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15-letter words containing s, i, r, o, g, e

  • crisis theology — a neoorthodox theology, advocated by Karl Barth and others, emphasizing the absolute necessity of faith and divine revelation in transcending the personal crisis, common to all humankind, that arises from the contradictions inherent in human nature and in the social order.
  • crossopterygian — any bony fish of the subclass Crossopterygii, having fleshy limblike pectoral fins. The group, now mostly extinct, contains the ancestors of the amphibians
  • crustaceologist — One who studies crustaceology.
  • customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
  • cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
  • daguerreotypist — an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
  • data processing — Data processing is the series of operations that are carried out on data, especially by computers, in order to present, interpret, or obtain information.
  • degenerationist — a person who believes in the evolutionary decline of a species
  • depersonalizing — Present participle of depersonalize.
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • dermatographism — a condition in which touching or lightly scratching the skin causes raised, reddish marks.
  • design recovery — (process)   A subtask of reverse engineering in which domain knowledge, external information, and deduction of fuzzy reasoning are added to the observations of the subject system to identify meaningful higher level abstractions beyond those obtained directly by examining the system itself. In other words, design recovery aims to work out what a system or component was designed to do rather than just examining its subcomponents and their interrelationships.
  • desynchronizing — Present participle of desynchronize.
  • disconcertingly — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
  • disintegrations — the act or process of disintegrating.
  • eating disorder — any of various disorders, as anorexia nervosa or bulimia, characterized by severe disturbances in eating habits.
  • echocardiograms — Plural form of echocardiogram.
  • electrosurgical — Relating to electrosurgery.
  • endocrinologist — A person who is skilled at, or practices endocrinology.
  • english sparrow — a small Eurasian weaverbird, Passer domesticus, now established in North America and Australia. It has a brown streaked plumage with grey underparts
  • ewing's sarcoma — a form of malignant bone tumour most commonly found in children and young people
  • export earnings — the earnings of a company or country that are generated through the export of goods or services
  • feeding grounds — the place where animals gather to find food
  • fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
  • floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
  • flying fortress — a heavy bomber, the B-17, with four radial piston engines, widely used over Europe and the Mediterranean by the U.S. Air Force in World War II.
  • focusing screen — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
  • food processing — transforming raw materials into food
  • foreign affairs — politics: international relations
  • foreign mission — mission (def 10).
  • foreign service — a division of the U.S. Department of State or of a foreign office that maintains diplomatic and consular posts and personnel in other countries.
  • foreshortenings — Plural form of foreshortening.
  • foresightedness — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
  • forthcomingness — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
  • fortysomethings — Plural form of fortysomething.
  • fringing forest — gallery forest.
  • gallant soldier — a South American plant, Galinsoga parviflora, widely distributed as a weed, having small daisy-like flowers surrounded by silvery scales: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • gardening tools — tools used for gardening, such as a trowel, spade, rake, etc
  • gastroenteritis — inflammation of the stomach and intestines.
  • gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
  • generalisations — Plural form of generalisation.
  • generalizations — Plural form of generalization.
  • geochronologist — A geologist whose speciality is geochronology.
  • geodemographics — the study and grouping of the people in a geographical area according to socioeconomic criteria, esp for market research
  • geodetic survey — a land area survey in which the curvature of the surface of the earth is taken into account.
  • geomorphogenist — one who studies, or is an expert in, geomorphogeny
  • geomorphologist — A geologist whose speciality is geomorphology.
  • georg simon ohm — Georg Simon [gey-awrk zee-mawn] /geɪˈɔrk ˈzi mɔn/ (Show IPA), 1787–1854, German physicist.
  • geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
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