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15-letter words containing g

  • agro-industrial — the large-scale production, processing, and packaging of food using modern equipment and methods.
  • agulhas current — a fast, warm ocean current flowing southwest along the SE coast of Africa
  • airconditioning — Alternative spelling of air conditioning.
  • aircraft hangar — a large workshop or building for storing and maintaining aircraft
  • airing cupboard — In British houses, an airing cupboard is a warm cupboard where you put clothes and other things that have been washed and partly dried, to make sure they are completely dry.
  • airs and graces — If you refer to someone's airs and graces, you mean that they behave in a way that shows that they think they are more important than other people.
  • alan f. shugart — (person)   The man who founded Shugart Associates and later co-founded Seagate Technology. Alan Shugart left Shugart Associates in 1974 [did he quit or was he fired?] and took a break from the disk-drive business. In 1979, he and Finis Conner founded a new company that at first was called Shugart Technology and later Seagate Technology.
  • albany congress — a meeting of delegates from seven American colonies, held in 1754 at Albany, New York, at which Benjamin Franklin proposed a plan (Albany Plan of Union) for unifying the colonies.
  • albertus magnus — Saint. original name Albert, Count von Böllstadt. ?1193–1280, German scholastic philosopher; teacher of Thomas Aquinas and commentator on Aristotle. Feast day: Nov 15
  • algaroth powder — antimony oxychloride.
  • algebra of sets — a nonempty collection of sets having the property that the union of two sets of the collection is a set of the collection and the complement of each set of the collection is a set in the collection.
  • algerian stripe — a fabric woven with alternate stripes of coarse cotton and silk, usually cream-colored.
  • algorithmically — Using an algorithm.
  • alignment chart — nomogram.
  • alkylating drug — any of various potentially cytotoxic, carcinogenic, and mutagenic substances: used therapeutically to destroy cells, especially proliferating cancer cells.
  • all-flying tail — a type of aircraft tailplane in which the whole of the tailplane is moved for control purposes
  • allegoricalness — the quality of being allegorical
  • allende gossensSalvador, 1908–73, Chilean political leader: president 1970–73.
  • alligator shear — heavy shears for cutting metal slabs.
  • allorecognition — The ability of an individual organism to distinguish its own tissues from those of another.
  • alluvial mining — a method of extracting minerals by dredging alluvial deposits
  • almighty dollar — money regarded as a major goal in life or as the basis of power: Love of the almighty dollar has ruined many people.
  • alpha and omega — the first and last, a phrase used in Revelation 1:8 to signify God's eternity
  • alpha geminorum — Castor
  • amador guerrero — Manuel [mah-nwel] /mɑˈnwɛl/ (Show IPA), 1833–1909, Panamanian political leader: first president of Panama 1904–08.
  • amalgam filling — a dental filling made of amalgam
  • amalgam gilding — a process of gilding metalwork in which the metal base is coated with an amalgam of gold and mercury, the latter subsequently being driven off by heat.
  • amegakaryocytic — Characterized by a lack of megakaryocytes.
  • american blight — any plant louse of the family Aphididae, characterized by a waxy secretion that appears like a jumbled mass of fine, curly, white cottony or woolly threads, as Eriosoma lanigerum (woolly apple aphid or American blight) and Prociphilus tessellatus (woolly alder aphid)
  • american gothic — a painting (1930) by Grant Wood.
  • american league — one of the two major professional U.S. baseball leagues, established in 1900. Abbreviation: A.L.
  • american legion — an association of former member of the US armed forces
  • american wigeon — a bird of North America, Anas americana, that is similar to the wigeon; the male has a white crown
  • americanologist — a foreign expert or specialist in American cultural or political matters: a leading Americanologist in the Kremlin.
  • aminoglycosides — Plural form of aminoglycoside.
  • an axe to grind — an ulterior motive
  • anaesthesiology — the science of administering anesthetics.
  • anagrammatizing — Present participle of anagrammatize.
  • analog computer — a mechanical, electrical, or electronic computer that performs arithmetical operations by using some variable physical quantity, such as mechanical movement or voltage, to represent numbers
  • analogous color — Art. any one of a group of related colors that are near each other on the color wheel, a circular chart that shows gradations of color: Red, orange, and yellow are analogous colors. Compare complementary color (def 1a).
  • anchorage point — a point to which something such as the straps securing a childseat can be safely attached
  • andes lightning — an electrical discharge of the corona type, occurring over mountains when the atmosphere is electrically disturbed.
  • andrew carnegieAndrew, 1835–1919, U.S. steel manufacturer and philanthropist, born in Scotland.
  • andrographolide — (organic compound) A bitter labdane diterpenoid that is the main bioactive component of the medicinal plant Andrographis paniculata, effective against certain cancers.
  • angel food cake — a light, spongy, white cake made with egg whites and no shortening
  • angel's-trumpet — any of several plants belonging to the genera Brugmansia and Datura, of the nightshade family, having large, trumpet-shaped flowers in a variety of colors.
  • angina pectoris — a sudden intense pain in the chest, often accompanied by feelings of suffocation, caused by momentary lack of adequate blood supply to the heart muscle
  • angiomyolipomas — Plural form of angiomyolipoma.
  • angiotensin iii — any of three oligopeptides occurring in plasma, an inactive form (angiotensin I) and two varieties (angiotensin II and angiotensin III) that elevate blood pressure and stimulate the adrenal cortex to secrete aldosterone.
  • angle of attack — the acute angle between the chord line of an aerofoil and the undisturbed relative airflow
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