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15-letter words containing r, i, n, g

  • straight-acting — (of a gay person) having the mannerisms of a heterosexual person: used esp by gay people of other gay people
  • straining piece — (in a queen-post roof) a horizontal beam uniting the tops of the two queen posts, and resisting the thrust of the roof.
  • street fighting — violent and illegal fighting between individuals or groups
  • street lighting — the provision of lighting at night in public places to illuminate the streets
  • striking circle — the semicircular area in front of each goal, which an attacking player must have entered before scoring a goal
  • string together — arrange coherently
  • string variable — data on which arithmetical operations will not be performed
  • strobe lighting — a high-intensity flashing beam of light produced by rapid electrical discharges in a tube or by a perforated disc rotating in front of an intense light source: used in discotheques, etc
  • subject-raising — a rule that moves the subject of a complement clause into the clause in which it is embedded, as in the derivation of He is likely to be late from It is likely that he will be late
  • suborganization — an organization within a larger organization
  • sulphur springs — a town in NE Texas.
  • summer triangle — a group of three first-magnitude stars (Deneb, Vega, and Altair) visible during the summer in the N skies
  • supergiant star — Astronomy. an exceptionally luminous star whose diameter is more than 100 times that of the sun, as Betelgeuse or Antares.
  • supporting film — a film that accompanies the main feature film in a film programme
  • supporting role — acting: secondary part
  • surgical needle — a needle for suturing.
  • svedberg (unit) — a unit of time, equal to 10-13 second, used in determining the rate of sedimentation of a macromolecule in an ultracentrifuge
  • swimming trunks — men's swimsuit shorts
  • synectics group — a group of people of varied background that meets to attempt creative solutions of problems through the unrestricted exercise of imagination and the correlation of disparate elements.
  • synergistically — pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling synergy: a synergistic effect.
  • syngeneic graft — a tissue or organ transplanted from one member of a species to another, genetically identical member of the species, as a kidney transplanted from one identical twin to the other.
  • talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
  • target audience — the target audience of a programme is the group of people that the programme-makers are trying to persuade to watch or listen to it
  • terra incognita — an unknown or unexplored land, region, or subject.
  • tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
  • text processing — the handling of alphabetic characters by a computer
  • thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
  • the anglo-irish — the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent
  • the everlasting — God
  • the first thing — even one thing
  • the high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority in a dispute
  • the other thing — an unexpressed alternative
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • the saint leger — an annual horse race run at Doncaster since 1776: one of the classics of the flat-racing season
  • the undersigned — the person or persons who have signed at the foot of a document, statement, etc
  • the working man — working class people collectively
  • 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.
  • thimble-rigging — a sleight-of-hand swindling game in which the operator palms a pellet or pea while appearing to cover it with one of three thimblelike cups, and then, moving the cups about, offers to bet that no one can tell under which cup the pellet or pea lies.
  • thirtysomething — a person in her or his thirties
  • thought reading — mind reading.
  • thraco-phrygian — a hypothetical branch of Indo-European implying a special genetic affinity between the meagerly attested Thracian and Phrygian languages.
  • to pull strings — If you pull strings, you use your influence with other people in order to get something done, often unfairly.
  • toilet training — child: process of learning to use toilet
  • toucan crossing — a place where people who are walking and cyclists can both cross a busy road together. They press a button at the side of the road, which operates traffic lights to stop the traffic
  • tracking device — an electronic security device which allows you to monitor the location of a person or object, esp a vehicle
  • traction engine — a locomotive operating on surfaces other than tracks and pulling heavy loads, as fallen logs.
  • trading account — an account similar to a traditional bank account, holding cash and securities, and administered by an investment dealer
  • trading capital — the total amount of money available for buying assets
  • trading company — a company that is owned by the people who have bought shares in that company
  • trading partner — a person, organization, or country with whom somebody customarily does business
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