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16-letter words containing g, o, l, f, i

  • isoplastic graft — syngraft.
  • junior flyweight — a boxer weighing up to 108 pounds (48.6 kg), between minimumweight and flyweight.
  • king of the hill — a game in which each player attempts to climb to the top of some point, as a mound of earth, and to prevent all others from pushing or pulling him or her off the top.
  • kingdom of arles — a kingdom in SE France which had dissolved by 1378: known as the Kingdom of Burgundy until about 1200
  • knights of labor — a secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
  • knights of malta — the order of Hospitalers.
  • legion of honour — an order for civil or military merit instituted by Napoleon in France in 1802
  • lignin sulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
  • lissajous figure — the series of plane curves traced by an object executing two mutually perpendicular harmonic motions.
  • milk of magnesia — a milky white suspension in water of magnesium hydroxide, Mg (OH) 2 , used as an antacid or laxative.
  • montgomery clift — Montgomery, 1920–66, U.S. actor.
  • no hard feelings — If you say ' no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
  • peregrine falcon — a globally distributed falcon, Falco peregrinus, much used in falconry because of its swift flight: several subspecies are endangered.
  • play off against — If you play people off against each other, you make them compete or argue, so that you gain some advantage.
  • point of sailing — the bearing of a sailing vessel, considered with relation to the direction of the wind.
  • racial profiling — the use of personal characteristics or behavior patterns to make generalizations about a person, as in gender profiling.
  • releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
  • robin goodfellow — Puck (def 1).
  • rolling friction — frictional resistance to rotation or energy losses in rolling bearings
  • seat of learning — People sometimes refer to a university or a similar institution as a seat of learning.
  • self-degradation — the act of degrading.
  • self-denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
  • self-designation — a name taken for oneself or one's own people
  • self-indignation — strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base; righteous anger.
  • self-integration — an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.
  • self-proclaiming — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • self-pronouncing — having the pronunciation indicated, especially by diacritical marks added on original spellings rather than by phonetic symbols: a self-pronouncing dictionary.
  • self-propagating — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
  • self-questioning — review or scrutiny of one's own motives or behavior.
  • self-reproducing — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • self-sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
  • self-subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
  • sliding friction — frictional resistance to relative movement of surfaces on loaded contact
  • spring snowflake — a European amaryllidaceous plant, Leucojum vernum, with white nodding bell-shaped flowers
  • sulfanilyl group — the para form of the group C 6 H 6 NO 2 S–, derived from sulfanilic acid.
  • take (to) flight — to run away; flee
  • teleconferencing — a business meeting, educational session, etc., conducted among participants in different locations via telecommunications equipment. Compare videoconference.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • transfer molding — a method of molding thermosetting plastic in which the plastic enters a closed mold from an adjoining chamber in which it has been softened.
  • velcro fastening — a fastening made of Velcro
  • well-functioning — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • wrongful trading — the act of allowing a company to continue trading when its insolvency is inevitable
  • zone of leaching — A horizon.
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