16-letter words containing g, u, n, i, t
- go out on a limb — say sth daring
- gossip columnist — a person who writes a gossip column
- government issue — (often initial capital letter) issued or supplied by the government or one of its agencies.
- grand inquisitor — (often initial capital letters) the presiding officer of a court of inquisition.
- granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
- 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.
- grind your teeth — If you grind your teeth, you rub your upper and lower teeth together as though you are chewing something.
- gross misconduct — a proven crime in connection with employment that is serious enough to require dismissal
- group identifier — (operating system) (gid) A unique number, between 0 an 32767, identifying a set of users under Unix. Gids are found in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group databases (or their NIS equivalents) and one is also associated with each file, indicating the group to which its group permissions apply.
- gulf of thailand — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
- gutierrez najera — Manuel [mah-nwel] /mɑˈnwɛl/ (Show IPA), ("El Duque Job") 1859–95, Mexican poet, short-story writer, and editor.
- guy fawkes night — In Britain, Guy Fawkes Night is the evening of 5th November, when many people have parties with bonfires and fireworks. It began as a way of remembering the attempt by Guy Fawkes to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. Guy Fawkes Night is often referred to as 'Bonfire Night'.
- hamstring injury — an instance of physical damage to a person's hamstring
- hang around with — to associate or socialize with
- hanseatic league — a medieval league of towns of northern Germany and adjacent countries for the promotion and protection of commerce.
- headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
- hemagglutinating — That causes hemagglutination.
- hemagglutination — the clumping of red blood cells.
- heterosuggestion — Suggestion from outside.
- higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
- houphouet-boigny — Félix [French fey-leeks] /French feɪˈliks/ (Show IPA), 1905–1993, Ivory Coast political leader: president 1960–93.
- household knight — bachelor (def 5).
- household-knight — an unmarried man.
- housing shortage — a deficiency or lack in the number of houses needed to accommodate the population of an area
- hudsonian godwit — any of several large, widely distributed shorebirds of the genus Limosa, as the New World L. haemastica (Hudsonian godwit) having a long bill that curves upward slightly.
- hummingbird moth — hawk moth.
- huntington beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
- hyperconjugation — (organic chemistry) A weak form of conjugation in which single bonds interact with a conjugated system.
- image consultant — imagemaker.
- immunohematology — the study of blood and blood-forming tissue in relation to the immune response.
- immunoregulation — (immunology) The control of immune responses between lymphocytes and macrophages.
- immunoregulatory — Of or pertaining to immunoregulation.
- imperfect fungus — a fungus for which only the asexual reproductive stage is known, as any fungus of the Fungi imperfecti.
- in the long haul — in a future time
- in utero surgery — surgery performed on a fetus while it is in the womb.
- inauguration day — the day on which the president of the United States is inaugurated, being January 20 of every year following a year whose number is divisible by four. Prior to the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution (ratified February 6, 1933), it was March 4.
- induced topology — a topology of a subset of a topological space, obtained by intersecting the subset with every open set in the topology of the space.
- inextinguishable — not extinguishable: an inextinguishable fire.
- inextinguishably — In a way that cannot be extinguished; immortally.
- irminger current — a branch of the North Atlantic Current, flowing N past the W coast of Iceland and then W.
- isoagglutination — the clumping of the red blood cells by a transfusion of the blood or serum of a genetically different individual of the same species.
- junior flyweight — a boxer weighing up to 108 pounds (48.6 kg), between minimumweight and flyweight.
- juxtapositioning — Present participle of juxtaposition.
- kentucky windage — a method of correcting for windage, gravity, etc., by aiming a weapon to one side of the target instead of by adjusting the sights.
- language isolate — isolate (def 9).
- latent ambiguity — uncertainty that arises when a seemingly clear written instrument is matched against an extrinsic fact, as when a description of something being sold fits two different items.
- leading question — a question so worded as to suggest the proper or desired answer.
- leaf-cutting ant — any of several tropical American ants of the genus Atta that cut and chew bits of leaves and flowers into a mash that they use to cultivate a fungus garden.
- leaf-cutting bee — any of the bees of the family Megachilidae that cut circular pieces from leaves or flowers to line their nests.
- lightbulb moment — a moment of sudden inspiration, revelation, or recognition