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16-letter words containing g, i, l, t, s

  • disclosing agent — a vegetable dye, administered as a liquid or in tablet form (disclosing tablet), that stains plaque, making it readily apparent on the teeth
  • discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
  • discriminatingly — With discrimination.
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • earnings-related — An earnings-related payment or benefit provides higher or lower payments according to the amount a person was earning while working.
  • east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • elective surgery — when someone chooses to have an operation which is not absolutely medically necessary
  • electrolytic gas — a mixture of two parts of hydrogen and one part of oxygen by volume, formed by the electrolysis of water
  • electromagnetics — Electricity and magnetism, collectively, as a field of study.
  • electromagnetism — The interaction of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
  • endocrinologists — Plural form of endocrinologist.
  • english heritage — an organization, partly funded by government aid, that looks after ancient monuments and historic buildings in England
  • englishman's tie — a type of knot for tying together heavy ropes
  • eschatologically — In an eschatological manner.
  • ethnic cleansing — genocide
  • ethnolinguistics — The field of linguistic anthropology which studies the language of a specific ethnic group.
  • evangelistically — In an evangelistic manner.
  • fantail goldfish — an artificially bred, hardy variety of goldfish, usually oval-shaped and deep orange or calico, with a deeply cleft, four-lobed tail held in line with the body.
  • farmington hills — a city in SE Michigan.
  • fast of gedaliah — Tzom Gedaliah.
  • federal register — a bulletin, published daily by the U.S. federal government, containing the schedule of hearings before Congressional and federal agency committees, together with orders, proclamations, etc., released by the executive branch of the government.
  • fire regulations — rules intended to make sure that people and property stay safe in the event of a fire
  • flabbergastation — (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
  • flabbergastingly — Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
  • flibbertigibbets — Plural form of flibbertigibbet.
  • flight simulator — a device used in pilot and crew training that provides a cockpit environment and sensations of flight under actual conditions.
  • folk linguistics — speculation and popular views about language.
  • galactic cluster — a comparatively young, irregularly shaped group of stars, often numbering up to several hundred, and held together by mutual gravitation; usually found along the central plane of the Milky Way and other galaxies.
  • garfield heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • gas liquefaction — Gas liquefaction is the process of refrigerating a gas to a temperature that is below its critical temperature in order to form a liquid.
  • gastrointestinal — of, relating to, or affecting the stomach and intestines.
  • gemini telescope — either of two identical 8-metre telescopes for optical and near-infrared observations built by an international consortium. Gemini North is in Hawaii at an altitude of 4200 m on Mauna Kea and Gemini South is in Chile at 2715 m on Cerro Pachón
  • gender selection — choosing the sex of a baby
  • general hospital — A general hospital is a hospital that does not specialize in the treatment of particular illnesses or patients.
  • general solution — a solution to a differential equation that contains arbitrary, unevaluated constants.
  • generalisability — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizability.
  • geochronologists — Plural form of geochronologist.
  • gilt-edged stock — government stock on which interest payments will certainly be met and that will certainly be repaid at par on the due date
  • girls' night out — an evening spent outside of the home by a group of women
  • give sb the slip — If you give someone the slip, you escape from them when they are following you or watching you.
  • glendale heights — a city in NE Illinois.
  • glove anesthesia — loss of sensation in the hand
  • 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.
  • goldsmith beetle — a brilliant golden scarabaeid beetle, Cetonia aurata, of Europe.
  • goosefoot family — formerly, the plant family Chenopodiaceae, characterized by often weedy herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually alternate leaves, small and inconspicuous flowers, and tiny, dry fruit, and including the beet, glasswort, goosefoot, Russian thistle, saltbush, and spinach; now part of the amaranth family, Amaranthaceae.
  • gossip columnist — a person who writes a gossip column
  • 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.
  • greater antilles — See under Antilles.
  • hailing distance — the distance within which the human voice can be heard: They sailed within hailing distance of the island.
  • hanseatic league — a medieval league of towns of northern Germany and adjacent countries for the promotion and protection of commerce.
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