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

  • intransigeantly — intransigently
  • investigational — Of, or relating to investigating, or to an investigation.
  • invisible glass — glass that has been curved to eliminate reflections.
  • irreligiousness — The state or quality of being irreligious; ungodliness.
  • island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
  • italian sausage — salami
  • jogger's nipple — painful inflammation of the nipple, caused by friction with a garment when running for long distances
  • kangaroo island — an island in the Indian Ocean, off South Australia. Area: 4350 sq km (1680 sq miles)
  • keeling islands — Cocos Islands
  • kinesthesiology — The medical and therapeutic study of the movement of muscles and joints.
  • king's shilling — (until 1879) a shilling given a recruit in the British army to bind his enlistment contract.
  • 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.
  • lady's-earrings — any of several plants having pendent flowers thought to resemble earrings, as the jewelweed or the fuchsia.
  • 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)
  • laminated glass — Laminated glass is safety glass in which a transparent plastic film is placed between plates of glass.
  • language skills — the ability to use language
  • large intestine — intestine (def 3).
  • 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.
  • laser ring gyro — a system of aerial navigation in which rotation is sensed by the measuring of the frequency shift of laser light in a closed circuit in a horizontal plane
  • leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
  • leading strings — strings or straps formerly used to guide and support a young child learning to walk
  • leaving present — a present given to a person when they leave a job, place etc
  • lemon-grass oil — a yellowish to brownish oil distilled from the leaves of certain lemon grasses, especially Cymbopogon citratus, used chiefly in perfumery.
  • leptomeningitis — (pathology) inflammation of the leptomeninges.
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • leukaemogenesis — the development of leukaemia
  • levelling screw — a screw, often one of three, for adjusting the level of an apparatus
  • lexical scoping — lexical scope
  • 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 in august — a novel (1932) by William Faulkner.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • lignocellulosic — (biochemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from lignocellulose; used especially to describe the products of biomass.
  • linguistic area — a geographical area in which several languages sharing common features are spoken.
  • linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
  • listed building — (in Britain) a building officially recognized as having special historical or architectural interest and therefore protected from demolition or alteration
  • living expenses — money spent on basic needs
  • living quarters — accommodation
  • living standard — standard of living.
  • long sweetening — liquid sweetening, as maple syrup, molasses, or sorghum.
  • 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
  • lost generation — the generation of men and women who came of age during or immediately following World War I: viewed, as a result of their war experiences and the social upheaval of the time, as cynical, disillusioned, and without cultural or emotional stability.
  • loving-kindness — tender kindness motivated by or expressing affection.
  • luminous energy — light1 (def 2a).
  • lung specialist — doctor specializing in lung conditions
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