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16-letter words containing i, g, n, o

  • 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.
  • javelin throwing — the sport of throwing the javelin
  • john wheelwright — John, 1592?–1679, English clergyman in America.
  • johnny foreigner — a person from a country other than those which make up the United Kingdom
  • julius rosenberg — Alfred, 1893–1946, German Nazi ideologist and political leader, born in Estonia.
  • junior flyweight — a boxer weighing up to 108 pounds (48.6 kg), between minimumweight and flyweight.
  • juxtapositioning — Present participle of juxtaposition.
  • 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
  • karadeniz bogazi — Bosporus
  • keep on a string — to have control or a hold over (someone), esp emotionally
  • keyword indexing — the process of constructing or compiling an index to a document or other item by using keywords that describe the item.
  • 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
  • kingdom-of-nubia — a region in S Egypt and the Sudan, N of Khartoum, extending from the Nile to the Red Sea.
  • knights of labor — a secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
  • knights of malta — the order of Hospitalers.
  • knowledgeability — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • lacto-vegetarian — a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy produce and eggs
  • lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
  • lagrangian point — one of five points in the orbital plane of two bodies orbiting about their common center of gravity at which another body of small mass can be in equilibrium.
  • language isolate — isolate (def 9).
  • large-print book — a book where the text is printed in larger text than normal, so as to make it easier to read, esp for the visually impaired
  • leading question — a question so worded as to suggest the proper or desired answer.
  • league champions — the team that has come top of the league
  • learning process — a process of learning
  • legal dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the various branches of the legal profession, as civil law, criminal law, and corporate law. A comprehensive legal dictionary adds to its body of standard English entries many words and phrases that have made their way into modern legal practice from law French and Latin and are rarely found in a general English monolingual dictionary. Such a specialized dictionary is useful not only for law students and for attorneys themselves, but for members of the lay public who require legal services. Legal dictionaries published in print follow the normal practice of sorting entry terms alphabetically, while electronic dictionaries, such as the online Dictionary of Law on Dictionary.com, allow direct, immediate access to a search term.
  • legal separation — judicial separation.
  • legion of honour — an order for civil or military merit instituted by Napoleon in France in 1802
  • leptosporangiate — (of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a single cell, rather than from a group, and normally with specialized explosive spore dispersal
  • liang ch'i-ch'ao — 1873–1929, Chinese scholar, journalist, and reformer.
  • liebig condenser — a laboratory condenser consisting of a glass tube surrounded by a glass envelope through which cooling water flows
  • light adaptation — the reflex adaptation of the eye to bright light, consisting of an increase in the number of functioning cones, accompanied by a decrease in the number of functioning rods (opposed to dark adaptation).
  • lightbulb moment — a moment of sudden inspiration, revelation, or recognition
  • lighthouse point — a city in NW Florida.
  • lightning stroke — a discharge of lightning between a cloud and the earth, esp one that causes damage
  • 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.
  • like cat and dog — quarrelling savagely
  • linguistic stock — a parent language and all its derived dialects and languages.
  • linux user group — (body, operating system)   (LUG) Any organisation of Linux users in a local area, university, etc., that offers mutual technical support, companionship with people of similar interests and promotes the use of Linux among computer users generally. LUGs often hold Install Fests for the general public, in which experienced Linux users explain and supervise the installation of Linux on new users' systems.
  • live on the edge — take risks
  • lodgepole (pine) — a Rocky Mountain pine (Pinus contorta) used for lumber, poles, etc.
  • logical constant — one of the connectives of a given system of formal logic, esp those of the sentential calculus, not, and, or, and if … then …
  • logical relation — A relation R satisfying f R g <=> For all a, b, a R b => f a R g b This definition, by Plotkin, can be used to extend the definition of a relation on the types of a and b to a relation on functions.
  • logical unit 6.2 — (networking)   (LU6.2) A type of logical unit that governs peer-to-peer SNA communications. LU6.2 supports general communication between programs in a distributed processing environment. LU6.2 is characterised by a peer relationship between session partners, efficient use of a session for multiple transactions, comprehensive end-to-end error processing and a generic application program interface consisting of structured verbs that are mapped into a product inplementation. LU6.2 is used by IBM's TPF operating system.
  • long time no see — I haven't seen you for a long time
  • long-established — having a long history; old
  • long-tail claims — Long-tail claims are claims that are made or settled a long time after the insurance policy has expired.
  • long-wire aerial — a travelling-wave aerial consisting of one or more conductors, the length of which usually exceeds several wavelengths
  • longicorn beetle — any beetle of the family Cerambycidae, having a long narrow body, long legs, and long antennae
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