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16-letter words containing e, i, d, o, g, r

  • hydrogen cyanide — a colorless poisonous gas, HCN, having a bitter almondlike odor: in aqueous solution it forms hydrocyanic acid.
  • hydrogen sulfide — a colorless, flammable, water-soluble, cumulatively poisonous gas, H 2 S, having the odor of rotten eggs: used chiefly in the manufacture of chemicals, in metallurgy, and as a reagent in laboratory analysis.
  • hydrologic cycle — the natural sequence through which water passes into the atmosphere as water vapor, precipitates to earth in liquid or solid form, and ultimately returns to the atmosphere through evaporation.
  • hyperandrogenism — (medicine) An abnormally high production of androgens.
  • in working order — fully functioning
  • ironbridge gorge — a gorge formed by the river Severn in Shropshire; named after the Iron Bridge (1779), the first iron bridge of its kind in the world, now a monument to the Industrial Revolution
  • karadeniz bogazi — Bosporus
  • keyword indexing — the process of constructing or compiling an index to a document or other item by using keywords that describe the item.
  • kingdom of arles — a kingdom in SE France which had dissolved by 1378: known as the Kingdom of Burgundy until about 1200
  • legal dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the various branches of the legal profession, as civil law, criminal law, and corporate law. A comprehensive legal dictionary adds to its body of standard English entries many words and phrases that have made their way into modern legal practice from law French and Latin and are rarely found in a general English monolingual dictionary. Such a specialized dictionary is useful not only for law students and for attorneys themselves, but for members of the lay public who require legal services. Legal dictionaries published in print follow the normal practice of sorting entry terms alphabetically, while electronic dictionaries, such as the online Dictionary of Law on Dictionary.com, allow direct, immediate access to a search term.
  • liebig condenser — a laboratory condenser consisting of a glass tube surrounded by a glass envelope through which cooling water flows
  • lloyd's register — a publication, issued annually by Lloyd's, consisting of a list of all of the world's seagoing vessels and including such information as their age, tonnage, and classification.
  • missionary ridge — a ridge in NW Georgia and SE Tennessee: Civil War battle 1863.
  • money laundering — Money laundering is the crime of processing stolen money through a legitimate business or sending it abroad to a foreign bank, to hide the fact that the money was illegally obtained.
  • mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
  • moulding process — the process of shaping or compacting a material into a frame or mould
  • nitrogen dioxide — a reddish-brown, highly poisonous gas, NO 2 , used as an intermediate in the manufacture of nitric and sulfuric acids, and as a nitrating and oxidizing agent; a major air pollutant from the exhaust of internal combustion engines that are not fitted with pollution control devices.
  • nitrogen mustard — any of the class of poisonous, blistering compounds, as C 5 H 1 1 Cl 2 N, analogous in composition to mustard gas but containing nitrogen instead of sulfur: used in the treatment of cancer and similar diseases; mechlorethamine.
  • no hard feelings — If you say ' no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
  • nonbiodegradable — Not biodegradable.
  • noncorresponding — That does not correspond (to something else).
  • north ridgeville — a town in N Ohio.
  • norwegian buhund — a slightly-built medium-sized dog of a breed with erect pointed ears and a short thick tail carried curled over its back
  • objective danger — a danger, such as a stone fall or avalanche, to which climbing skill is irrelevant
  • odds are against — If you say that the odds are against something or someone, you mean that they are unlikely to succeed.
  • old-girl network — an association among women that is comparable to or modeled on an old-boy network.
  • oligodendroglial — Of or pertaining to the oligodendroglia.
  • oligosaccharides — Plural form of oligosaccharide.
  • open-die forging — Open-die forging is a forging process in which the flow of metal is not kept completely in the die.
  • operating budget — money allocated to a project
  • organized labour — labour carried out by workers in trade unions, or the workers themselves
  • partial ordering — a relation defined on a set, having the properties that each element is in relation to itself, the relation is transitive, and if two elements are in relation to each other, the two elements are equal.
  • picture moulding — the edge around a framed picture
  • point de hongrie — flame stitch.
  • portuguese india — a former Portuguese overseas territory on the W coast of India, consisting of the districts of Gôa, Daman, and Diu: annexed by India December 1961. Capital: Gôa.
  • posigrade rocket — an auxiliary rocket used to separate the sections of a multistage rocket, fired in the direction of flight.
  • praetorian guard — the bodyguard of a military commander, especially the imperial guard stationed in Rome.
  • prestidigitation — sleight of hand; legerdemain.
  • program director — a chief executive responsible for selecting and scheduling programs.
  • programme editor — someone responsible for editing, overseeing and selecting the content of radio or television programmes
  • project guardian — (project, security)   A project which grew out of the ARPA support for Multics and the sale of Multics systems to the US Air Force. The USAF wanted a system that could be used to handle more than one security classification of data at a time. They contracted with Honeywell and MITRE Corporation to figure out how to do this. Project Guardian led to the creation of the Access Isolation Mechanism, the forerunner of the B2 labeling and star property support in Multics. The DoD Orange Book was influenced by the experience in building secure systems gained in Project Guardian.
  • prolonged-action — sustained-release.
  • pseudo-religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
  • radio evangelist — a Christian minister who devotes time to preaching on the radio
  • rearguard action — an action fought by a rearguard
  • recording studio — place where music is recorded
  • regent bowerbird — a bowerbird, Sericulus chrysocephalus, the males of which have deep black plumage with brilliant golden head, neck, and wing patches and build elaborate bowers.
  • religious leader — head of a church or order
  • revised algol 60 — ALGOL 60 Revised
  • revolving credit — credit automatically available up to a predetermined limit while payments are periodically made. Compare credit line (def 2).
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