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16-letter words containing a, g, r, o, i, n

  • gender dysphoria — a psychological condition marked by significant emotional distress and impairment in life functioning, caused by a lack of congruence between gender identity and biological sex assigned at birth.
  • 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 hospital — A general hospital is a hospital that does not specialize in the treatment of particular illnesses or patients.
  • general sessions — a court of general jurisdiction in criminal cases in some U.S. states.
  • 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
  • geochronological — Of or pertaining to geochronology.
  • geographic range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible to the eye at a given elevation, assuming that the weather is clear and that the light is sufficiently powerful to be visible from any point at which it appears above the horizon.
  • globigerina ooze — a calcareous deposit occurring upon ocean beds and consisting mainly of the shells of dead foraminifers, especially globigerina.
  • 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.
  • goods in transit — articles that are in the process of being carried by vehicle from one place to another
  • governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
  • governors island — an island in New York Bay at the S end of the East River: U.S. military post. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
  • 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.
  • grand inquisitor — (often initial capital letters) the presiding officer of a court of inquisition.
  • granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
  • 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.
  • greyhound racing — a sport in which a mechanically propelled dummy hare is pursued by greyhounds around a race track
  • grid declination — the angular difference between true north and grid north on a map
  • growth potential — capability of expanding
  • gynandromorphism — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
  • hang around with — to associate or socialize with
  • hanging wardrobe — a wardrobe containing a rail with a large amount of space underneath, so that clothes can be hung on hangers placed onto the rail
  • hard rock mining — (loosely) of or relating to igneous or metamorphic rocks, as in mining (hard-rock mining) and geology (hard-rock geology)
  • here we go again — You use expressions such as 'here we go' and 'here we go again' in order to indicate that something is happening again in the way that you expected, especially something unpleasant.
  • herringbone gear — a helical gear having teeth that lie on the pitch cylinder in a V -shaped form so that one half of each tooth is on a right-handed helix and the other half on a left-handed helix.
  • high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
  • higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
  • horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
  • horsehair fungus — an edible white, striated, umbrella-capped mushroom, Marasmius rotula, commonly found in eastern North America.
  • housing shortage — a deficiency or lack in the number of houses needed to accommodate the population of an area
  • 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.
  • hyperconjugation — (organic chemistry) A weak form of conjugation in which single bonds interact with a conjugated system.
  • hyperoxygenation — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
  • image processing — (graphics)   Computer manipulation of images. Some of the many algorithms used in image processing include convolution (on which many others are based), FFT, DCT, thinning (or skeletonisation), edge detection and contrast enhancement. These are usually implemented in software but may also use special purpose hardware for speed. Image processing contrasts with computer graphics, which is usually more concerned with the generation of artificial images, and visualisation, which attempts to understand (real-world) data by displaying it as an artificial image (e.g. a graph). Image processing is used in image recognition and computer vision. See also Pilot European Image Processing Archive.
  • immigration laws — regulations on incoming foreigners
  • immoral earnings — money earned from work that transgresses accepted moral or legal rules
  • immunoregulation — (immunology) The control of immune responses between lymphocytes and macrophages.
  • immunoregulatory — Of or pertaining to immunoregulation.
  • 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.
  • inflationary gap — the excess of total spending in an economy over the value, at current prices, of the output it can produce
  • interior mapping — an open map.
  • into the bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
  • irrigation ditch — trench supplying land with water
  • javelin throwing — the sport of throwing the javelin
  • kamerlingh onnes — Heike [hahy-kuh] /ˈhaɪ kə/ (Show IPA), 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: Nobel Prize 1913.
  • kamerlingh-onnes — Heike (ˈhaɪkə). 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: a pioneer of the physics of low-temperature materials and discoverer (1911) of superconductivity. Nobel prize for physics 1913
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