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15-letter words containing s, a, g, i, n

  • plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • polling station — voting venue
  • port washington — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
  • pragmaticalness — the quality of being pragmatical or meddlesome
  • pre-advertising — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
  • preregistration — early registration, in advance of event or general registration
  • primary sealing — Primary sealing is devices used for sealing tanks, to reduce emissions, often made of foam.
  • process heating — Process heating is heating, usually from steam, which is used to increase the temperature in a process vessel.
  • procrastinating — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • prognostication — the act of prognosticating.
  • prognosticators — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
  • pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
  • psion organiser — (computer)   A popular pocket computer from the UK Company Psion plc. The organiser uses a graphical user interface with windows, menus, icons and dialog boxes. There have been several versions so far: Series3a, Series3, HC, MC, OrgII.
  • psychodiagnosis — a psychological examination using psychodiagnostic techniques.
  • public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
  • pyramid selling — Pyramid selling is a method of selling in which one person buys a supply of a particular product direct from the manufacturer and then sells it to a number of other people at an increased price. These people sell it on to others in a similar way, but eventually the final buyers are only able to sell the product for less than they paid for it.
  • quadragenarians — Plural form of quadragenarian.
  • quasi-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
  • queen's highway — king's highway.
  • random sampling — a method of selecting a sample (random sample) from a statistical population in such a way that every possible sample that could be selected has a predetermined probability of being selected.
  • range paralysis — Marek's disease.
  • reading glasses — spectacles
  • reality testing — the objective evaluation of situations, defective in certain psychoses, that enable one to distinguish between the external and the internal worlds and between the self and the nonself.
  • registered name — the official or trademark name of something such as a product or company
  • relapsing fever — one of a group of fevers characterized by relapses, occurring in many tropical countries, and caused by several species of spirochetes transmitted by several species of lice and ticks.
  • remonstratingly — in an remonstrating or dissenting manner
  • revenue sharing — the system of disbursing part of federal tax revenues to state and local governments for their use.
  • reversing falls — a series of rapids in the Saint John River, New Brunswick, Canada, the flow of which regularly reverses itself owing to the force an incoming tide
  • reviewing stand — A reviewing stand is a special raised platform from which military and political leaders watch military parades.
  • revolving stage — a circular platform divided into segments enabling multiple theater sets to be put in place in advance and in turn rotated into view of the audience.
  • rhesus negative — relating to blood not containing Rhesus antigen D
  • rigel kentaurus — Alpha Centauri.
  • right ascension — the arc of the celestial equator measured eastward from the vernal equinox to the foot of the great circle passing through the celestial poles and a given point on the celestial sphere, expressed in degrees or hours.
  • rigil kentaurus — Astronomy. Alpha Centauri.
  • risk management — the technique or profession of assessing, minimizing, and preventing accidental loss to a business, as through the use of insurance, safety measures, etc.
  • roaring forties — the stormy oceanic areas between 40° and 50° south latitude
  • rogation sunday — the fifth Sunday after Easter; it sees the start of the supplications that are continued during the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
  • roger bannister — Sir Roger (Gilbert) born 1929, English track and field athlete: first to run a mile in less than four minutes.
  • rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • rolling targets — a series of targets which are reviewed periodically so that they always extend for the same period into the future
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • royal engineers — a branch of the British army that undertakes the building of fortifications, mines, bridges, and other engineering works
  • running repairs — repairs, as to a machine or vehicle, that are minor and can be made with little or no interruption in the use of the item
  • saigon cinnamon — the aromatic inner bark of any of several East Indian trees belonging to the genus Cinnamonum, of the laurel family, especially the bark of C. zeylanicum (Ceylon cinnamon) used as a spice, or that of C. loureirii (Saigon cinnamon) used in medicine as a cordial and carminative.
  • saint augustine — Saint, a.d. 354–430, one of the Latin fathers in the early Christian Church; author; bishop of Hippo in N Africa.
  • salivary glands — any of several glands, as the submaxillary glands, that secrete saliva.
  • santa gertrudis — one of an American breed of beef cattle, developed from Shorthorn and Brahman stock for endurance to torrid temperatures.
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