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

  • luster painting — a method of decorating glazed pottery with metallic pigment, originated in Persia, popular from the 9th through the mid-19th centuries.
  • 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.
  • manual steering — Manual steering is steering in which the driver does all the work, without the help of mechanical power.
  • marginalisation — (British) alternative spelling of marginalization.
  • master-planning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
  • 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.
  • motoring school — an organization that provides driving lessons
  • multilingualism — using or able to speak several or many languages with some facility.
  • multiprocessing — the simultaneous execution of two or more programs or instruction sequences by separate CPUs under integrated control.
  • natural english — Programming in normal, spoken English. [Sammet 1969, p.768].
  • navigation laws — laws relating to navigation
  • negro spiritual — a type of religious song originating among Black slaves in the American South
  • neurolinguistic — pertaining to neurolinguistics
  • 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.
  • night-sky light — the faint glow of the night sky, caused by such phenomena as airglow and zodiacal light.
  • nitriding steel — any steel suitable for casehardening by nitriding.
  • 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).
  • north highlands — a town in central California, near Sacramento.
  • northern lights — aurora borealis.
  • nuclear testing — the process of carrying out a test on a nuclear weapon to determine effectiveness, etc
  • numismatologist — One versed in numismatology.
  • obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
  • oligomerisation — Alternative spelling of oligomerization.
  • 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
  • paralinguistics — the study of paralanguage.
  • phenomenologist — the study of phenomena.
  • plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • polling station — voting venue
  • pragmaticalness — the quality of being pragmatical or meddlesome
  • pulsejet engine — a jet engine equipped with valves that continuously open to admit air, then close during combustion, giving a pulsating thrust: used to power the V-1, a German buzz bomb, in World War II.
  • reality testing — the objective evaluation of situations, defective in certain psychoses, that enable one to distinguish between the external and the internal worlds and between the self and the nonself.
  • refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
  • remonstratingly — in an remonstrating or dissenting manner
  • reversing light — Reversing lights are the white lights on the back of a motor vehicle which shine when the vehicle is in reverse gear.
  • revolving stage — a circular platform divided into segments enabling multiple theater sets to be put in place in advance and in turn rotated into view of the audience.
  • rigel kentaurus — Alpha Centauri.
  • rigil kentaurus — Astronomy. Alpha Centauri.
  • rolling targets — a series of targets which are reviewed periodically so that they always extend for the same period into the future
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • scaling circuit — an electronic device or circuit that aggregates electric pulses and gives a single output pulse for a predetermined number of input pulses
  • school teaching — School teaching is the work done by teachers in a school.
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