15-letter words containing r, i, n, g, l
- courting couple — a pair of lovers
- covering letter — A covering letter is a letter that you send with a parcel or with another letter in order to provide extra information.
- crawling horror — (jargon) Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site. Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity. "Mostly we code new stuff in C, but they pay us to maintain one big Fortran II application from nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling horror." Compare WOMBAT.
- creeping myrtle — any of several Eurasian apocynaceous evergreen plants of the genus Vinca, such as V. minor (lesser periwinkle) and V. major (greater periwinkle), having trailing stems and blue flowers
- cricopharyngeal — of, relating to, or involving the cricoid cartilage and the pharynx.
- criminal damage — intentionally damaging property that belongs to someone else, including public property
- critical region — that part of a statistical distribution in which the probability of a given hypothesis is less than the chosen significance level, so that the hypothesis would be rejected
- crossing patrol — a person who holds up the traffic so that school children can cross the road safely
- crosslinguistic — relating to different languages
- crystal healing — (in alternative therapy) the use of the supposed power of crystals to affect the human energy field
- cultural cringe — the perception that one's own culture is inferior to that of another group or country
- culture jamming — a form of political and social activism which, by means of fake adverts, hoax news stories, pastiches of company logos and product labels, computer hacking, etc, draws attention to and at the same time subverts the power of the media, governments, and large corporations to control and distort the information that they give to the public in order to promote consumerism, militarism, etc
- cum grano salis — with a grain of salt; not too literally
- darkling beetle — any of a family (Tenebrionidae) of sluggish, dark beetles that feed on plants at night
- darning needles — a long needle with a long eye used in darning.
- daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
- deagglomeration — Deagglomeration is the process of breaking up agglomerates.
- decriminalising — Present participle of decriminalise.
- decriminalizing — (rare) present participle of decriminalize To change the laws so something is no longer a crime.
- deculturalizing — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- deglamorization — the act or process of making less glamorous
- dematerializing — Present participle of dematerialize.
- depersonalizing — Present participle of depersonalize.
- diagonal matrix — a square matrix in which all the entries except those along the diagonal from upper left to lower right are zero.
- diffrangibility — the power or capability of being diffracted
- direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
- direct dialling — a service which allows telephone users to make international calls without operator assistance
- direct lighting — lighting in which most of the light is cast directly from the fixture or source to the illumined area.
- direction angle — an angle made by a given vector and a coordinate axis.
- disarticulating — Present participle of disarticulate.
- disconcertingly — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
- disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
- dishearteningly — In a disheartening manner.
- distress signal — a signal used, or designed to be used, by persons in peril, for the purpose of summoning aid, indicating their position, etc., as a radio code sign, aerial flare, flag hoist, or the like. Compare distress call (def 1).
- double integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
- double printing — the exposure of the same positive photographic emulsion to two or more negatives, resulting in the superimposition of multiple images after development
- drilling jacket — A drilling jacket is a small steel platform used for drilling wells in shallow and calm water.
- driving licence — A driving licence is a card showing that you are qualified to drive because you have passed a driving test.
- driving license — A driving license is the same as a driver's license.
- dropping bottle — a bottle with correlated lengthwise grooves in the neck and in the stopper, permitting a controlled flow of the liquid contents in the form of drops.
- drying-up cloth — a tea towel
- dryland farming — a mode of farming, practiced in regions of slight or insufficient rainfall, that relies mainly on tillage methods rendering the soil more receptive of moisture and on the selection of suitable crops.
- duplex printing — a feature of some printers allowing them automatically to do double-sided printing
- 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
- 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
- endocrine gland — anatomy: hormone-secreting gland
- endocrinologist — A person who is skilled at, or practices endocrinology.