15-letter words containing s, g, n
- 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.
- oligohydramnios — (medicine) A deficit of amniotic fluid in the amniotic sac, causing distinctive deformations of the foetus.
- oligomerisation — Alternative spelling of oligomerization.
- 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.
- onomasiological — the study of the means of expressing a given concept.
- 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
- opisthognathous — having receding jaws.
- opus anglicanum — fine embroidery, esp of church vestments, produced in England c.1200–c.1350; characterized by the rich materials used, esp silver gilt thread
- 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.
- outstandingness — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
- overbearingness — Quality of being overbearing.
- overemphasizing — Present participle of overemphasize.
- pachymeningitis — inflammation of the dura mater of the brain and spinal cord
- pack one's bags — If you pack your bags, you leave a place where you have been staying or living.
- packing density — a measure of the amount of data that can be held by unit length of a storage medium, such as magnetic tape
- palaeomagnetism — the study of the fossil magnetism in rocks, used to determine the past configurations of the continents and to investigate the past shape and magnitude of the earth's magnetic field
- palaeomagnetist — a student of or expert in palaeomagnetism
- panoramic sight — an artillery sight that can be rotated horizontally in a full circle.
- pantopragmatics — universal intervention in the affairs of others
- paphian goddess — Aphrodite, worshiped in Cyprus as the goddess of sexual love.
- paralinguistics — the study of paralanguage.
- parish magazine — a magazine containing news and articles of interest to the people of a particular parish church or the local area
- parthenogenesis — development of an egg without fertilization.
- passenger coach — a carriage in which passengers sit
- passenger ferry — a ferry that carries passengers
- passenger train — railway train that carries people
- passive smoking — the inhaling of cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoke of others, especially by a nonsmoker in an enclosed area.
- pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
- pematangsiantar — a city on NE Sumatra, in Indonesia.
- performing arts — dance, drama, music
- pergamentaceous — (esp of plants) resembling parchment, whether in texture or composition
- personal growth — development as an individual
- phase-switching — a technique used in radio interferometry in which the signal from one of the two antennae is periodically reversed in phase before being multiplied by the signal from the other antenna
- phenomenologies — the study of phenomena.
- phenomenologist — the study of phenomena.
- phrasemongering — the act of coining memorable phrases
- physical change — a usually reversible change in the physical properties of a substance, as size or shape: Freezing a liquid is a physical change.
- pickling onions — small onions suitable for pickling
- pigeon shooting — the act of hunting and shooting live pigeons
- pilsner glass's — a pale, light lager beer.
- pissing contest — Slang: Vulgar. a contentious argument; confrontation.