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15-letter words containing t, a, g, e, n, d

  • exaggeratedness — the quality of being exaggerated
  • external degree — a degree gained by a student who studies extramurally
  • feather banding — decorative banding of veneer or inlay having the grain laid diagonally to the grain of the principal surface.
  • fetal diagnosis — prenatal determination of genetic or chemical abnormalities in a fetus, esp by amniocentesis
  • fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
  • fire-and-forget — used to describe a type of missile that, once fired, is able to guide itself to its target
  • floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
  • fluorine dating — a method of determining the relative age of fossil bones found in the same excavation by comparing their fluorine content.
  • founding father — The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
  • french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
  • fringed gentian — a plant of the genus Gentianopsis (or Gentiana), especially G. crinita, having a tubular blue corolla with four fringed petals.
  • 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
  • gated community — a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.
  • gender equality — the state of having the same rights, status, and opportunities as others, regardless of one's gender.
  • general studies — a school subject that includes a variety of skills and topics (such as comprehension, and current affairs, which may complement the study of A-levels in specific subjects)
  • get a handle on — that which may be held, seized, grasped, or taken advantage of in effecting a purpose: The clue was a handle for solving the mystery.
  • get any good of — to handle to good effect
  • get one's cards — to be told to leave one's employment
  • gilbert islands — a group of islands in the W Pacific: with Banaba, the Phoenix Islands, and three of the Line Islands they constitute the independent state of Kiribati; until 1975 they formed part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands; achieved full independence in 1979. Pop: 82 902 (2005). Area: 295 sq km (114 sq miles)
  • go into details — If someone does not go into details about a subject, or does not go into the detail, they mention it without explaining it fully or properly.
  • go the distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
  • golden nematode — a yellowish nematode, Heterodera rostochiensis, that is parasitic on the roots of potatoes, tomatoes, and other solanaceous plants.
  • golden pheasant — an Asiatic pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus, having brilliant scarlet, orange, gold, green, and black plumage.
  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • golden triangle — (sometimes lowercase) an area of Southeast Asia encompassing parts of Burma, Laos, and Thailand, significant as a major source of opium and heroin.
  • goldenrain tree — a small, deciduous Asian tree (Koelreuteria paniculata) of the soapberry family having small yellow flowers and papery fruit pods
  • goodheartedness — The quality of being goodhearted.
  • gotterdammerung — German Mythology. the destruction of the gods and of all things in a final battle with evil powers: erroneous modern translation of the Old Icelandic Ragnarǫk, meaning “fate of the gods,” misunderstood as Ragnarökkr, meaning “twilight of the gods.”.
  • grade inflation — the awarding of higher grades than students deserve either to maintain a school's academic reputation or as a result of diminished teacher expectations.
  • grand serjeanty — serjeanty in which the tenant rendered services of a personal, honorary nature to the king, as carrying his sword or banner.
  • grand staircase — a large and impressive staircase
  • grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • grandparenthood — The state of being a grandparent.
  • graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
  • great sanhedrin — Sanhedrin (def 1).
  • great-grandaunt — an aunt of one's grandfather or grandmother.
  • great-sanhedrin — Also called Great Sanhedrin. the highest council of the ancient Jews, consisting of 71 members, and exercising authority from about the 2nd century b.c.
  • griqualand east — a former district in S South Africa, SW of Natal.
  • griqualand west — a former district in S South Africa, N of the Orange River and W of the Orange Free State: diamonds found 1867.
  • guaranteed bond — a bond issued by a corporation in which payment of the principal, interest, or both is guaranteed by another corporation.
  • guidance system — The guidance system of a missile or rocket is the device which controls its course.
  • guns and butter — a symbol for the economic policy of a government insofar as spending is allocated for either military or social purposes
  • guru meditation — (operating system)   The Amiga equivalent of Unix's panic (sometimes just called a "guru" or "guru event"). When the system crashes, a cryptic message of the form "GURU MEDITATION #XXXXXXXX.YYYYYYYY" may appear, indicating what the problem was. An Amiga guru can figure things out from the numbers. In the earliest days of the Amiga, there was a device called a "Joyboard" which was basically a plastic board built onto a joystick-like device; it was sold with a skiing game cartridge for the Atari game machine. It is said that whenever the prototype OS crashed, the system programmer responsible would concentrate on a solution while sitting cross-legged, balanced on a Joyboard, resembling a meditating guru. Sadly, the joke was removed in AmigaOS 2.04. The Jargon File claimed that a guru event had to be followed by a Vulcan nerve pinch but, according to a correspondent, a mouse click was enough to start a reboot.
  • heat-conducting — able to conduct heat or whose function is to conduct heat
  • highland cattle — a breed of cattle with shaggy hair, usually reddish-brown in colour, and long horns
  • holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • inside straight — Poker. a set of four cards, as the five, seven, eight, and nine, requiring one card of a denomination next above or below the second or third ranking cards of the set to make a straight.
  • insider trading — the illegal buying and selling of securities by persons acting on privileged information.
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