15-letter words containing r, p, g
- ingush republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: part of the Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Republic from 1936 until 1992. Capital: Magas (formerly at Nazran). Pop: 468 900 (2002). Area: 3600 sq km (1390 sq miles)
- interior-sprung — (esp of a mattress) containing springs
- interiorscaping — The design, installation, and maintenance of interiorscapes.
- interphalangeal — Between phalanges, as with an interphalangeal joint.
- interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
- ipod generation — members of the generation of adults born after 1970, who are less financially secure than their parents, due to student debt, high house prices, and job insecurity
- isopropyl group — the univalent group C 3 H 7 , an isomer of the propyl group.
- japanese spurge — a low Japanese plant, Pachysandra terminalis, having evergreen leaves and spikes of white flowers, grown as a ground cover.
- jobbing printer — a person who prints mainly commercial and display work rather than books or newspapers
- jogger's nipple — painful inflammation of the nipple, caused by friction with a garment when running for long distances
- john j pershing — John Joseph ("Blackjack") 1860–1948, U.S. general: commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
- knapping hammer — a hammer used for breaking and shaping stones
- langres plateau — a calcareous plateau of E France north of Dijon between the Seine and the Saône, reaching over 580 m (1900 ft): forms a watershed between rivers flowing to the Mediterranean and to the English Channel
- leapfrog attack — Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).
- leaving present — a present given to a person when they leave a job, place etc
- lepidopterology — the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.
- leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
- lexicographical — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- linear topology — (theory) A linear topology on a left A-module M is a topology on M that is invariant under translations and admits a fundamental system of neighborhood of 0 that consists of submodules of M. If there is such a topology, M is said to be linearly topologized. If A is given a discrete topology, then M becomes a topological A-module with respect to a linear topology.
- loading program — a series of instructions entered automatically in a program that starts the processing.
- lodgepole creek — a river in SE Wyoming, SW Nebraska, and NE Colorado, flowing E to the South Platte River. 212 miles (341 km) long.
- long parliament — the Parliament that assembled November 3, 1640, was expelled by Cromwell in 1653, reconvened in 1659, and was dissolved in 1660.
- low archipelago — a group of French islands in the S Pacific. 332 sq. mi. (860 sq. km).
- lump uncurrying — Chin's generalisation of uncurrying. A curried function taking several tuples as arguments can be transformed to take a single tuple containing all the components of the original tuples.
- lung transplant — a medical operation in which the lungs are taken out of someone who has died and are placed into another person's body
- luster painting — a method of decorating glazed pottery with metallic pigment, originated in Persia, popular from the 9th through the mid-19th centuries.
- lymphogranuloma — any of certain diseases characterized by granulomatous lesions of lymph nodes.
- macrophotograph — a photograph taken at very close range
- macrosporangium — megasporangium.
- magnetic stripe — magnetic strip.
- magnetoreceptor — The part of an organism responsible for magnetoreception.
- malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
- markup language — a set of standards, as HTML or SGML, used to create an appropriate markup scheme for an electronic document, as to indicate its structure or format.
- massage parlour — A massage parlour is a place where people go and pay for a massage. Some places that are called massage parlours are in fact places where people pay to have sex.
- master-planning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- measuring spoon — a spoon for measuring amounts, as in cooking, usually part of a set of spoons of different sizes.
- megacorporation — a giant company formed from two or more large companies or a number of companies of various sizes.
- methylene group — the bivalent organic group >CH 2 , derived from methane.
- metric topology — a topology for a space in which open sets are defined in terms of a given metric.
- microangiopathy — any disease of the small blood vessels.
- micromorphology — the study of the form and structure of organisms at a microscopic level
- micropegmatitic — relating to, or designating, a microscopic pegmatitic structure
- microphotograph — microfilm (def 1).
- microprocessing — an integrated computer circuit that performs all the functions of a CPU.
- micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
- microradiograph — an enlarged version of an image obtained by a form of radiography that reveals minute details
- microsporangium — a sporangium containing microspores.
- microtopography — microrelief.
- midgard serpent — a serpent, the child of Loki and Angerboda, who lies wrapped around the world, tail in mouth, and is destined to kill and to be killed by Thor at Ragnarok; Jormungand.
- misapprehending — Present participle of misapprehend.