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16-letter words containing a, g, u, s, t

  • absolute ceiling — the maximum height above sea level, usually measured in feet or metres, at which an aircraft can maintain horizontal flight
  • activated sludge — a mass of aerated precipitated sewage added to untreated sewage to bring about purification by hastening decomposition by microorganisms
  • advantageousness — The state or quality of being advantageous.
  • aggregate supply — the total supply of goods and services produced by a national economy in a specified time period, at a specified price level
  • agustin iturbide — Agustín de [ah-goos-teen de] /ˌɑ gusˈtin dɛ/ (Show IPA), 1783–1824, Mexican soldier and revolutionary: as Agustín I, emperor of Mexico 1822–23.
  • anglo-australian — belonging, relating to, or involving England and Australia, or the people of the two countries.
  • angostura (bark) — the bitter aromatic bark of either of two South American trees (Galipea officinalis or Cusparia trifoliata) of the rue family, used as a medicinal tonic and as a flavoring in bitters
  • asparagus beetle — either of two leaf beetles of the genus Crioceris that feed on the asparagus plant in both the larval and adult stages.
  • austro-hungarian — of or relating to the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary (1867–1918)
  • autoregressively — In an autoregressive manner.
  • average adjuster — a person who calculates average claims, esp for marine insurance
  • bastard daughter — an illegitimate daughter
  • beaux' stratagem — a comedy (1707) by George Farquhar.
  • beefsteak fungus — an edible reddish bracket fungus, Fistulina hepatica, that grows esp on oak trees and oozes a bloodlike juice
  • bullying tactics — the use of intimidation to gain one's objective
  • burnet saxifrage — a Eurasian umbelliferous plant of the genus Pimpinella, having umbrella-like clusters of white or pink flowers
  • cleansing tissue — a small piece of absorbent paper, used especially for removing cleansing cream and cosmetics and also serving as a disposable handkerchief.
  • closing argument — In a court case, a lawyer's closing argument is their final speech, in which they give a summary of their case.
  • cocktail sausage — a small sausage served with drinks
  • columbia heights — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • configurationism — Gestalt psychology
  • consenting adult — a male person over the age of sixteen, who may legally engage in homosexual behaviour in private
  • contagious magic — magic that attempts to affect a person through something once connected with him or her, as a shirt once worn by the person or a footprint left in the sand; a branch of sympathetic magic based on the belief that things once in contact are in some way permanently so, however separated physically they may subsequently become.
  • cottage industry — A cottage industry is a small business that is run from someone's home, especially one that involves a craft such as knitting or pottery.
  • counter-strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
  • counterarguments — Plural form of counterargument.
  • counterespionage — Counterespionage is the same as counterintelligence.
  • countersignature — second signature
  • data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
  • departure signal — a piece of equipment beside a railway which indicates to train drivers whether they should depart or not
  • dinosaurs mating — (humour)   The activity said to occur when yet another big iron merger or buy-out occurs; reflects a perception by hackers that these signal another stage in the long, slow dying of the mainframe industry. Also described as "elephants mating": lots of noise and action at a high level, with an eventual outcome in the somewhat distant future. In its glory days of the 1960s, it was "IBM and the Seven Dwarves": Burroughs, Control Data, General Electric, Honeywell, NCR, RCA, and Univac. Early on, RCA sold out to Univac and GE also sold out, and it was "IBM and the BUNCH" (an acronym for Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, and Honeywell) for a while. Honeywell was bought out by Bull. Univac in turn merged with Sperry to form Sperry/Univac, which was later merged (although the employees of Sperry called it a hostile takeover) with Burroughs to form Unisys in 1986 (this was when the phrase "dinosaurs mating" was coined). In 1991 AT&T absorbed NCR, only to spit it out again in 1996. Unisys bought Convergent Technologies in 1988 and later others. More such earth-shaking unions of doomed giants seem inevitable.
  • discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
  • discountenancing — Present participle of discountenance.
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • exchange student — sb who studies abroad
  • father-surrogate — a male who replaces an absent father and becomes an object of attachment.
  • fire regulations — rules intended to make sure that people and property stay safe in the event of a fire
  • flight simulator — a device used in pilot and crew training that provides a cockpit environment and sensations of flight under actual conditions.
  • focused strategy — a business strategy in which an organization divests itself of all but its core activities, using the funds raised to enhance the distinctive abilities that give it an advantage over its rivals
  • four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
  • galactic cluster — a comparatively young, irregularly shaped group of stars, often numbering up to several hundred, and held together by mutual gravitation; usually found along the central plane of the Milky Way and other galaxies.
  • gas liquefaction — Gas liquefaction is the process of refrigerating a gas to a temperature that is below its critical temperature in order to form a liquid.
  • gaudeamus igitur — let us therefore rejoice
  • gaussian integer — a complex number of the form a + bi where a and b are integers.
  • general quarters — a condition of readiness for combat on a warship, during which crew members remain at their battle stations and have guns and ammunition ready for immediate loading.
  • general solution — a solution to a differential equation that contains arbitrary, unevaluated constants.
  • giant's causeway — a large body of basalt, unusual in displaying perfect columnar jointing, exposed on a promontory on the northern coast of Northern Ireland.
  • globular cluster — a comparatively older, spherically symmetrical, compact group of up to a million old stars, held together by mutual gravitation, that are located in the galactic halo and move in giant and highly eccentric orbits around the galactic center.
  • gnu archive site — (body)   The main GNU FTP archive is on gnu.org but copies ("mirrors") of some or all of the files there are also held on many other computers around the world. To avoid overloading gnu.org and the Internet you should FTP files from the machine closest to yours. Look for a directory like /pub/gnu, /mirrors/gnu, /systems/gnu or /archives/gnu.

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