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16-letter words containing a, e, r, o, t, n

  • gastroenterology — the study of the structure, functions, and diseases of digestive organs.
  • gastrointestinal — of, relating to, or affecting the stomach and intestines.
  • gaudí (i cornet) — An‧to‧nio (ɑnˈtɔnjɔ ) ; änt^ōˈny^ō) 1852-1926; Sp. architect
  • gender-normative — cisgender.
  • general aviation — aviation including business flying, sports flying, and crop dusting.
  • general election — U.S. Politics. a regularly scheduled local, state, or national election in which voters elect officeholders. Compare primary (def 15). a state or national election, as opposed to a local election.
  • general factotum — a person who does all sorts of jobs; general assistant
  • general hospital — A general hospital is a hospital that does not specialize in the treatment of particular illnesses or patients.
  • general solution — a solution to a differential equation that contains arbitrary, unevaluated constants.
  • generation jones — members of the generation of people born in the Western world between the mid-1950s and the mid-1960s
  • 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.
  • golden rain tree — an ornamental tree, Koelreuteria paniculata, of the soapberry family, native to China and adjacent areas, having pinnate leaves, large clusters of fragrant yellow flowers, and inflated pods containing black seeds used as beads.
  • gongora y argote — Luis de [lwees de] /lwis dɛ/ (Show IPA), 1561–1627, Spanish poet.
  • good-heartedness — the quality of being good-hearted
  • governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
  • grade separation — separation of the levels at which roads, railroads, paths, etc., cross one another in order to prevent conflicting rows of traffic or the possibility of accidents.
  • granger movement — a campaign for state control of railroads and grain elevators, especially in the north central states, carried on during the 1870s by members of the Patrons of Husbandry (the Grange) a farmers' organization that had been formed for social and cultural purposes.
  • grant of probate — a certificate stating that a will is valid
  • granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
  • great blue heron — a large American heron, Ardea herodias, having bluish-gray plumage.
  • great depression — the economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s.
  • great horned owl — a large, brown-speckled owl, Bubo virginianus, common in the Western Hemisphere, having prominent ear tufts.
  • grid declination — the angular difference between true north and grid north on a map
  • 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 potential — capability of expanding
  • 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.
  • hair conditioner — a substance used, often after shampooing, to detangle and improve the condition of the hair. Like shampoo, it is applied to wet hair and then rinsed out after applying.
  • hammer and tongs — with great vigor, determination, or vehemence: When he starts a job he goes at it hammer and tongs.
  • hard times token — any of a series of U.S. copper tokens, issued 1834–41, bearing a political inscription or advertising message and serving as currency during coin shortages.
  • hare's-foot fern — a fern, Polypodium aureum, of tropical America, having a brown, scaly rootstock and green or deep bluish-green fronds.
  • harvey firestone — Harvey Samuel, 1868–1938, U.S. industrialist and rubber manufacturer.
  • have no time for — not tolerate
  • have the drop on — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
  • hawthorne effect — a positive change in the performance of a group of persons taking part in an experiment or study due to their perception of being singled out for special consideration.
  • headed notepaper — notepaper headed with the name and address of a person or organization
  • health inspector — a public employee who inspects places such as restaurants, shops, factories etc to make sure they are hygienic and do not pose any dangers to health
  • heat of reaction — the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a product is formed at constant pressure
  • heat prostration — heat exhaustion.
  • hematocrystallin — (biology, archaic) hemoglobin.
  • hemopneumothorax — (medicine) pneumothorax and hemothorax occurring together.
  • hepatopancreases — Plural form of hepatopancreas.
  • herman hollerith — (person)   The promulgator of the punched card. Hollerith was born on 1860-02-29 and died on 1929-11-17. He graduated from Columbia University, NewYork, NY, USA. He joined the US Census Bureau as a statistician where he used a punched card device to help analyse the 1880 US census data. This punched card system stored data in 80 columns. This "80-column" concept has carried forward in various forms into modern applications. In 1896, Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company to exploit his invention and in 1924 his firm became part of IBM. The Hollerith system was used for the 1911 UK census. A correspondant writes: Wasn't Hollerith's original machine first used for the 1990 US census? And I think I am right in saying that the physical layout was a 20x12 grid of round holes. The one I have seen (picture only, unfortunately, not the real thing) did not use 'columns' as such but holes were grouped into irregularly-shaped fields, such that each hole had a more-or-less independent function.
  • hernando de soto — Hernando [her-nan-doh;; Spanish er-nahn-daw] /hərˈnæn doʊ;; Spanish ɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), or Fernando [fer-nan-doh;; Spanish fer-nahn-daw] /fərˈnæn doʊ;; Spanish fɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), c1500–42, Spanish soldier and explorer in America.
  • heroin addiction — addiction to the drug heroin
  • heteropalindrome — Something that spells something else when reversed, a semordnilap.
  • hexachloroethane — a colorless crystalline compound, C 2 Cl 6 , with a camphorlike odor, soluble in alcohol and ether, insoluble in water: used in organic synthesis and pyrotechnics, as a retarding agent in fermentation, and as a solvent.
  • hierophantically — In a hierophantic manner; in the manner of a hierophant.
  • higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
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