16-letter words containing g, e, d, i, t
- hacienda heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- hailing distance — the distance within which the human voice can be heard: They sailed within hailing distance of the island.
- hamming distance — (data) The minimum number of bits that must be changed in order to convert one bit string into another. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming.
- have a good time — enjoy yourself, have fun
- headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
- high court judge — a judge who sits in the High Court
- high-speed steel — an especially hard, heat-resistant steel for use in lathe tools and for other applications involving high friction and wear.
- higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
- household knight — bachelor (def 5).
- household-knight — an unmarried man.
- indefatigability — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
- indian wrestling — arm wrestling
- indigestibleness — The quality of being indigestible.
- induced topology — a topology of a subset of a topological space, obtained by intersecting the subset with every open set in the topology of the space.
- interlaced image — progressive coding
- italian dressing — a strongly flavored vinaigrette for salads, containing garlic, oregano, red peppers, etc.
- kentucky windage — a method of correcting for windage, gravity, etc., by aiming a weapon to one side of the target instead of by adjusting the sights.
- knowledgeability — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- landed immigrant — foreigner: permanent resident
- leading question — a question so worded as to suggest the proper or desired answer.
- led page printer — LED printer
- 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.
- lightheartedness — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
- like cat and dog — quarrelling savagely
- listening device — a device used to overhear, record, or monitor speech
- little englander — an English person who believes the best interests of Britain are served by attention to Britain itself, rather than to the concerns of the empire.
- live on the edge — take risks
- 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.
- long-established — having a long history; old
- market gardening — Chiefly British. truck farm.
- mayfield heights — a city in N Ohio, near Cleveland.
- message digest 5 — (messaging) The message digest function defined in RFC 1321.
- methodologically — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
- middle stone age — the Mesolithic period.
- misunderstanding — failure to understand correctly; mistake as to meaning or intent.
- mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
- multiplepoinding — an action to determine the division of a property or fund between several claimants, brought by or on behalf of the present holder
- nightingale ward — a long hospital ward with beds on either side and the nurses' station in the middle
- 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.
- non-debilitating — to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely.
- north ridgeville — a town in N Ohio.
- 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.
- oligonucleotides — Plural form of oligonucleotide.
- operating budget — money allocated to a project
- 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.
- passage to india — a novel (1924) by E. M. Forster.
- phagocytic index — the average number of bacteria ingested per phagocyte in an incubated mixture of bacteria, phagocytes, and blood serum: used in determining the opsonic index.