — a hormone that triggers a biochemical reaction at a site removed from its release.
- flapping router — (networking) A router that transmits routing updates alternately advertising a destination network first via one route, then via a different route. Flapping routers are identified on more advanced protocol analysers such as the Network General (TM) Sniffer.
- flight engineer — a member of an aircraft crew responsible for the mechanical systems, fueling, and servicing of the craft.
- flight sergeant — a noncommissioned officer in the Royal Air Force junior in rank to a master aircrew
- floating charge — an unsecured charge on the assets of an enterprise that allows such assets to be used commercially until the enterprise ceases to operate or the creditor intervenes to demand collateral
- floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
- flowering plant — a plant that produces flowers, fruit, and seeds; angiosperm.
- fluorine dating — a method of determining the relative age of fossil bones found in the same excavation by comparing their fluorine content.
- flying buttress — a segmental arch transmitting an outward and downward thrust to a solid buttress that through its inertia transforms the thrust into a vertical one.
- flying fortress — a heavy bomber, the B-17, with four radial piston engines, widely used over Europe and the Mediterranean by the U.S. Air Force in World War II.
- foreshortenings — Plural form of foreshortening.
- foresightedness — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
- forthcomingness — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
- fortysomethings — Plural form of fortysomething.
- founding father — The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
- fragmentariness — The quality of being fragmentary.
- fragrance strip — a folded, usually sealed strip on a page or card, impregnated with fragrance that is released when pulled or torn open: The magazine is full of fragrance strips in the advertisements.
- fringe festival — an unofficial, often unconventional, arts festival that is associated with another, larger festival
- fringed gentian — a plant of the genus Gentianopsis (or Gentiana), especially G. crinita, having a tubular blue corolla with four fringed petals.
- fringing forest — gallery forest.
- gallant soldier — a South American plant, Galinsoga parviflora, widely distributed as a weed, having small daisy-like flowers surrounded by silvery scales: family Asteraceae (composites)
- gardening tools — tools used for gardening, such as a trowel, spade, rake, etc
- gastroenteritis — inflammation of the stomach and intestines.