15-letter words containing s, i, e, g
- neighbourliness — Standard spelling of neighborliness.
- neo-hegelianism — Hegelianism as modified by various philosophers of the latter half of the 19th century.
- neurolinguistic — pertaining to neurolinguistics
- neurophysiology — the branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.
- nigger minstrel — a performer who puts on blackface (exaggerated negro-like make-up) usually to perform songs associated with the American South
- night blindness — a condition of the eyes in which vision is normal in daylight but abnormally poor at night or in a dim light; nyctalopia.
- nitriding steel — any steel suitable for casehardening by nitriding.
- nitrogen oxides — Nitrogen oxides are compounds of nitrogen and oxygen produced during combustion.
- noblesse oblige — the moral obligation of those of high birth, powerful social position, etc., to act with honor, kindliness, generosity, etc.
- noise generator — a device used in synthesizers to produce high-frequency sound effects
- non-consignment — the act of consigning.
- non-egotistical — pertaining to or characterized by egotism.
- non-legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
- non-sensitizing — to render sensitive.
- nonintersecting — Not intersecting.
- nonself-antigen — any of the antigens present in an individual that originate outside the body (contrasted with self-antigen).
- nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
- northern lights — aurora borealis.
- 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.
- nursing studies — the study of nursing
- 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.
- offset printing — offset (def 6).
- 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.
- opencast mining — mining by excavating from the surface
- opening batsman — a player who bats the first ball in cricket
- optical storage — optical disk drive
- 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.
- outstandingness — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
- over-aggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
- overbearingness — Quality of being overbearing.
- overemphasizing — Present participle of overemphasize.
- pachymeningitis — inflammation of the dura mater of the brain and spinal cord
- packing density — a measure of the amount of data that can be held by unit length of a storage medium, such as magnetic tape
- paget's disease — Pathology. a chronic disease characterized by episodic accelerated bone resorption and growth of abnormal replacement bone, causing bone pain, deformation, fractures, and osteosarcoma; osteitis deformans.
- 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
- paleogeophysics — (used with a plural verb) inferred geophysical conditions or processes of designated periods of the geologic past.
- paphian goddess — Aphrodite, worshiped in Cyprus as the goddess of sexual love.
- parish magazine — a magazine containing news and articles of interest to the people of a particular parish church or the local area