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16-letter words containing a, d, n, o, u

  • find favour with — to be approved of by someone
  • fool around with — have casual sex
  • for the duration — If you say that something will happen for the duration, you mean that it will happen for as long as a particular situation continues.
  • foundation stone — any of the stones composing the foundation of a building.
  • founders' shares — shares awarded to the founders of a company and often granting special privileges
  • four-dimensional — of a space having points, or a set having elements, which require four coordinates for their unique determination.
  • fourth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting unlawful search and seizure of personal property.
  • funeral director — a person, usually a licensed embalmer, who supervises or conducts the preparation of the dead for burial and directs or arranges funerals.
  • gaudí (i cornet) — An‧to‧nio (ɑnˈtɔnjɔ ) ; änt^ōˈny^ō) 1852-1926; Sp. architect
  • golden handcuffs — payments deferred over a number of years that induce a person to stay with a particular company or in a particular job
  • golden parachute — an employment contract or agreement guaranteeing a key executive of a company substantial severance pay and other financial benefits in the event of job loss caused by the company's being sold or merged.
  • grace-and-favour — (of a house, flat, etc) owned by the sovereign and granted free of rent to a person to whom the sovereign wishes to express gratitude
  • grand inquisitor — (often initial capital letters) the presiding officer of a court of inquisition.
  • greyhound racing — a sport in which a mechanically propelled dummy hare is pursued by greyhounds around a race track
  • ground substance — Also called matrix. the homogeneous substance in which the fibers and cells of connective tissue are embedded.
  • grounded neutral — Grounded neutral is the situation in which the neutral wire of an electrical supply system is connected to ground.
  • guaranteed stock — stock for which dividends are guaranteed by a company other than the one issuing the stock.
  • gulf of honduras — an inlet of the Caribbean, on the coasts of Honduras, Guatemala, and Belize
  • gulf of liaodong — the N part of the Gulf of Chihli, west of the Liaodong Peninsula
  • gulf of thailand — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
  • gynandromorphous — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
  • hang around with — to associate or socialize with
  • have been around — be experienced
  • health education — education that aims to give people the information they need to live healthily
  • higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
  • horsehead nebula — a dark nebula in the constellation Orion, composed of opaque cosmic dust and resembling the head of a horse.
  • housemaid's knee — inflammation of the bursa over the front of the kneecap.
  • 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
  • hundred-year-old — of one hundred years of age
  • hydration number — the number of molecules of water with which an ion can combine in an aqueous solution of given concentration.
  • hydroxylammonium — (inorganic compound) The univalent NH3OH+ cation, derived from hydroxylamine.
  • hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
  • immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
  • immunomodulation — Any of several adjustments in the level of an immune response.
  • immunomodulatory — (medical) Having the ability to alter or regulate immune functions.
  • in a brown study — in a reverie or daydream
  • 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.
  • inboard-outboard — Also, outdrive, stern-drive. (of a motorboat) having an inboard engine connected to a maneuverable outboard drive-shaft unit.
  • indian liquorice — a woody leguminous climbing plant, Abrus precatorius, native to tropical Asia and naturalized elsewhere, having scarlet black-spotted poisonous seeds, used as beads, and roots used as a substitute for liquorice
  • indo-europeanist — a linguist specializing in the study, especially the comparative study, of the Indo-European languages.
  • industrial union — a labor union composed of workers in various trades and crafts within one industry.
  • infant education — (in England and Wales) education provided for children at infant schools
  • internal auditor — a person who carries out an internal audit
  • intravenous drip — the continuous, slow introduction of a fluid into a vein of the body. Abbreviation: IV.
  • john of damascusSaint, a.d. c675–749, priest, theologian, and scholar of the Eastern Church, born in Damascus.
  • judaeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
  • jump up and down — bounce
  • jurisdictionally — In a jurisdictional way.
  • kingdom-of-nubia — a region in S Egypt and the Sudan, N of Khartoum, extending from the Nile to the Red Sea.
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