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

go for your life — an expression of encouragement
go off the rails — If someone goes off the rails, they start to behave in a way that other people think is unacceptable or very strange, for example they start taking drugs or breaking the law.
go over the hill — a natural elevation of the earth's surface, smaller than a mountain.
go with the turf — to be an unavoidable part of a particular situation or process
go-faster stripe — a decorative line, intended to be suggestive of high speed, on the bodywork of a car
gold certificate — a former U.S. paper currency issued by the federal government for circulation from 1865 to 1933, equal to and redeemable for gold to a stated value.
golden rain tree — an ornamental tree, Koelreuteria paniculata, of the soapberry family, native to China and adjacent areas, having pinnate leaves, large clusters of fragrant yellow flowers, and inflated pods containing black seeds used as beads.
golden retriever — one of an English breed of retrievers having a thick, flat or wavy, golden coat.
government issue — (often initial capital letter) issued or supplied by the government or one of its agencies.
governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
governors island — an island in New York Bay at the S end of the East River: U.S. military post. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
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.
granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
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.
great soil group — according to a system of classification that originated in Russia, any of several broad groups of soils with common characteristics usually associated with particular climates and vegetation types.
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.
greyhound racing — a sport in which a mechanically propelled dummy hare is pursued by greyhounds around a race track
grid declination — the angular difference between true north and grid north on a map
grind your teeth — If you grind your teeth, you rub your upper and lower teeth together as though you are chewing something.
grit one's teeth — abrasive particles or granules, as of sand or other small, coarse impurities found in the air, food, water, etc.
gross negligence — extreme carelessness that shows wilful or reckless disregard for the consequences to the safety or property of another
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 potential — capability of expanding
hanging wardrobe — a wardrobe containing a rail with a large amount of space underneath, so that clothes can be hung on hangers placed onto the rail
here we go again — You use expressions such as 'here we go' and 'here we go again' in order to indicate that something is happening again in the way that you expected, especially something unpleasant.
herod agrippa ii — died ?93 ad, king of territories in N Palestine (50–?93 ad). He presided (60) at the trial of Saint Paul and sided with the Roman authorities in the Jewish rebellion of 66
herringbone bond — a brickwork bond in which the exposed brickwork is bonded to the heart of the wall by concealed courses of bricks laid diagonally to the faces of the wall in a herringbone pattern, with the end of each brick butting against the side of the adjoining brick; a form of raking bond.
herringbone gear — a helical gear having teeth that lie on the pitch cylinder in a V -shaped form so that one half of each tooth is on a right-handed helix and the other half on a left-handed helix.
heterosuggestion — Suggestion from outside.
hieroglyphically — In hieroglyphics.
high court judge — a judge who sits in the High Court
high memory area — (storage) (HMA) The first 64 kilobytes (minus 16 byte) of the extended memory on an IBM PC. By a strange design glitch the Intel 80x86 processors can actually address 17*64 kbyte minus 16 byte of memory (from 0000:0000 to ffff:ffff) in real mode. In the Intel 8086 and Intel 8088 processors, unable to handle more than 1 megabyte of memory, addressing wrapped around, that is, address ffff:0010 was equivalent to 0000:0000. For compatibility reasons, later processors still wrapped around by default, but this feature could be switched off. Special programs called A20 handlers can control the addressing mode dynamically, thereby allowing programs to load themselves into the 1024--1088 kbyte region and run in real mode. From version 5.0 parts of MS-DOS can be loaded into HMA as well freeing up to 46 kbytes of conventional memory.
high-compression — of a modern type of internal-combustion engine designed so that the fuel mixture is compressed into a smaller cylinder space, resulting in more pressure on the pistons and more power
high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
high/great hopes — If you have high hopes or great hopes that something will happen, you are confident that it will happen.
higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
historiographies — Plural form of historiography.
homeric laughter — loud, hearty laughter, as of the gods.
honeymoon bridge — any of several varieties of bridge for two players.
horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
horsehair fungus — an edible white, striated, umbrella-capped mushroom, Marasmius rotula, commonly found in eastern North America.
horsetail agaric — the shaggy-mane.
hourglass figure — the shape of a woman who is well-proportioned and has a small waist
housing shortage — a deficiency or lack in the number of houses needed to accommodate the population of an area
hydrogen bromide — a colorless gas, HBr, having a pungent odor: the anhydride of hydrobromic acid.
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.
hyperconjugation — (organic chemistry) A weak form of conjugation in which single bonds interact with a conjugated system.

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