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

  • magnesium light — the strongly actinic white light produced when magnesium is burned: used in photography, signaling, pyrotechnics, etc.
  • mail user agent — (messaging)   (MUA) The program that allows the user to compose and read electronic mail messages. The MUA provides the interface between the user and the Message Transfer Agent. Outgoing mail is eventually handed over to an MTA for delivery while the incoming messages are picked up from where the MTA left it (although MUA's running on single-user machines may pick up mail using POP). Popular MUAs for Unix include elm, mush, pine, and RMAIL.
  • mailing address — postal or delivery address
  • manual steering — Manual steering is steering in which the driver does all the work, without the help of mechanical power.
  • master-planning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
  • meaninglessness — without meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeless; insignificant: a meaningless reply; a meaningless existence.
  • measuring glass — a graduated glass container used to measure quantities of liquid
  • metalinguistics — the study of the relation between languages and the other cultural systems they refer to.
  • miscegenational — of or relating to miscegenation
  • misintelligence — incorrect information or intelligence
  • morale-boosting — A morale-boosting action or event makes people feel more confident and cheerful.
  • moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
  • multiprocessing — the simultaneous execution of two or more programs or instruction sequences by separate CPUs under integrated control.
  • musical evening — a social evening with a musical programme
  • natural english — Programming in normal, spoken English. [Sammet 1969, p.768].
  • negro spiritual — a type of religious song originating among Black slaves in the American South
  • 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.
  • noblesse oblige — the moral obligation of those of high birth, powerful social position, etc., to act with honor, kindliness, generosity, etc.
  • non-egotistical — pertaining to or characterized by egotism.
  • non-legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
  • 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.
  • nuclear testing — the process of carrying out a test on a nuclear weapon to determine effectiveness, etc
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • organochlorines — Plural form of organochlorine.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • pilsner glass's — a pale, light lager beer.
  • plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
  • plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • pragmaticalness — the quality of being pragmatical or meddlesome
  • primary sealing — Primary sealing is devices used for sealing tanks, to reduce emissions, often made of foam.
  • problem-solving — skills, process: of finding solutions
  • public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
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