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15-letter words containing s, i, g, h, l, e

  • good-fellowship — a pleasant, convivial spirit; comradeship; geniality.
  • heliacal rising — rising of a celestial object at approximately the same time as the rising of the sun
  • hemiglossectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a portion of the tongue.
  • hiberno-english — Also called Anglo-Irish. the English language as spoken in Ireland.
  • high resolution — a great amount of detail visible in a photographic, TV, or video image
  • high-angle shot — a shot taken from a camera positioned above the action
  • high-resolution — having or capable of producing an image characterized by fine detail: high-resolution photography; high-resolution lens.
  • hovering vessel — a vessel in territorial waters apparently collaborating in illicit operations.
  • hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
  • idiot's delight — any variety of the card game solitaire.
  • if nothing else — You can say 'if nothing else' to indicate that what you are mentioning is, in your opinion, the only good thing in a particular situation.
  • ingush republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: part of the Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Republic from 1936 until 1992. Capital: Magas (formerly at Nazran). Pop: 468 900 (2002). Area: 3600 sq km (1390 sq miles)
  • inhomogeneously — lack of homogeneity.
  • insight-fulness — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
  • kinesthesiology — The medical and therapeutic study of the movement of muscles and joints.
  • label switching — (networking)   A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
  • lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)
  • las vegas night — an evening of casino-style gambling, usually sponsored by a charitable, religious, or other fund-raising organization.
  • laser machining — Laser machining is a process in which material is removed from a surface using light from a laser.
  • licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
  • light and shade — If you say that there is light and shade in something such as a performance, you mean you like it because different parts of it are different in tone or mood.
  • light-sensitive — (of a surface) having a photoelectric property, such as the ability to generate a current, change its electrical resistance, etc, when exposed to light
  • lightheadedness — Alternative spelling of light-headedness.
  • lighthouse tube — a vacuum tube with the electrodes arranged in parallel layers closely spaced, giving a relatively high-power output at high frequencies.
  • lightning chess — rapid chess in which either each move has a fixed time allowed (usually 10 seconds) or each player is allotted a fixed time (often 5 minutes) for all his moves
  • longshore drift — beach drift.
  • longsightedness — Farsight; farsightedness; far sight; long sight.
  • loose chippings — pieces of gravel spread on the top of tarmac that fail to stick to it
  • magnesium light — the strongly actinic white light produced when magnesium is burned: used in photography, signaling, pyrotechnics, etc.
  • natural english — Programming in normal, spoken English. [Sammet 1969, p.768].
  • neighbourliness — Standard spelling of neighborliness.
  • neo-hegelianism — Hegelianism as modified by various philosophers of the latter half of the 19th century.
  • neurophysiology — the branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.
  • 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.
  • nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
  • northern lights — aurora borealis.
  • oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
  • organochlorines — Plural form of organochlorine.
  • paleogeophysics — (used with a plural verb) inferred geophysical conditions or processes of designated periods of the geologic past.
  • phenomenologies — the study of phenomena.
  • phenomenologist — the study of phenomena.
  • physical change — a usually reversible change in the physical properties of a substance, as size or shape: Freezing a liquid is a physical change.
  • pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
  • posthole digger — a tool or device for digging a posthole.
  • queen's english — king's English.
  • religious house — a convent or monastery.
  • religious right — US right-wing Christian movement
  • reverse english — Also called reverse side. Billiards. a spinning motion imparted to a cue ball in such a manner as to prevent it from moving in a certain direction. Compare running English.
  • reversing light — Reversing lights are the white lights on the back of a motor vehicle which shine when the vehicle is in reverse gear.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
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