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15-letter words containing t, h, e, g, n, l

  • lightheadedness — Alternative spelling of light-headedness.
  • lightning chess — rapid chess in which either each move has a fixed time allowed (usually 10 seconds) or each player is allotted a fixed time (often 5 minutes) for all his moves
  • longhorn cattle — cattle of a long-horned breed, usually red or variegated, formerly common in SW US
  • longshore drift — beach drift.
  • longsightedness — Farsight; farsightedness; far sight; long sight.
  • magnesium light — the strongly actinic white light produced when magnesium is burned: used in photography, signaling, pyrotechnics, etc.
  • magnetorheology — the study of the relationships between the particle and fluid properties of magnetic suspensions.
  • malpighian tube — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
  • methylene group — the bivalent organic group >CH 2 , derived from methane.
  • microtechnology — technology that uses microelectronics
  • monthly meeting — (often initial capital letters) a district unit of local congregations of the Society of Friends.
  • mother language — a language from which another language is descended; parent language.
  • mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
  • multiwavelength — Involving, or composed of, multiple wavelengths.
  • natural english — Programming in normal, spoken English. [Sammet 1969, p.768].
  • neuropathologic — Of or pertaining to neuropathology.
  • 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.
  • north las vegas — a city in S Nevada.
  • northern lights — aurora borealis.
  • palaeontography — the branch of palaeontology concerned with the description of fossils
  • personal growth — development as an individual
  • phenomenologist — the study of phenomena.
  • radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
  • reading the law — that part of the morning service on Sabbaths, festivals, and Mondays and Thursdays during which a passage is read from the Torah scrolls
  • reversing light — Reversing lights are the white lights on the back of a motor vehicle which shine when the vehicle is in reverse gear.
  • rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
  • rolling kitchen — a mobile kitchen used for feeding troops outdoors.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • run the gantlet — to be punished by means of the gantlet
  • school teaching — School teaching is the work done by teachers in a school.
  • sheet lightning — lightning appearing merely as a general illumination over a broad area, usually because the path of the flash is obscured by clouds.
  • shoulder-length — Shoulder-length hair is long enough to reach your shoulders.
  • sign the pledge — to make a vow to abstain from alcoholic drink
  • 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.
  • snaggle toothed — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
  • snaggle-toothed — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
  • southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
  • southern lights — aurora australis.
  • starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
  • street lighting — the provision of lighting at night in public places to illuminate the streets
  • strobe lighting — a high-intensity flashing beam of light produced by rapid electrical discharges in a tube or by a perforated disc rotating in front of an intense light source: used in discotheques, etc
  • take the plunge — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
  • talking machine — Older Use. a phonograph.
  • teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
  • technologically — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • telegraph plant — a tick trefoil, Desmodium motorium, of the legume family, native to tropical Asia, noted for the spontaneous, jerking, signallike motions of its leaflets.
  • the anglo-irish — the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent
  • the everlasting — God
  • the living dead — dead people that have been brought back to life by a supernatural force
  • the saint leger — an annual horse race run at Doncaster since 1776: one of the classics of the flat-racing season
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