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

  • storage terminal — A storage terminal is a building or area with large tanks for storing oil, gas, and other petrochemical products.
  • straight shooter — a person who is forthright and upstanding in behavior.
  • string orchestra — an orchestra consisting only of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses
  • stroboradiograph — a stroboscopic radiograph.
  • strongyloidiasis — an intestinal disease caused by infection with the nematode worm Strongyloides stercoralis
  • subcartilaginous — partially or incompletely cartilaginous.
  • subtropical high — one of several highs, as the Azores and Pacific highs, that prevail over the oceans at latitudes of about 30 degrees N and S. Also called subtropical anticyclone. Compare high (def 37).
  • sugar plantation — a large area of land where sugar is grown
  • sulfanilyl group — the para form of the group C 6 H 6 NO 2 S–, derived from sulfanilic acid.
  • sulu archipelago — an island group in the SW Philippines, separating the Sulawesi Sea from the Sulu Sea. 1086 sq. mi. (2813 sq. km). Capital: Jolo.
  • superior general — the superior of an order or congregation.
  • supporting actor — performer: not lead
  • surrogate mother — a person who acts in the place of another person's biological mother.
  • 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.
  • take a page from — to follow the example of; imitate
  • take for granted — to bestow or confer, especially by a formal act: to grant a charter.
  • tarragon vinegar — a white vinegar flavoured with the herb tarragon, used in cooking, esp in salad dressings
  • teachers college — a four-year college offering courses for the training of primary and secondary school teachers and granting the bachelor's degree and often advanced degrees.
  • tertiary college — a college system incorporating the secondary school sixth form and vocational courses
  • teutoburger wald — a chain of wooded hills in Germany, in Westphalia: Romans defeated by German tribes a.d.
  • the gang of four — a radical faction within the Chinese Communist Party that emerged as a political force in the spring of 1976 and was suppressed later that year. Its members, Zhang Chunqiao, Wang Hongwen, Yao Wenyuan, and Jiang Qing, were tried and imprisoned (1981)
  • the great karroo — karroo in S South Africa: c. 350 mi (563 km) long & 2,000 to 3,000 ft (610 to 914 m) high
  • the great powers — the states or nations of the world with the most economic, political and military strength
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • the orange order — a society founded in Ireland (1795) to uphold the Protestant religion, the Protestant dynasty, and the Protestant constitution
  • the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
  • the scots guards — a regiment of Guards Division of the British Army which dates back to 1642
  • there you are/go — You say 'there you are' or 'there you go' when you are offering something to someone.
  • thermoregulation — the regulation of body temperature.
  • tierra del fuego — a group of islands at the S tip of South America, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan: jointly owned by Argentina and Chile; boundary disputed. 27,476 sq. mi. (71,165 sq. km).
  • tightrope walker — performer who walks on high wire
  • to come a gutzer — to make an error or blunder
  • to get bad press — If someone or something gets bad press, they are criticized, especially in the newspapers, on television, or on radio. If they get good press, they are praised.
  • to get your oats — to have sexual intercourse regularly
  • 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.
  • toing and froing — going back and forth
  • top-of-the-range — de luxe, expensive
  • tracking station — a facility equipped with instrumentation for following the flight path of, communicating with, and collecting data from a rocket or spacecraft.
  • train of thought — sequence of ideas
  • 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
  • trick photograph — a photograph that creates an illusion
  • trucking company — a company that transports goods by lorry
  • vapor channeling — Vapor channeling exists when vapor flow is distributed in an unequal way in a distillation vessel or stage.
  • vectorcardiogram — the graphic record produced by vectorcardiography.
  • vegetable marrow — any of various summer squashes, as the cocozelle and zucchini.
  • vegetable oyster — salsify.
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