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16-letter words containing a, i, r, t, n, s

  • ft share indexes — any of a number of share indexes published by the Financial Times to reflect various aspects of stock exchange prices
  • garment district — an area in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City, including portions of Seventh Avenue and Broadway between 34th and 40th Streets and the streets intersecting them, that contains many factories, showrooms, etc., related to the design, manufacture, and wholesale distribution of clothing.
  • gastro-resistant — A gastro-resistant tablet is designed to temporarily withstand attack by stomach acid.
  • gastrointestinal — of, relating to, or affecting the stomach and intestines.
  • gaussian integer — a complex number of the form a + bi where a and b are integers.
  • 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.
  • generalisability — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizability.
  • generation jones — members of the generation of people born in the Western world between the mid-1950s and the mid-1960s
  • 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.
  • goods in transit — articles that are in the process of being carried by vehicle from one place to another
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • greater antilles — See under Antilles.
  • hammerstein (ii) — Oscar1895-1960; U.S. librettist & lyricist of musical comedies
  • hamstring injury — an instance of physical damage to a person's hamstring
  • 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.
  • harvey firestone — Harvey Samuel, 1868–1938, U.S. industrialist and rubber manufacturer.
  • haversian system — a Haversian canal and the series of concentric bony plates surrounding it.
  • 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
  • health insurance — insurance that compensates the insured for expenses or loss incurred for medical reasons, as through illness or hospitalization.
  • heat prostration — heat exhaustion.
  • hematocrystallin — (biology, archaic) hemoglobin.
  • herpes genitalis — genital herpes.
  • historical novel — a novel within the genre of historical fiction.
  • hit one's straps — to achieve one's full potential or become fully effective
  • horizon distance — Television. the distance of the farthest point on the earth's surface visible from a transmitting antenna.
  • hospital corners — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
  • housing shortage — a deficiency or lack in the number of houses needed to accommodate the population of an area
  • hypermasculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • hyperstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • hypervitaminosis — an abnormal condition caused by an excessive intake of vitamins.
  • hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
  • icositetrahedron — a solid figure having 24 faces.
  • if it wasn't for — If you talk about what would happen if it wasn't for someone or something, you mean that they are the only thing that is preventing it from happening.
  • immersion heater — a small electric coil used to heat a liquid, as a cup of water, in which it is immersed.
  • immigration laws — regulations on incoming foreigners
  • immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
  • impact extrusion — an extrusion process in which a slug of cold metal in a shallow die cavity is formed by the action of a rapidly moving punch that forces the metal through the die or back around the punch.
  • impenetrableness — The quality of being impenetrable.
  • in a brown study — in a reverie or daydream
  • in general terms — generally, approximately
  • in loco parentis — in the place or role of a parent.
  • in the worst way — bad or ill in the highest, greatest, or most extreme degree: the worst person.
  • inarticulateness — lacking the ability to express oneself, especially in clear and effective speech: an inarticulate public speaker.
  • indescribability — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being indescribable.
  • indian wrestling — arm wrestling
  • indirect address — the address in a storage location that contains the actual machine address of a data item or of other information, as the next instruction, or that contains another indirect address.
  • indiscriminantly — Misspelling of indiscriminately.
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