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

  • drip irrigation — a system of crop irrigation involving the controlled delivery of water directly to individual plants through a network of tubes or pipes.
  • dropping bottle — a bottle with correlated lengthwise grooves in the neck and in the stopper, permitting a controlled flow of the liquid contents in the form of drops.
  • drug trafficker — someone that trades in illegal drugs
  • drying-up cloth — a tea towel
  • dumpster diving — the practice of foraging in garbage that has been put out on the street in dumpsters, garbage cans, etc., for discarded items that may still be valuable, useful, or fixable.
  • duplex printing — a feature of some printers allowing them automatically to do double-sided printing
  • dynamic routing — (networking)   (Or "adaptive routing") Routing that adjusts automatically to network topology or traffic changes.
  • eating disorder — any of various disorders, as anorexia nervosa or bulimia, characterized by severe disturbances in eating habits.
  • egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
  • egyptian jasper — a type of jasper, generally with zones of colour, found in desert regions of Egypt
  • electric charge — Electric charge is an amount of electricity that is held in or carried by something.
  • electric guitar — electrically-amplified guitar
  • electric wiring — the wires which allow electricity to flow somewhere
  • electromagnetic — Of or relating to the interrelation of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
  • electronegative — Electrically negative.
  • electronic game — any of various small handheld computerized games, usually battery-operated, having a small screen on which graphics are displayed and buttons to operate the game
  • electrosurgical — Relating to electrosurgery.
  • emerging market — a financial or consumer market in a newly developing country or former communist country
  • endocrinologist — A person who is skilled at, or practices endocrinology.
  • engagement ring — ring worn by bride-to-be
  • engraving plate — a metal, usually steel, plate on which an image is engraved in order to be reproduced
  • erythromelalgia — A rare neurovascular peripheral pain disorder in which blood vessels, usually in the lower extremities or hands, are episodically blocked, then become hyperemic and inflamed.
  • estuary english — a variety of standard British English in which the pronunciation reflects various features characteristic of London and the Southeast of England
  • everlastingness — The state or quality of being everlasting.
  • export earnings — the earnings of a company or country that are generated through the export of goods or services
  • extralinguistic — Outside the realm of linguistics.
  • extreme ironing — an activity that involves ironing items of laundry while engaged in a sport such as snowboarding or rock climbing
  • factory farming — Factory farming is a system of farming which involves keeping animals indoors, often with very little space, and giving them special foods so that they grow more quickly or produce more eggs or milk.
  • fairy godfather — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godfather.
  • fairy godmother — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godmother.
  • falling weather — wet weather, as rain or snow.
  • fantasmagorical — Alternative form of phantasmagorical.
  • farm gate price — the price for the sale of farm produce direct from the producer
  • feather banding — decorative banding of veneer or inlay having the grain laid diagonally to the grain of the principal surface.
  • fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
  • fight-or-flight — denoting instinctive response
  • 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
  • fighting french — Free French.
  • fighting spirit — courage and determination expressed in a willingness to fight or struggle
  • figurate number — a number having the property that the same number of equally spaced dots can be arranged in the shape of a regular geometrical figure.
  • figure of eight — figure eight.
  • figure of merit — a measure of the efficiency of a helicopter in hover
  • finger alphabet — a series of shapes made by the fingers that indicate letters of an alphabet and can be used in fingerspelling for the deaf
  • finger painting — a jellylike paint, used chiefly by children in painting, usually with their fingers.
  • finger-pointing — the imputation of blame or responsibility.
  • fire-and-forget — used to describe a type of missile that, once fired, is able to guide itself to its target
  • first gentleman — (often initial capital letters) the husband of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
  • first messenger — a hormone that triggers a biochemical reaction at a site removed from its release.
  • flame-arc light — an arc light that uses flame carbons to colour the arc
  • flapping router — (networking)   A router that transmits routing updates alternately advertising a destination network first via one route, then via a different route. Flapping routers are identified on more advanced protocol analysers such as the Network General (TM) Sniffer.
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