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15-letter words containing s, l, o, e, g

  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • royal engineers — a branch of the British army that undertakes the building of fortifications, mines, bridges, and other engineering works
  • sauce espagnole — brown sauce.
  • school teaching — School teaching is the work done by teachers in a school.
  • school-gate mum — a young family-oriented working mother, considered by political parties as forming a significant part of the electorate
  • scolding bridle — branks.
  • scottish gaelic — the Gaelic of the Hebrides and the Highlands of Scotland, also spoken as a second language in Nova Scotia.
  • sebaceous gland — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
  • second blessing — an experience of sanctification coming after conversion.
  • second language — a language learned by a person after his or her native language, especially as a resident of an area where it is in general use.
  • self-abnegation — self-denial or self-sacrifice.
  • self-committing — to give in trust or charge; consign.
  • self-correcting — automatically adjusting to or correcting mistakes, malfunctions, etc.: a self-correcting mechanism.
  • self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • self-exploiting — to utilize, especially for profit; turn to practical account: to exploit a business opportunity.
  • self-forgetting — self-forgetful.
  • self-generation — production or reproduction of something without the aid of an external agent; spontaneous generation.
  • self-glorifying — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
  • self-government — control of the government of a state, community, or other body by its own members; democratic government.
  • self-immolating — of, relating to, or tending toward self-immolation.
  • self-monitoring — (especially formerly) a student appointed to assist in the conduct of a class or school, as to help take attendance or keep order.
  • self-regulation — control by oneself or itself, as in an economy, business organization, etc., especially such control as exercised independently of governmental supervision, laws, or the like.
  • self-regulatory — Self-regulatory systems, organizations, or activities are controlled by the people involved in them, rather than by outside organizations or rules.
  • self-renouncing — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
  • self-suggestion — the act of suggesting.
  • self-supporting — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
  • semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
  • senior wrangler — (at Cambridge University) a candidate who has obtained first-class honours in Part II of the mathematics tripos and got the highest marks
  • serial monogamy — a form of monogamy characterized by several successive, short-term marriages over the course of a lifetime.
  • sewage disposal — waste processing
  • shipping losses — the total loss of a navy's ships in wartime, esp with reference to those sunk during the Second World War
  • shoulder charge — an instance of a player charging into another so that there is contact between their shoulders (permissible in some circumstances)
  • shoulder girdle — pectoral girdle (def 2).
  • shoulder-length — Shoulder-length hair is long enough to reach your shoulders.
  • sigmoid flexure — Zoology. an S -shaped curve in a body part.
  • silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
  • singapore sling — a cocktail of gin, cherry brandy, sugar, and water.
  • slavonian grebe — a N Eurasian or N American grebe with reddish underside and a black and gold crest; Podiceps auritus
  • sleeve coupling — a cylinder joining the ends of two lengths of shafting or pipe.
  • sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
  • smelling bottle — a small bottle or vial for holding smelling salts or perfume.
  • smoking-related — (of a disease, illness, etc) caused by smoking tobacco, etc
  • snaggle toothed — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
  • snaggle-toothed — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
  • social heritage — the entire inherited pattern of cultural activity present in a society.
  • social register — a directory or list of people prominent in the fashionable society of a given area
  • social spending — the money that is spent on welfare payments
  • soft-boiled egg — boiled egg with runny yolk
  • soul-destroying — Activities or situations that are soul-destroying make you depressed, because they are boring or because there is no hope of improvement.
  • source language — the language in which a text appears that is to be translated into another language. Compare target language (def 1).
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