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15-letter words containing o, g, l, e, d

  • gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
  • general holiday — a public holiday
  • get a handle on — that which may be held, seized, grasped, or taken advantage of in effecting a purpose: The clue was a handle for solving the mystery.
  • get hold of sth — If you get hold of an object or information, you obtain it, usually after some difficulty.
  • gila woodpecker — a dull-colored woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • glen canyon dam — Adam Clayton, Jr. 1908–72, U.S. clergyman, politician, and civil-rights leader: congressman 1945–67, 1969–71.
  • glycogenic acid — gluconic acid.
  • go into details — If someone does not go into details about a subject, or does not go into the detail, they mention it without explaining it fully or properly.
  • go like a dream — to move, develop, or work very well
  • go to the devil — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
  • goal difference — the number of goals scored by a team minus the number of goals it has conceded
  • gödel's theorem — either of two theorems published by the mathematician Kurt Gödel in 1931 that prove all mathematical systems are incomplete in that their truth or consistency can only be proved using a system of a higher order
  • gold prospector — a person who searches for the natural occurrence of gold
  • golden boy/girl — If you refer to a man as a golden boy or a woman as a golden girl, you mean that they are especially popular and successful.
  • golden eardrops — a Californian plant, Dicentra chrysantha, of the fumitory family, having bluish-green foliage and branched clusters of yellow flowers.
  • golden nematode — a yellowish nematode, Heterodera rostochiensis, that is parasitic on the roots of potatoes, tomatoes, and other solanaceous plants.
  • golden pheasant — an Asiatic pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus, having brilliant scarlet, orange, gold, green, and black plumage.
  • golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • golden triangle — (sometimes lowercase) an area of Southeast Asia encompassing parts of Burma, Laos, and Thailand, significant as a major source of opium and heroin.
  • goldenrain tree — a small, deciduous Asian tree (Koelreuteria paniculata) of the soapberry family having small yellow flowers and papery fruit pods
  • goldilocks zone — a zone around a star having temperatures and other conditions that can support life on planets: Mars is thought to lie on the outer edge of the sun's Goldilocks zone.
  • good-fellowship — a pleasant, convivial spirit; comradeship; geniality.
  • gorlin syndrome — a rare congenital disorder in which cancer destroys the facial skin and causes blindness; skeletal anomalies can also occur
  • grade inflation — the awarding of higher grades than students deserve either to maintain a school's academic reputation or as a result of diminished teacher expectations.
  • graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
  • grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • grimes (golden) — a yellow autumn eating apple
  • gros de londres — a cross-ribbed, silk dress fabric with ribs alternating in color or between coarse and fine yarn.
  • ground squirrel — any of several terrestrial rodents of the squirrel family, as of the genus Citellus and chipmunks of the genus Tamias. circ;circ;
  • hard-boiled egg — egg boiled until the yolk is set
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
  • holiday cottage — a cottage used for accommodation for a family, couple, etc, on holiday
  • holiday feeling — the positive feeling people experience while on holiday and during holiday periods such as the Christmas period
  • holiday village — a park with villas where holidaymakers stay and which has a central area with a shop, entertainment, etc
  • horned oak gall — a small, round tumor, formed around wasp eggs laid in the branches of a pin oak tree, that disrupts the flow of nutrients to the tree, with consequent defoliation and death.
  • household goods — kitchenware and other utensils for use in the home
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
  • ideographically — an ideogram.
  • idiot's delight — any variety of the card game solitaire.
  • integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
  • island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
  • judge of appeal — a judge who sits in a Court of Appeal
  • knowledge level — (artificial intelligence)   A level of description of the knowledge of an agent that is independent of the agent's internal symbol-level representation. Knowledge can be attributed to agents by observing their actions. An agent "knows" something if it acts as if it had the information and is acting rationally to achieve its goals. The "actions" of agents, including knowledge base servers and knowledge-based systems, can be seen through a "tell and ask" functional interface, where a client interacts with an agent by making logical assertions (tell), and posing queries (ask).
  • knowledge-based — characterized by the dominance of information services as an area of growth
  • langue de boeuf — ox-tongue partisan.
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
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