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16-letter words containing a, e, g, u

  • 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.
  • gonzález márquez — Felipe (feˈlipe). born 1942, Spanish statesman; prime minister of Spain (1982–96)
  • 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
  • graduate student — postgraduate-level student
  • granulated paper — paper with a roughened surface
  • granulated sugar — a coarsely ground white sugar, widely used as a sweetener.
  • granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
  • grapefruit juice — nectar of the grapefruit
  • graphic language — For specifying graphic operations.
  • gray nurse shark — a sand shark, Odontaspis arenarius, abundant in S African and Australian coastal waters and estuaries.
  • great blue heron — a large American heron, Ardea herodias, having bluish-gray plumage.
  • great soil group — according to a system of classification that originated in Russia, any of several broad groups of soils with common characteristics usually associated with particular climates and vegetation types.
  • great-granduncle — an uncle of one's grandfather or grandmother.
  • grenade launcher — a device attached to the muzzle of a rifle, permitting the firing of rifle grenades.
  • grey nurse shark — a common greyish Australian shark, Odontaspis arenarius
  • 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.
  • growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
  • guaranteed stock — stock for which dividends are guaranteed by a company other than the one issuing the stock.
  • gunnery sergeant — a noncommissioned officer ranking above a staff sergeant and below a first or master sergeant.
  • gutierrez najera — Manuel [mah-nwel] /mɑˈnwɛl/ (Show IPA), ("El Duque Job") 1859–95, Mexican poet, short-story writer, and editor.
  • guy fawkes night — In Britain, Guy Fawkes Night is the evening of 5th November, when many people have parties with bonfires and fireworks. It began as a way of remembering the attempt by Guy Fawkes to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. Guy Fawkes Night is often referred to as 'Bonfire Night'.
  • gyratory crusher — A gyratory crusher is a crusher in which a cone-shaped rod rotates in a cone-shaped bowl.
  • hanseatic league — a medieval league of towns of northern Germany and adjacent countries for the promotion and protection of commerce.
  • have a big mouth — to speak indiscreetly, loudly, or excessively
  • headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
  • hemagglutinating — That causes hemagglutination.
  • hemagglutination — the clumping of red blood cells.
  • higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
  • homeric laughter — loud, hearty laughter, as of the gods.
  • horsehair fungus — an edible white, striated, umbrella-capped mushroom, Marasmius rotula, commonly found in eastern North America.
  • hot stove league — devotees of a sport, especially baseball, who meet for off-season talks.
  • hot-stove league — devotees of a sport, especially baseball, who meet for off-season talks.
  • hourglass figure — the shape of a woman who is well-proportioned and has a small waist
  • housing shortage — a deficiency or lack in the number of houses needed to accommodate the population of an area
  • huffman encoding — Huffman coding
  • huntington beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
  • hyperconjugation — (organic chemistry) A weak form of conjugation in which single bonds interact with a conjugated system.
  • hypersexualizing — Present participle of hypersexualize.
  • image consultant — imagemaker.
  • imaginary number — Also called imaginary, pure imaginary number. a complex number having its real part equal to zero.
  • imago europe plc — A UK Internet provider. There sevice is called Imago On-line. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • immunohematology — the study of blood and blood-forming tissue in relation to the immune response.
  • immunoregulation — (immunology) The control of immune responses between lymphocytes and macrophages.
  • immunoregulatory — Of or pertaining to immunoregulation.
  • import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
  • in large measure — If something is true in some measure or in large measure, it is partly or mostly true.
  • in the long haul — in a future time
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