15-letter words containing s, e, a, g, u, l
- labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
- 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
- langston hughes — Charles Evans, 1862–1948, U.S. jurist and statesman: chief justice of the U.S. 1930–41.
- language school — A language school is a private school where a foreign language is taught.
- language skills — the ability to use language
- largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
- leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
- legal successor — a person or thing that legally follows, esp a person who succeeds another in an office
- leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
- leukaemogenesis — the development of leukaemia
- linguistic area — a geographical area in which several languages sharing common features are spoken.
- living quarters — accommodation
- long-sufferance — long-suffering.
- lung specialist — doctor specializing in lung conditions
- luster painting — a method of decorating glazed pottery with metallic pigment, originated in Persia, popular from the 9th through the mid-19th centuries.
- magnesium light — the strongly actinic white light produced when magnesium is burned: used in photography, signaling, pyrotechnics, etc.
- mail user agent — (messaging) (MUA) The program that allows the user to compose and read electronic mail messages. The MUA provides the interface between the user and the Message Transfer Agent. Outgoing mail is eventually handed over to an MTA for delivery while the incoming messages are picked up from where the MTA left it (although MUA's running on single-user machines may pick up mail using POP). Popular MUAs for Unix include elm, mush, pine, and RMAIL.
- manual steering — Manual steering is steering in which the driver does all the work, without the help of mechanical power.
- 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.
- measuring glass — a graduated glass container used to measure quantities of liquid
- metalinguistics — the study of the relation between languages and the other cultural systems they refer to.
- musical evening — a social evening with a musical programme
- natural english — Programming in normal, spoken English. [Sammet 1969, p.768].
- natural wastage — Natural wastage is the process of employees leaving their jobs because they want to retire or move to other jobs, rather than because their employer makes them leave.
- negro spiritual — a type of religious song originating among Black slaves in the American South
- nuclear testing — the process of carrying out a test on a nuclear weapon to determine effectiveness, etc
- oblique sailing — the navigation of a vessel on a point of the compass other than one of the cardinal points.
- obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
- plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
- plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
- plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
- plastic surgery — the branch of surgery dealing with the repair or replacement of malformed, injured, or lost organs or tissues of the body, chiefly by the transplant of living tissues.
- pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
- plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
- pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
- public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
- purchase ledger — a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due
- quasi-religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- regulatory risk — a risk to which private companies are subject, arising from the possibility of legislation or regulations that will affect business being adopted by a government
- rigel kentaurus — Alpha Centauri.
- rigil kentaurus — Astronomy. Alpha Centauri.
- rogues' gallery — a collection of portraits of criminals and suspects maintained by the police for purposes of identification.
- rough bluegrass — a grass, Poa trivialis, native to Eurasia and naturalized in North America, where it is used in mixtures for lawns and pasturage.
- sagittal suture — a serrated line on the top of the skull that marks the junction of the two parietal bones
- saguia el hamra — the N part of Western Sahara.
- sauce espagnole — brown sauce.
- school-gate mum — a young family-oriented working mother, considered by political parties as forming a significant part of the electorate
- sebaceous gland — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
- second language — a language learned by a person after his or her native language, especially as a resident of an area where it is in general use.
- self-regulating — adjusting, ruling, or governing itself without outside interference; operating or functioning without externally imposed controls or regulations: a self-regulating economy; the self-regulating market.