16-letter words containing d, i, s, t, r
- frederic mistral — Frédéric [frey-dey-reek] /freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, French Provençal poet: Nobel prize 1904.
- friendly society — law: mutual group providing benefits
- frontier dispute — a conflict concerning a frontier between countries and which usually involves those countries
- ft share indexes — any of a number of share indexes published by the Financial Times to reflect various aspects of stock exchange prices
- garfield heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- 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.
- gaudeamus igitur — let us therefore rejoice
- gender selection — choosing the sex of a baby
- genetic disorder — disease caused by abnormal DNA
- geostrophic wind — a wind whose velocity and direction are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
- 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.
- graphics adapter — graphics adaptor
- graphics adaptor — (hardware, graphics) (Or "graphics adapter", "graphics card", "video adaptor", etc.) A circuit board fitted to a computer, especially an IBM PC, containing the necessary video memory and other electronics to provide a bitmap display. Adaptors vary in the resolution (number of pixels) and number of colours they can display, and in the refresh rate they support. These parameters are also limited by the monitor to which the adaptor is connected. A number of such display standards, e.g. SVGA, have become common and different software requires or supports different sets.
- 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.
- gross misconduct — a proven crime in connection with employment that is serious enough to require dismissal
- 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.
- headmistressship — (rare) Alternative form of headmistress-ship.
- hit one's stride — to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance.
- horizon distance — Television. the distance of the farthest point on the earth's surface visible from a transmitting antenna.
- horseradish tree — a tropical tree, Moringa pterygosperma, having fragrant white flowers and seeds yielding a commercially useful oil.
- hydrostatic head — The hydrostatic head is the vertical height of a column of fluid.
- hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
- icositetrahedron — a solid figure having 24 faces.
- immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
- in a brown study — in a reverie or daydream
- 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.
- indiscernibility — The state or characteristic of being indiscernible; inability to be observed.
- indiscriminantly — Misspelling of indiscriminately.
- indiscriminately — not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
- indiscriminating — not discriminating.
- indiscrimination — an act or instance of not discriminating.
- indiscriminative — Making no distinction; not discriminating.
- indo-europeanist — a linguist specializing in the study, especially the comparative study, of the Indo-European languages.
- induction course — training for new job
- induction stroke — The induction stroke is the stroke of the piston in an internal combustion engine in which working fluid is drawn into the cylinder.
- industrial union — a labor union composed of workers in various trades and crafts within one industry.
- industrial waste — waste materials left over from a manufacturing process in industrial buildings such as factories and mines
- information desk — helpdesk, information point
- informed consent — a patient's consent to a medical or surgical procedure or to participation in a clinical study after being properly advised of the relevant medical facts and the risks involved.
- inter-divisional — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- interdependences — Plural form of interdependence.
- interdimensional — Between dimensions.
- intermediateness — The condition of being intermediate.
- internet address — IP address
- interrelatedness — reciprocally or mutually related: an interrelated series of experiments.
- intradermal test — a test for immunity or allergy to a particular antigen by observing the local reaction following injection of a small amount of the antigen into the skin.