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15-letter words containing o, g, a, u, e

  • pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
  • pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
  • quasi-religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
  • quasi-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
  • reconfiguration — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
  • 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
  • repeating group — (database)   Any attribute that can have multiple values associated with a single instance of some entity. For example, a book might have multiple authors. Such a "-to-many" relationship might be represented in an unnormalised relational database as multiple author columns in the book table or a single author(s) column containing a string which was a list of authors. Converting this to "first normal form" is the first step in database normalisation. Each author of the book would appear in a separate row along with the book's primary key. Later nomalisation stages would move the book-author relationship into a separate table to avoid repeating other book attibutes (e.g. title, publisher) for each author.
  • rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
  • robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
  • rogues' gallery — a collection of portraits of criminals and suspects maintained by the police for purposes of identification.
  • rotary debugger — (Commodore) Essential equipment for those late-night or early-morning debugging sessions. Mainly used as sustenance for the hacker. Comes in many decorator colours, such as Sausage, Pepperoni, and Garbage.
  • rough and ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
  • rough bluegrass — a grass, Poa trivialis, native to Eurasia and naturalized in North America, where it is used in mixtures for lawns and pasturage.
  • rough breathing — the symbol (ʿ) used in the writing of Greek to indicate aspiration of the initial vowel or of the ρ (rho) over which it is placed.
  • rough-and-ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
  • routeing domain — (networking)   (US "routing") A set of routers that exchange routeing information within an administrative domain.
  • sauce espagnole — brown sauce.
  • school-gate mum — a young family-oriented working mother, considered by political parties as forming a significant part of the electorate
  • scrounge around — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
  • sebaceous gland — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
  • second language — a language learned by a person after his or her native language, especially as a resident of an area where it is in general use.
  • secondary group — a group of people with whom one's contacts are detached and impersonal.
  • securicor guard — a guard who works for Securicor
  • 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-regulatory — Self-regulatory systems, organizations, or activities are controlled by the people involved in them, rather than by outside organizations or rules.
  • shoulder charge — an instance of a player charging into another so that there is contact between their shoulders (permissible in some circumstances)
  • silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
  • sound deadening — a process or material that reduces the resonance or volume of sound
  • source language — the language in which a text appears that is to be translated into another language. Compare target language (def 1).
  • staggered hours — a system of working in which the employees of an organization do not all arrive and leave at the same time, but have large periods of overlap
  • star of courage — a Canadian award for bravery
  • subject catalog — a catalog having entries listed by subject only.
  • sugarcane borer — the larva of the pyralid moth, Diatraea saccharalis, a serious pest of sugarcane, corn, rice, and sorghums.
  • surgeon general — the chief of medical services in one of the armed forces.
  • tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
  • thought pattern — habitual way of thinking
  • thought reading — mind reading.
  • toughened glass — glass that has been made stronger using chemical or thermal treatments so that it will not break easily
  • training course — practical programme of study
  • transfer lounge — the place in an airport where you wait for a transfer from one flight to another
  • ultra-religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
  • uncategorizable — not able to be categorized or placed into a category
  • unchoreographed — not choreographed; not pre-arranged or pre-prepared; unplanned
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • union catalogue — a catalogue listing every publication held at cooperating libraries
  • unknowledgeable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • upper arlington — a city in central Ohio, near Columbus.
  • ust-kamenogorsk — a city in E Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
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