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15-letter words containing t, g, r, o

  • interior-sprung — (esp of a mattress) containing springs
  • interiorscaping — The design, installation, and maintenance of interiorscapes.
  • internetworking — Present participle of internetwork.
  • interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
  • interrogatingly — So as to interrogate; with urgent or bullying questioning.
  • interrogational — the act of interrogating; questioning.
  • interrogatively — In an interrogative manner; by means of a question.
  • interrogatories — conveying or expressing a question; interrogative.
  • into the ground — beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
  • ipod generation — members of the generation of adults born after 1970, who are less financially secure than their parents, due to student debt, high house prices, and job insecurity
  • job enlargement — a widening of the range of tasks performed by an employee in order to provide variety in the activities undertaken
  • jobbing printer — a person who prints mainly commercial and display work rather than books or newspapers
  • joint agreement — a formal decision about future action which is made by two or more countries, groups, or people
  • juxtaglomerular — (anatomy) Near, or adjoining a renal glomerulus.
  • kingsford-smith — Sir Charles (Edward). 1897–1935, Australian aviator and pioneer (with Charles Ulm) of trans-Pacific and trans-Tasman flights
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
  • lactovegetarian — Also called lactarian. a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products.
  • largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • laryngotracheal — of, relating to, or involving the larynx and trachea.
  • leapfrog attack — Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).
  • legacy software — legacy system
  • legion of merit — a decoration ranking below the Silver Star and above the Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded to U.S. and foreign military personnel for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the U.S.
  • length over all — Nautical. the entire length of a vessel, measured from the foremost point of the bow to the aftermost point of the stern.
  • lepidopterology — the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • let yourself go — If you let yourself go, you relax and behave much more freely than usual.
  • lift-drag ratio — the ratio of the lift to the drag of an airfoil.
  • limiting factor — Physiology. the slowest, therefore rate-limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps.
  • linear topology — (theory)   A linear topology on a left A-module M is a topology on M that is invariant under translations and admits a fundamental system of neighborhood of 0 that consists of submodules of M. If there is such a topology, M is said to be linearly topologized. If A is given a discrete topology, then M becomes a topological A-module with respect to a linear topology.
  • linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
  • liquid nitrogen — nitrogen in a liquid state
  • lobster newburg — (sometimes lowercase) lobster cooked in a thick seasoned cream sauce made with sherry or brandy.
  • logarithmically — In a logarithmic manner.
  • long parliament — the Parliament that assembled November 3, 1640, was expelled by Cromwell in 1653, reconvened in 1659, and was dissolved in 1660.
  • longhorn cattle — cattle of a long-horned breed, usually red or variegated, formerly common in SW US
  • longshore drift — beach drift.
  • look daggers at — to look at with anger or hatred
  • lord-in-waiting — a nobleman in attendance on a British monarch or the Prince of Wales.
  • lost generation — the generation of men and women who came of age during or immediately following World War I: viewed, as a result of their war experiences and the social upheaval of the time, as cynical, disillusioned, and without cultural or emotional stability.
  • lubricating oil — an oily substance that is used to cover or treat machinery so as to lessen friction
  • macroaggregated — in the form of a macroaggregate
  • macrophotograph — a photograph taken at very close range
  • magnesioferrite — (mineralogy) A magnesium iron oxide mineral, a member of the magnetite series of spinels, which forms black metallic octahedral crystals.
  • magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
  • magnetic mirror — a region in a magnetic bottle where the magnetic field increases abruptly, causing charged particles that enter it to be reflected.
  • magnetoelectric — of or relating to the induction of electric current or electromotive force by means of permanent magnets.
  • magnetoreceptor — The part of an organism responsible for magnetoreception.
  • magnetorheology — the study of the relationships between the particle and fluid properties of magnetic suspensions.
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