15-letter words containing s, a, n, g
- fantasmagorical — Alternative form of phantasmagorical.
- fetal diagnosis — prenatal determination of genetic or chemical abnormalities in a fetus, esp by amniocentesis
- filling station — service station (def 1).
- first gentleman — (often initial capital letters) the husband of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
- fishing harbour — a place where fishing boats are tied up
- fishing village — a village in which fishing is the main industry
- flight sergeant — a noncommissioned officer in the Royal Air Force junior in rank to a master aircrew
- floating island — a dessert consisting of boiled custard with portions of meringue, whipped cream, or whipped egg whites and sometimes jelly floating upon it or around it.
- floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
- floating supply — the aggregate supply of ready-to-market goods or securities.
- foreign affairs — politics: international relations
- fragmentariness — The quality of being fragmentary.
- fragrance strip — a folded, usually sealed strip on a page or card, impregnated with fragrance that is released when pulled or torn open: The magazine is full of fragrance strips in the advertisements.
- franklin's gull — a black-headed North American gull, Larus pipixcan, feeding chiefly on insects.
- french guianese — an overseas department of France, on the NE coast of South America: formerly a French colony. 35,135 sq. mi. (91,000 sq. km). Capital: Cayenne.
- french-speaking — able to speak French
- fringe festival — an unofficial, often unconventional, arts festival that is associated with another, larger festival
- frisian carving — geometrical incised carving.
- front-page news — a story printed on the first page of a newspaper
- fungistatically — in a fungistatic manner
- gallant soldier — a South American plant, Galinsoga parviflora, widely distributed as a weed, having small daisy-like flowers surrounded by silvery scales: family Asteraceae (composites)
- galloping-ghost — Harold ("Red"; "the Galloping Ghost") 1903–1991, U.S. football player.
- gambier islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean, in French Polynesia. Chief settlement: Rikitéa. Pop: 1097 (2002). Area: 30 sq km (11 sq miles)
- gambling losses — money lost as a result of playing games of chance for money
- gardening tools — tools used for gardening, such as a trowel, spade, rake, etc
- garrison finish — the finish of a race, especially a horse race, in which the winner comes from behind to win at the last moment.
- garrison troops — troops who maintain and guard a military base or fortified place
- gas oil contact — In a reservoir, gas oil contact is the area containing a mix of gas and oil, below which there is mainly oil and above which there is mainly gas.
- gaspe peninsula — a peninsula in SE Canada, in Quebec province, between New Brunswick and the St. Lawrence River.
- gastric balloon — an inflatable rubber bag placed in the stomach to reduce its capacity as an aid to losing weight
- gastroenteritis — inflammation of the stomach and intestines.
- gastronomically — the art or science of good eating.
- general paresis — a syphilitic brain disorder characterized by chronic inflammation and degeneration of cerebral tissue resulting in mental and physical deterioration.
- general science — basic science taught as a school subject
- general servant — a domestic servant who performs general tasks
- general studies — a school subject that includes a variety of skills and topics (such as comprehension, and current affairs, which may complement the study of A-levels in specific subjects)
- general-purpose — useful in many ways; not limited in use or function: a good general-purpose dictionary.
- generalisations — Plural form of generalisation.
- generalizations — Plural form of generalization.
- gentlemanliness — like, befitting, or characteristic of a gentleman.
- german shepherd — one of a breed of large shepherd dogs having a coat ranging in color from gray to brindled, black-and-tan, or black, used especially in police work and as a guide for the blind.
- german-speaking — able to speak German
- gesamtkunstwerk — total art work; an artistic creation, as the music dramas of Richard Wagner, that synthesizes the elements of music, drama, spectacle, dance, etc.
- gesneria family — the plant family Gesneriaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having a basal rosette of usually toothed leaves, tubular two-lipped flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the African violet, gloxinia, and streptocarpus.
- gesta romanorum — a popular collection of tales in Latin with moral applications, compiled in the late 13th century as a manual for preachers
- get one's cards — to be told to leave one's employment
- giant schnauzer — one of a German breed of large working dogs, resembling a larger and more powerful version of the standard schnauzer, having a pepper-and-salt or pure black, wiry coat, bushy eyebrows and beard, and a docked tail set moderately high, originally developed as a cattle herder but now often used in police work.
- giant sunflower — a composite plant, Helianthus giganteus, of eastern North America, growing nearly 12 feet (4 meters) high and having very large yellow flower heads.
- gibson, william — William Gibson
- gigantopithecus — a genus of extinct ape of southern Asia existing during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, known only from very large fossil jaws and teeth and believed to be perhaps the biggest hominoid that ever lived.