16-letter words containing a, d, i, g
- higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
- horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
- hudsonian godwit — any of several large, widely distributed shorebirds of the genus Limosa, as the New World L. haemastica (Hudsonian godwit) having a long bill that curves upward slightly.
- huffman encoding — Huffman coding
- hydraulic mining — placer mining using a pressurized stream of water.
- hydrogen cyanide — a colorless poisonous gas, HCN, having a bitter almondlike odor: in aqueous solution it forms hydrocyanic acid.
- hyperandrogenism — (medicine) An abnormally high production of androgens.
- inauguration day — the day on which the president of the United States is inaugurated, being January 20 of every year following a year whose number is divisible by four. Prior to the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution (ratified February 6, 1933), it was March 4.
- indecency charge — an accusation of committing indecency
- indefatigability — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
- indian wrestling — arm wrestling
- indiscriminating — not discriminating.
- interlaced image — progressive coding
- irrigation ditch — trench supplying land with water
- italian dressing — a strongly flavored vinaigrette for salads, containing garlic, oregano, red peppers, etc.
- karadeniz bogazi — Bosporus
- kentucky windage — a method of correcting for windage, gravity, etc., by aiming a weapon to one side of the target instead of by adjusting the sights.
- kingdom of arles — a kingdom in SE France which had dissolved by 1378: known as the Kingdom of Burgundy until about 1200
- kingdom-of-nubia — a region in S Egypt and the Sudan, N of Khartoum, extending from the Nile to the Red Sea.
- kingfisher daisy — a bushy southern African plant, Felicia bergerana, having grasslike leaves and solitary, bright-blue flowers.
- knowledgeability — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- ladies'-earrings — lady's-earrings.
- landed immigrant — foreigner: permanent resident
- leading question — a question so worded as to suggest the proper or desired answer.
- led page printer — LED printer
- legal dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the various branches of the legal profession, as civil law, criminal law, and corporate law. A comprehensive legal dictionary adds to its body of standard English entries many words and phrases that have made their way into modern legal practice from law French and Latin and are rarely found in a general English monolingual dictionary. Such a specialized dictionary is useful not only for law students and for attorneys themselves, but for members of the lay public who require legal services. Legal dictionaries published in print follow the normal practice of sorting entry terms alphabetically, while electronic dictionaries, such as the online Dictionary of Law on Dictionary.com, allow direct, immediate access to a search term.
- light adaptation — the reflex adaptation of the eye to bright light, consisting of an increase in the number of functioning cones, accompanied by a decrease in the number of functioning rods (opposed to dark adaptation).
- lightheartedness — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
- like cat and dog — quarrelling savagely
- little englander — an English person who believes the best interests of Britain are served by attention to Britain itself, rather than to the concerns of the empire.
- liturgical drama — medieval drama, based on incidents in the Bible and performed in churches on holy days, usually in Latin and often chanted.
- living daylights — having life; being alive; not dead: living persons.
- living standards — standard of living; material quality of life
- long-established — having a long history; old
- machine moulding — the process of making moulds and cores for castings by mechanical means, usually by compacting the moulding sand by vibration instead of by ramming down
- magellanic cloud — either of two irregular galactic clusters in the southern heavens that are the nearest independent star system to the Milky Way.
- mahmud of ghazni — a.d. 971?–1030, Muslim Amir of Ghazni 997–1030.
- malicious damage — Malicious damage is damage caused on purpose to the property of another person.
- market gardening — Chiefly British. truck farm.
- marshalling yard — a place or depot where railway wagons are shunted and made up into trains and where engines, carriages, etc, are kept when not in use
- masculine ending — a final inflection or suffix designating that a word belongs to the masculine gender.
- mayfield heights — a city in N Ohio, near Cleveland.
- measuring device — gauge
- message digest 5 — (messaging) The message digest function defined in RFC 1321.
- methodologically — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
- middle stone age — the Mesolithic period.
- missionary ridge — a ridge in NW Georgia and SE Tennessee: Civil War battle 1863.
- misunderstanding — failure to understand correctly; mistake as to meaning or intent.
- money laundering — Money laundering is the crime of processing stolen money through a legitimate business or sending it abroad to a foreign bank, to hide the fact that the money was illegally obtained.
- mongolian idiocy — (no longer in technical use) Down syndrome.