0%

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

  • grasshopper pie — a custardlike pie, flavored and colored with green crème de menthe and served in a graham-cracker crust.
  • green sandpiper — a species of sandpiper, Tringa ochropus, with a greenish back and wings
  • group insurance — life, accident, or health insurance available to a group of persons, as the employees of a company, under a single contract, usually without regard to physical condition or age of the individuals.
  • group therapist — a psychotherapist who conducts group therapy
  • high priesthood — the condition or office of a high priest.
  • historiographer — a historian, especially one appointed to write an official history of a group, period, or institution.
  • housing project — a publicly built and operated housing development, usually intended for low- or moderate-income tenants, senior citizens, etc.
  • hyperaggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
  • hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
  • imperfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which either no spores or asexual spores, as conidia, are produced.
  • impregnableness — The state of being impregnable; impregnability.
  • 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)
  • interior-sprung — (esp of a mattress) containing springs
  • interiorscaping — The design, installation, and maintenance of interiorscapes.
  • jogger's nipple — painful inflammation of the nipple, caused by friction with a garment when running for long distances
  • john j pershing — John Joseph ("Blackjack") 1860–1948, U.S. general: commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
  • leaving present — a present given to a person when they leave a job, place etc
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • luster painting — a method of decorating glazed pottery with metallic pigment, originated in Persia, popular from the 9th through the mid-19th centuries.
  • magnetic stripe — magnetic strip.
  • master-planning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
  • measuring spoon — a spoon for measuring amounts, as in cooking, usually part of a set of spoons of different sizes.
  • microprocessing — an integrated computer circuit that performs all the functions of a CPU.
  • midgard serpent — a serpent, the child of Loki and Angerboda, who lies wrapped around the world, tail in mouth, and is destined to kill and to be killed by Thor at Ragnarok; Jormungand.
  • misapprehending — Present participle of misapprehend.
  • misinterpreting — Present participle of misinterpret.
  • misrepresenting — Present participle of misrepresent.
  • morning prayers — early-morning act of religious worship
  • mouse droppings — 1.   (graphics, operating system, jargon)   Pixels (usually single) that are not properly restored when the mouse pointer moves away from a particular location on the screen, producing the appearance that the mouse pointer has left droppings behind. The major causes for this problem are MS-DOS programs that write to the screen memory corresponding to the mouse pointer's current location without hiding the mouse pointer first, and mouse drivers that do not quite support the graphics mode in use. 2.   (web, jargon)   The client address recorded in a web server's log whenever a client connects to a site. Users may be unaware that their activity is being logged in this way but the potential for misuse of the information is limited.
  • multiprocessing — the simultaneous execution of two or more programs or instruction sequences by separate CPUs under integrated control.
  • napier-hastings — a seaport on E North Island, in New Zealand.
  • negro spiritual — a type of religious song originating among Black slaves in the American South
  • neurophysiology — the branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.
  • offset printing — offset (def 6).
  • optical storage — optical disk drive
  • overemphasizing — Present participle of overemphasize.
  • parish magazine — a magazine containing news and articles of interest to the people of a particular parish church or the local area
  • parish register — the register of the christenings, marriages, and burials in a parish.
  • parthenogenesis — development of an egg without fertilization.
  • passenger train — railway train that carries people
  • pematangsiantar — a city on NE Sumatra, in Indonesia.
  • performing arts — dance, drama, music
  • petit bourgeois — a person who belongs to the petite bourgeoisie.
  • petty bourgeois — petit bourgeois
  • phrasemongering — the act of coining memorable phrases
  • pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
  • pilgrimage site — a shrine or other sacred place that people travel to as an act of religious devotion
  • pilsner glass's — a pale, light lager beer.
  • pistachio green — a light or medium shade of yellow green.
  • plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?