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16-letter words containing g, l, u

  • flight simulator — a device used in pilot and crew training that provides a cockpit environment and sensations of flight under actual conditions.
  • flowering quince — any shrub belonging to the genus Chaenomeles, of the rose family, native to eastern Asia, having showy, waxy flowers and a quincelike fruit, grown widely as an ornamental.
  • flutter tonguing — a method of sounding a wind instrument, esp the flute, with a rolling movement of the tongue
  • flying ambulance — an aircraft used to take sick or injured people to hospital
  • folk linguistics — speculation and popular views about language.
  • foot fault judge — on official on the baseline who is responsible for calling foot faults
  • foreign language — language not one's mother tongue
  • four-deal bridge — a version of bridge in which four hands only are played, the players then cutting for new partners
  • functional group — a group of atoms responsible for the characteristic behavior of the class of compounds in which the group occurs, as the hydroxyl group in alcohols.
  • 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.
  • galactic equator — the great circle on the celestial sphere that is equidistant from the galactic poles, being inclined approximately 62° to the celestial equator and lying about one degree north of the center line of the Milky Way.
  • gallium arsenide — a crystalline and highly toxic semiconductor, GaAs, used in light-emitting diodes, lasers, and electronic devices.
  • garlic mushrooms — mushrooms, often pan-fried, cooked with garlic
  • 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.
  • gay-lussac's law — the principle that, for relatively low pressures, the density of an ideal gas at constant pressure varies inversely with the absolute temperature of the gas.
  • general factotum — a person who does all sorts of jobs; general assistant
  • general quarters — a condition of readiness for combat on a warship, during which crew members remain at their battle stations and have guns and ammunition ready for immediate loading.
  • general solution — a solution to a differential equation that contains arbitrary, unevaluated constants.
  • gentlemen's club — a private social club whose members were traditionally aristocratic males
  • george m pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
  • get into trouble — be punished for wrongdoing
  • get the hell out — If you tell someone to get the hell out of a place, you are telling them angrily or emphatically to leave that place immediately.
  • get the lead out — Chemistry. a heavy, comparatively soft, malleable, bluish-gray metal, sometimes found in its natural state but usually combined as a sulfide, especially in galena. Symbol: Pb; atomic weight: 207.19; atomic number: 82; specific gravity: 11.34 at 20°C.
  • gingerbread plum — a tree, Neocarya macrophylla, of western Africa, bearing a large, edible, starchy fruit.
  • girls' night out — an evening spent outside of the home by a group of women
  • global community — the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent
  • globular cluster — a comparatively older, spherically symmetrical, compact group of up to a million old stars, held together by mutual gravitation, that are located in the galactic halo and move in giant and highly eccentric orbits around the galactic center.
  • glory-of-the-sun — a bulbous, Chilean plant, Leucocoryne ixioides, of the amaryllis family, having fragrant, white or blue flowers.
  • go for your life — an expression of encouragement
  • go out on a limb — say sth daring
  • gold-of-pleasure — a yellow-flowered Eurasian plant, Camelina sativa, widespread as a weed, esp in flax fields, and formerly cultivated for its oil-rich seeds: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • golden delicious — a bright yellow type of Delicious apple.
  • golden handcuffs — payments deferred over a number of years that induce a person to stay with a particular company or in a particular job
  • golden parachute — an employment contract or agreement guaranteeing a key executive of a company substantial severance pay and other financial benefits in the event of job loss caused by the company's being sold or merged.
  • gonzález márquez — Felipe (feˈlipe). born 1942, Spanish statesman; prime minister of Spain (1982–96)
  • gossip columnist — a person who writes a gossip column
  • 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
  • graphic language — For specifying graphic operations.
  • great blue heron — a large American heron, Ardea herodias, having bluish-gray plumage.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • grenade launcher — a device attached to the muzzle of a rifle, permitting the firing of rifle grenades.
  • grounded neutral — Grounded neutral is the situation in which the neutral wire of an electrical supply system is connected to ground.
  • gulf of honduras — an inlet of the Caribbean, on the coasts of Honduras, Guatemala, and Belize
  • gulf of liaodong — the N part of the Gulf of Chihli, west of the Liaodong Peninsula
  • gulf of martaban — an inlet of the Bay of Bengal in Myanmar
  • gulf of san blas — an inlet of the Caribbean on the N coast of Panama
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