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

  • self-designation — a name taken for oneself or one's own people
  • self-indignation — strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base; righteous anger.
  • self-integration — an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.
  • self-proclaiming — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • self-propagating — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
  • self-subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • sex-and-shopping — (of a novel) belonging to a genre of novel in which the central character, a woman, has a number of sexual encounters, and the author mentions the name of many up-market products
  • shoestring catch — a catch of a ball on the fly, made close to the ground while running.
  • shooting gallery — a place equipped with targets and used for practice in shooting.
  • shopping channel — television station used to sell goods
  • shopping village — a shopping centre that designed to look like a village
  • shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • signal generator — radio
  • simon boccanegra — an opera (1857) by Giuseppe Verdi.
  • singapore strait — a strait between Singapore Island and the Riau Archipelago at the S end of the Malay Peninsula: shipping channel between the South China Sea and the Malacca Strait. 65 miles (105 km) long and 10 miles (16 km) wide.
  • single occupancy — a type of travel accommodation, as at a hotel, for one person in a room.
  • smooth breathing — a symbol (') used in the writing of Greek to indicate that the initial vowel over which it is placed is unaspirated.
  • social gathering — party, get-together
  • solemn high mass — a Mass sung with the assistance of a deacon and subdeacon.
  • sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
  • sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
  • speak in tongues — to engage in glossolalia
  • spreading factor — a substance, as hyaluronidase, that promotes the diffusion of a material through body tissues
  • spring snowflake — a European amaryllidaceous plant, Leucojum vernum, with white nodding bell-shaped flowers
  • staffing officer — someone who recruits, hires, and ensures the interests of staff and employees in an organization
  • stage production — a play or show which is performed on stage
  • stamp collecting — Stamp collecting is the hobby of building up a collection of stamps.
  • stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
  • storage terminal — A storage terminal is a building or area with large tanks for storing oil, gas, and other petrochemical products.
  • string orchestra — an orchestra consisting only of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses
  • superior general — the superior of an order or congregation.
  • swedenborgianism — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
  • syncategorematic — Traditional Logic. of or relating to a word that is part of a categorical proposition but is not a term, as all, some, is.
  • tangential point — a point at which a geometric line, curve, plane, or curved surface touches another curve or surface but does not intersect it
  • tarragon vinegar — a white vinegar flavoured with the herb tarragon, used in cooking, esp in salad dressings
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
  • thermoregulation — the regulation of body temperature.
  • to lift a finger — If you say that a person does not lift a finger or raise a finger to do something, especially to help someone, you are critical of them because they do nothing.
  • training college — a school providing training for a special field or profession.
  • training officer — a person whose job is to teach people the skills they need for a particular field or profession
  • transfer molding — a method of molding thermosetting plastic in which the plastic enters a closed mold from an adjoining chamber in which it has been softened.
  • travelling clock — a small clock taken by someone who is travelling
  • unapologetically — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
  • vapor channeling — Vapor channeling exists when vapor flow is distributed in an unequal way in a distillation vessel or stage.
  • velcro fastening — a fastening made of Velcro
  • ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
  • washington state — the state of Washington, especially as distinguished from Washington, D.C.
  • white propaganda — propaganda that comes from the source it claims to come from
  • woody nightshade — bittersweet (def 3).
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