15-letter words containing s, e, g, a
- misregistration — the act of registering.
- mitigate a risk — If something or someone mitigates a risk, they make the effects of a loss or risk less unpleasant, harmful, or serious.
- mogi das cruzes — a city in SE Brazil, E of São Paulo.
- morale-boosting — A morale-boosting action or event makes people feel more confident and cheerful.
- morning prayers — early-morning act of religious worship
- moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
- mucosanguineous — containing or made up of blood and mucus
- musical evening — a social evening with a musical programme
- napier-hastings — a seaport on E North Island, in New Zealand.
- narcotics agent — an undercover agent who provides information to the police about illegal drugs, illegal drug trafficking, and users of illegal drugs
- 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.
- nearsightedness — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
- negro spiritual — a type of religious song originating among Black slaves in the American South
- neighbor states — the states or countries next to another state or country
- neo-hegelianism — Hegelianism as modified by various philosophers of the latter half of the 19th century.
- no great shakes — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
- noise generator — a device used in synthesizers to produce high-frequency sound effects
- non-egotistical — pertaining to or characterized by egotism.
- non-legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
- non-salvageable — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- nonself-antigen — any of the antigens present in an individual that originate outside the body (contrasted with self-antigen).
- nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
- north las vegas — a city in S Nevada.
- not give a shit — to not care at all
- nottinghamshire — a county in central England. 854 sq. mi. (2210 sq. km).
- nuclear testing — the process of carrying out a test on a nuclear weapon to determine effectiveness, etc
- nuisance ground — a garbage dump.
- 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.
- off one's guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- old age pension — An old age pension is a regular amount of money that people receive from the government when they have retired from work.
- oligomerisation — Alternative spelling of oligomerization.
- oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
- on a shoestring — If you do something or make something on a shoestring, you do it using very little money.
- one-night stand — a single performance in one locale, as by a touring theatrical company, before moving on to the next engagement.
- onward progress — progress that advances or improves (a situation, etc)
- opencast mining — mining by excavating from the surface
- opening batsman — a player who bats the first ball in cricket
- optical storage — optical disk drive
- orangeman's day — the 12th of July, celebrated by Protestants in Northern Ireland to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne (1690)
- orangemen's day — July 12, an annual celebration in Northern Ireland and certain cities having a large Irish section, especially Liverpool, to mark both the victory of William III over James II at the Battle of the Boyne, July 1, 1690, and the Battle of Augbrim, July 12, 1690.
- organic disease — a disease in which there is a structural alteration (opposed to functional disease).
- organized chaos — a complex situation or process that appears chaotic while having enough order to achieve progress or goals
- organochlorines — Plural form of organochlorine.
- organomagnesium — pertaining to or noting an organic compound, especially an organic halide, containing magnesium linked to carbon.
- organophosphate — Biochemistry. any of a variety of organic compounds that contain phosphorus and often have intense neurotoxic activity: originally developed as nerve gases, now widely used as insecticides and fire retardants.
- ortega saavedra — (José) Daniel [haw-se dah-nyel] /hɔˈsɛ dɑˈnyɛl/ (Show IPA), born 1945, Nicaraguan political leader: president 1985–90.
- ortega y gasset — José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1883–1955, Spanish philosopher, journalist, and critic.
- outstandingness — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.