16-letter words containing g, r, o, s, e, t
- gum up the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- gyratory crusher — A gyratory crusher is a crusher in which a cone-shaped rod rotates in a cone-shaped bowl.
- hammer and tongs — with great vigor, determination, or vehemence: When he starts a job he goes at it hammer and tongs.
- heterosuggestion — Suggestion from outside.
- high/great hopes — If you have high hopes or great hopes that something will happen, you are confident that it will happen.
- historiographies — Plural form of historiography.
- horseshoe magnet — a horseshoe-shaped permanent magnet.
- horsetail agaric — the shaggy-mane.
- housing shortage — a deficiency or lack in the number of houses needed to accommodate the population of an area
- import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
- in utero surgery — surgery performed on a fetus while it is in the womb.
- james oglethorpe — James Edward, 1696–1785, British general: founder of the colony of Georgia.
- keep on a string — to have control or a hold over (someone), esp emotionally
- lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
- 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
- light microscope — microscope (def 1).
- lightning stroke — a discharge of lightning between a cloud and the earth, esp one that causes damage
- lloyd's register — a publication, issued annually by Lloyd's, consisting of a list of all of the world's seagoing vessels and including such information as their age, tonnage, and classification.
- lost river range — a mountain range in E central Idaho. Highest peak, Borah Peak (also highest in the state), 12,662 feet (3862 meters).
- magnesiochromite — (mineral) A chromite species with the formula MgCr2O4.
- magnetochemistry — the study of magnetic and chemical phenomena in their relation to one another.
- magnetoreceptors — Plural form of magnetoreceptor.
- magnetoresistive — Of or pertaining to magnetoresistance.
- magnetostriction — a change in dimensions exhibited by ferromagnetic materials when subjected to a magnetic field.
- magnetostrictive — Of or pertaining to magnetostriction.
- margin of safety — therapeutic index.
- marine biologist — scientist who studies sea life
- marriage customs — the acts that are traditionally done in connection with a marriage
- megacorporations — Plural form of megacorporation.
- megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
- mercator sailing — sailing according to rhumb lines, which appear as straight lines on a Mercator chart.
- metamorphosising — Present participle of metamorphosise.
- mortgagee clause — a clause attached to a fire-insurance policy for protecting a mortgagee against loss or damage.
- mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
- mourning clothes — clothes worn as a symbol of grief at a bereavement, esp black clothes
- moving staircase — Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
- narcotics charge — a criminal charge or accusation concerning the use or dealing of illegal drugs
- net register ton — net ton (def 1).
- neurolinguistics — the study of the neurological processes underlying the development and use of language.
- neuropathologies — the pathology of the nervous system.
- neuropathologist — A specialist who practices neuropathology.
- nitrogen mustard — any of the class of poisonous, blistering compounds, as C 5 H 1 1 Cl 2 N, analogous in composition to mustard gas but containing nitrogen instead of sulfur: used in the treatment of cancer and similar diseases; mechlorethamine.
- non-intersecting — to cut or divide by passing through or across: The highway intersects the town.
- odds are against — If you say that the odds are against something or someone, you mean that they are unlikely to succeed.
- oesophagogastric — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the oesophagus and the stomach.
- oil storage tank — a very large industrial container where petroleum is stored
- operating system — (operating system) (OS) The low-level software which handles the interface to peripheral hardware, schedules tasks, allocates storage, and presents a default interface to the user when no application program is running. The OS may be split into a kernel which is always present and various system programs which use facilities provided by the kernel to perform higher-level house-keeping tasks, often acting as servers in a client-server relationship. Some would include a graphical user interface and window system as part of the OS, others would not. The operating system loader, BIOS, or other firmware required at boot time or when installing the operating system would generally not be considered part of the operating system, though this distinction is unclear in the case of a rommable operating system such as RISC OS. The facilities an operating system provides and its general design philosophy exert an extremely strong influence on programming style and on the technical cultures that grow up around the machines on which it runs. Example operating systems include 386BSD, AIX, AOS, Amoeba, Angel, Artemis microkernel, BeOS, Brazil, COS, CP/M, CTSS, Chorus, DACNOS, DOSEXEC 2, GCOS, GEORGE 3, GEOS, ITS, KAOS, Linux, LynxOS, MPV, MS-DOS, MVS, Mach, Macintosh operating system, Microsoft Windows, MINIX, Multics, Multipop-68, Novell NetWare, OS-9, OS/2, Pick, Plan 9, QNX, RISC OS, STING, System V, System/360, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, TRUSIX, TWENEX, TYMCOM-X, Thoth, Unix, VM/CMS, VMS, VRTX, VSTa, VxWorks, WAITS.
- operating-system — the collection of software that directs a computer's operations, controlling and scheduling the execution of other programs, and managing storage, input/output, and communication resources. Abbreviation: OS.
- organophosphates — Plural form of organophosphate.