15-letter words containing s, e, o, d
- 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)
- garboard strake — the first strake on each side of a keel.
- gardening tools — tools used for gardening, such as a trowel, spade, rake, etc
- gatefold sleeve — a record sleeve that opens out like a book
- gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
- geodemographics — the study and grouping of the people in a geographical area according to socioeconomic criteria, esp for market research
- geodetic survey — a land area survey in which the curvature of the surface of the earth is taken into account.
- get hold of sth — If you get hold of an object or information, you obtain it, usually after some difficulty.
- get one's cards — to be told to leave one's employment
- get sb into bed — To get someone into bed means to persuade them to have sex with you.
- go into details — If someone does not go into details about a subject, or does not go into the detail, they mention it without explaining it fully or properly.
- go the distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- gödel's theorem — either of two theorems published by the mathematician Kurt Gödel in 1931 that prove all mathematical systems are incomplete in that their truth or consistency can only be proved using a system of a higher order
- gold prospector — a person who searches for the natural occurrence of gold
- golden eardrops — a Californian plant, Dicentra chrysantha, of the fumitory family, having bluish-green foliage and branched clusters of yellow flowers.
- golden pheasant — an Asiatic pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus, having brilliant scarlet, orange, gold, green, and black plumage.
- golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
- golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
- goldilocks zone — a zone around a star having temperatures and other conditions that can support life on planets: Mars is thought to lie on the outer edge of the sun's Goldilocks zone.
- good queen bess — Elizabeth I
- good-fellowship — a pleasant, convivial spirit; comradeship; geniality.
- goodheartedness — The quality of being goodhearted.
- goodness of fit — the extent to which observed sample values of a variable approximate to values derived from a theoretical density, often measured by a chi-square test
- goody two shoes — a goody-goody.
- goody two-shoes — goody-goody
- goody-two-shoes — a goody-goody.
- gorlin syndrome — a rare congenital disorder in which cancer destroys the facial skin and causes blindness; skeletal anomalies can also occur
- graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
- grimes (golden) — a yellow autumn eating apple
- gros de londres — a cross-ribbed, silk dress fabric with ribs alternating in color or between coarse and fine yarn.
- gross indecency — sexual offence
- ground meristem — an area of primary meristematic tissue, emerging from and immediately behind the apical meristem, that develops into the pith and the cortex.
- ground observer — a person stationed in a position on the ground to watch, follow, and report on flights of aircraft, especially of enemy aircraft.
- ground squirrel — any of several terrestrial rodents of the squirrel family, as of the genus Citellus and chipmunks of the genus Tamias. circ;circ;
- groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
- half-understood — partially understood
- hamamelidaceous — belonging to the Hamamelidaceae, the witch hazel family of plants.
- hang one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- hardhead sponge — any of several commercial sponges, as Spongia officinalis dura, of the West Indies and Central America, having a harsh, fibrous, resilient skeleton.
- hare and hounds — an outdoor game in which certain players, the hares, start off in advance on a long run, scattering small pieces of paper, called the scent, with the other players, the hounds, following the trail so marked in an effort to catch the hares before they reach a designated point.
- hausdorff space — a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.
- have it so good — to have so many benefits, esp material benefits
- have words with — to argue angrily with
- hazardous waste — any industrial by-product, especially from the manufacture of chemicals, that is destructive to the environment or dangerous to the health of people or animals: Hazardous wastes often contaminate ground water.
- head over heels — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- heads will roll — If you say that heads will roll as a result of something bad that has happened, you mean that people will be punished for it, especially by losing their jobs.
- hedge your bets — play it safe, lessen a risk
- hedgehog cactus — any of various rounded, usually spiny cacti of the genus Echinocereus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having bell-shaped flowers that close at night.
- hedonic damages — compensation based on what the victim of a crime might have earned in the future
- heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.