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16-letter words containing g, o, r

  • 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 orange order — a society founded in Ireland (1795) to uphold the Protestant religion, the Protestant dynasty, and the Protestant constitution
  • the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
  • the scots guards — a regiment of Guards Division of the British Army which dates back to 1642
  • there you are/go — You say 'there you are' or 'there you go' when you are offering something to someone.
  • thermoregulation — the regulation of body temperature.
  • thinking through — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
  • 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.
  • through-composed — having different music for each verse: a through-composed song. Compare strophic (def 2).
  • 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 come a gutzer — to make an error or blunder
  • to get bad press — If someone or something gets bad press, they are criticized, especially in the newspapers, on television, or on radio. If they get good press, they are praised.
  • to get your oats — to have sexual intercourse regularly
  • 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 put sth right — If you put something right, you correct something that was wrong or that was causing problems.
  • toing and froing — going back and forth
  • tomorrow evening — on the evening of the day after today
  • tongue depressor — a broad, thin piece of wood used by doctors to hold down the patient's tongue during an examination of the mouth and throat.
  • tool engineering — the branch of engineering having to do with planning the tooling and processes required for manufacturing certain products, with the design and manufacture of the tools, dies, and jigs required, and with the control of the production processes.
  • top-of-the-range — de luxe, expensive
  • touring bindings — specialised ski bindings with releasable locked down heels that can be used for ski touring and backcountry skiing
  • tracking station — a facility equipped with instrumentation for following the flight path of, communicating with, and collecting data from a rocket or spacecraft.
  • train of thought — sequence of ideas
  • training college — a school providing training for a special field or profession.
  • training officer — a person whose job is to teach people the skills they need for a particular field or profession
  • 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.
  • travelling clock — a small clock taken by someone who is travelling
  • trick photograph — a photograph that creates an illusion
  • trinitroglycerin — nitroglycerin.
  • trucking company — a company that transports goods by lorry
  • uncompromisingly — not admitting of compromise or adjustment of differences; making no concessions; inaccessible to flexible bargaining; unyielding: an uncompromising attitude.
  • under one's wing — in one's care or tutelage
  • under the plough — If an area of land is under the plough, it is used for growing crops. If land is brought or put under the plough, it is ploughed for the first time and is then used for growing crops.
  • upper lough erne — a lough in Northern Ireland, fed by the river Erne
  • vapor channeling — Vapor channeling exists when vapor flow is distributed in an unequal way in a distillation vessel or stage.
  • vectorcardiogram — the graphic record produced by vectorcardiography.
  • vegetable marrow — any of various summer squashes, as the cocozelle and zucchini.
  • vegetable oyster — salsify.
  • velcro fastening — a fastening made of Velcro
  • ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
  • vinylidene group — the bivalent group C 2 H 2 , derived from ethylene.
  • virgin olive oil — oil from olives that is not processed
  • virgin territory — place never visited
  • virginia cowslip — a perennial woodland plant (Mertensia virginica) of the borage family, native to E North America and having clusters of blue or purple, bell-shaped flowers
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