16-letter words containing g, r, i, s, l, e
- flabbergastation — (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
- flabbergastingly — Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
- flibbertigibbets — Plural form of flibbertigibbet.
- friedrich engels — Friedrich [free-drikh] /ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1820–95, German socialist in England: collaborated with Karl Marx in systematizing Marxism.
- 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.
- gallium arsenide — a crystalline and highly toxic semiconductor, GaAs, used in light-emitting diodes, lasers, and electronic devices.
- garbage disposal — A garbage disposal or a garbage disposal unit is a small machine in the kitchen sink that breaks down waste matter so that it does not block the sink.
- garfield heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- gasoline-powered — using gasoline as fuel
- gastrointestinal — of, relating to, or affecting the stomach and intestines.
- 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 sessions — a court of general jurisdiction in criminal cases in some U.S. states.
- 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.
- germinal vesicle — the large, vesicular nucleus of an ovum before the polar bodies are formed.
- gird one's loins — Usually, loins. the part or parts of the human body or of a quadruped animal on either side of the spinal column, between the false ribs and hipbone.
- glycosylceramide — (organic chemistry) Any glycosyl derivative of a ceramide.
- 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.
- governors island — an island in New York Bay at the S end of the East River: U.S. military post. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
- 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.
- gross negligence — extreme carelessness that shows wilful or reckless disregard for the consequences to the safety or property of another
- handling charges — a fee paid to cover the packaging, transport, etc, of a commodity
- herpes genitalis — genital herpes.
- high-pass filter — a filter that allows high-frequency electromagnetic signals to pass while rejecting or attenuating others below a specific value.
- horsetail agaric — the shaggy-mane.
- hourglass figure — the shape of a woman who is well-proportioned and has a small waist
- hydrogen sulfide — a colorless, flammable, water-soluble, cumulatively poisonous gas, H 2 S, having the odor of rotten eggs: used chiefly in the manufacture of chemicals, in metallurgy, and as a reagent in laboratory analysis.
- hypersexualizing — Present participle of hypersexualize.
- immoral earnings — money earned from work that transgresses accepted moral or legal rules
- in general terms — generally, approximately
- in large measure — If something is true in some measure or in large measure, it is partly or mostly true.
- incorrigibleness — The quality of being incorrigible; incorrigibility.
- indian wrestling — arm wrestling
- irrefragableness — The quality or degree of being irrefragable.
- italian dressing — a strongly flavored vinaigrette for salads, containing garlic, oregano, red peppers, etc.
- julius rosenberg — Alfred, 1893–1946, German Nazi ideologist and political leader, born in Estonia.
- kamerlingh onnes — Heike [hahy-kuh] /ˈhaɪ kə/ (Show IPA), 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: Nobel Prize 1913.
- kamerlingh-onnes — Heike (ˈhaɪkə). 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: a pioneer of the physics of low-temperature materials and discoverer (1911) of superconductivity. Nobel prize for physics 1913
- kingdom of arles — a kingdom in SE France which had dissolved by 1378: known as the Kingdom of Burgundy until about 1200
- lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
- ladies'-earrings — lady's-earrings.
- learning process — a process of learning
- legal separation — judicial separation.
- leptosporangiate — (of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a single cell, rather than from a group, and normally with specialized explosive spore dispersal
- liebig condenser — a laboratory condenser consisting of a glass tube surrounded by a glass envelope through which cooling water flows
- light microscope — microscope (def 1).
- lightheartedness — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.