16-letter words containing e, n, u, t
- graduate student — postgraduate-level student
- granulated paper — paper with a roughened surface
- granulated sugar — a coarsely ground white sugar, widely used as a sweetener.
- granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
- great blue heron — a large American heron, Ardea herodias, having bluish-gray plumage.
- great-granduncle — an uncle of one's grandfather or grandmother.
- green revolution — an increase in food production, especially in underdeveloped and developing nations, through the introduction of high-yield crop varieties and application of modern agricultural techniques.
- grind your teeth — If you grind your teeth, you rub your upper and lower teeth together as though you are chewing something.
- ground substance — Also called matrix. the homogeneous substance in which the fibers and cells of connective tissue are embedded.
- grounded neutral — Grounded neutral is the situation in which the neutral wire of an electrical supply system is connected to ground.
- group identifier — (operating system) (gid) A unique number, between 0 an 32767, identifying a set of users under Unix. Gids are found in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group databases (or their NIS equivalents) and one is also associated with each file, indicating the group to which its group permissions apply.
- growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
- guaranteed stock — stock for which dividends are guaranteed by a company other than the one issuing the stock.
- gunnery sergeant — a noncommissioned officer ranking above a staff sergeant and below a first or master sergeant.
- gutierrez najera — Manuel [mah-nwel] /mɑˈnwɛl/ (Show IPA), ("El Duque Job") 1859–95, Mexican poet, short-story writer, and editor.
- guy fawkes night — In Britain, Guy Fawkes Night is the evening of 5th November, when many people have parties with bonfires and fireworks. It began as a way of remembering the attempt by Guy Fawkes to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. Guy Fawkes Night is often referred to as 'Bonfire Night'.
- hanseatic league — a medieval league of towns of northern Germany and adjacent countries for the promotion and protection of commerce.
- has the x nature — (From Zen Buddhist koans of the form "Does an X have the Buddha-nature?") Common hacker construction for "is an X", used for humorous emphasis. "Anyone who can't even use a program with on-screen help embedded in it truly has the loser nature!" See also the X that can be Y is not the true X.
- headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
- health education — education that aims to give people the information they need to live healthily
- health insurance — insurance that compensates the insured for expenses or loss incurred for medical reasons, as through illness or hospitalization.
- health-conscious — having an active interest in one's health
- heat of solution — the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a substance dissolves completely in a large volume of solvent
- hemagglutinating — That causes hemagglutination.
- hemagglutination — the clumping of red blood cells.
- hemopneumothorax — (medicine) pneumothorax and hemothorax occurring together.
- heterosuggestion — Suggestion from outside.
- higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
- holier-than-thou — obnoxiously pious; sanctimonious; self-righteous.
- home-equity loan — a loan that uses equity in the borrower's home as collateral.
- houphouet-boigny — Félix [French fey-leeks] /French feɪˈliks/ (Show IPA), 1905–1993, Ivory Coast political leader: president 1960–93.
- household knight — bachelor (def 5).
- household-knight — an unmarried man.
- housing shortage — a deficiency or lack in the number of houses needed to accommodate the population of an area
- humboldt current — a cold Pacific Ocean current flowing N along the coasts of Chile and Peru.
- hunt the slipper — a children's game in which the players look for a hidden slipper or other object, such as a thimble (hunt the thimble)
- hunt the thimble — a children's game in which the players look for a hidden thimble
- huntington beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
- hydrated alumina — a crystalline, water-insoluble powder, Al(OH) 3 or Al 2 O 3 ⋅3H 2 O, obtained chiefly from bauxite: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, and printing inks, in dyeing, and in medicine as an antacid and in the treatment of ulcers.
- hydration number — the number of molecules of water with which an ion can combine in an aqueous solution of given concentration.
- hydraulic cement — cement that can solidify under water.
- hyperconjugation — (organic chemistry) A weak form of conjugation in which single bonds interact with a conjugated system.
- 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.
- image consultant — imagemaker.
- immelmann (turn) — a maneuver in which an airplane is half looped to an upside-down position and then half rolled back to normal, upright flight: used to gain altitude while reversing direction
- immunocompetence — having the potential for immunologic response; capable of developing immunity after exposure to antigen.
- immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
- immunohematology — the study of blood and blood-forming tissue in relation to the immune response.
- immunoregulation — (immunology) The control of immune responses between lymphocytes and macrophages.