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

  • short sweetening — sugar.
  • shortsightedness — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
  • shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • shrinking violet — a shy, modest, or self-effacing person.
  • signal generator — radio
  • singapore strait — a strait between Singapore Island and the Riau Archipelago at the S end of the Malay Peninsula: shipping channel between the South China Sea and the Malacca Strait. 65 miles (105 km) long and 10 miles (16 km) wide.
  • smooth breathing — a symbol (') used in the writing of Greek to indicate that the initial vowel over which it is placed is unaspirated.
  • social gathering — party, get-together
  • something fierce — desperately, intensely
  • sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
  • speak in tongues — to engage in glossolalia
  • spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
  • speed networking — the practice of trying to form business connections and contacts through meetings at which individuals are given the opportunity to have several conversations of limited duration with strangers
  • spill one's guts — the alimentary canal, especially between the pylorus and the anus, or some portion of it. Compare foregut, midgut, hindgut.
  • spreading factor — a substance, as hyaluronidase, that promotes the diffusion of a material through body tissues
  • staffing officer — someone who recruits, hires, and ensures the interests of staff and employees in an organization
  • stage production — a play or show which is performed on stage
  • stamp collecting — Stamp collecting is the hobby of building up a collection of stamps.
  • steamboat gothic — a florid architectural style suggesting the gingerbread-decorated construction of river boats of the Victorian period.
  • stereoregularity — (of a polymer) the degree to which successive configurations in space along the chain follow a simple rule. Also called tacticity. Compare configuration (def 4).
  • stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
  • stocking stuffer — a small, usually inexpensive gift that is placed with others in a Christmas stocking.
  • storage capacity — amount of room or space
  • storage terminal — A storage terminal is a building or area with large tanks for storing oil, gas, and other petrochemical products.
  • straight shooter — a person who is forthright and upstanding in behavior.
  • string orchestra — an orchestra consisting only of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses
  • summa theologica — a philosophical and theological work (1265–74) by St. Thomas Aquinas, consisting of an exposition of Christian doctrine.
  • sumo (wrestling) — a highly stylized Japanese form of wrestling engaged in by large, extremely heavy men
  • swimming costume — A swimming costume is the same as a swimsuit.
  • syncategorematic — Traditional Logic. of or relating to a word that is part of a categorical proposition but is not a term, as all, some, is.
  • take (to) flight — to run away; flee
  • tangential point — a point at which a geometric line, curve, plane, or curved surface touches another curve or surface but does not intersect it
  • tarragon vinegar — a white vinegar flavoured with the herb tarragon, used in cooking, esp in salad dressings
  • teleconferencing — a business meeting, educational session, etc., conducted among participants in different locations via telecommunications equipment. Compare videoconference.
  • telescopic sight — a telescope mounted on a rifle, etc, used for sighting
  • tertiary college — a college system incorporating the secondary school sixth form and vocational courses
  • the foreign-born — immigrants of a country
  • the herring-pond — the Atlantic Ocean
  • the high country — sheep pastures in the foothills of the Southern Alps, New Zealand
  • the king country — an area in the centre of North Island, New Zealand: home of the King Movement, a nineteenth-century Māori separatist movement
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
  • thermoregulation — the regulation of body temperature.
  • thought disorder — disorganized speech, as flight of ideas or loosening of associations, thought to reflect disorganized thinking and occurring as a symptom of some types of mental illness, as manic disorder or schizophrenia.
  • through the mill — a factory for certain kinds of manufacture, as paper, steel, or textiles.
  • tierra del fuego — a group of islands at the S tip of South America, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan: jointly owned by Argentina and Chile; boundary disputed. 27,476 sq. mi. (71,165 sq. km).
  • tightrope walker — performer who walks on high wire
  • time sovereignty — control by an employee of the use of his or her time, involving flexibility of working hours
  • to lift a finger — If you say that a person does not lift a finger or raise a finger to do something, especially to help someone, you are critical of them because they do nothing.
  • to lose sight of — If you lose sight of an important aspect of something, you no longer pay attention to it because you are worrying about less important things.
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