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

  • nonbiodegradable — Not biodegradable.
  • noncorresponding — That does not correspond (to something else).
  • north ridgeville — a town in N Ohio.
  • norwegian buhund — a slightly-built medium-sized dog of a breed with erect pointed ears and a short thick tail carried curled over its back
  • objective danger — a danger, such as a stone fall or avalanche, to which climbing skill is irrelevant
  • odds are against — If you say that the odds are against something or someone, you mean that they are unlikely to succeed.
  • old-girl network — an association among women that is comparable to or modeled on an old-boy network.
  • oligodendroglial — Of or pertaining to the oligodendroglia.
  • oligonucleotides — Plural form of oligonucleotide.
  • open-die forging — Open-die forging is a forging process in which the flow of metal is not kept completely in the die.
  • operating budget — money allocated to a project
  • organized labour — labour carried out by workers in trade unions, or the workers themselves
  • partial ordering — a relation defined on a set, having the properties that each element is in relation to itself, the relation is transitive, and if two elements are in relation to each other, the two elements are equal.
  • passage to india — a novel (1924) by E. M. Forster.
  • pelagic division — the biogeographic realm or zone that comprises the open seas and oceans, including water of all depths.
  • phagocytic index — the average number of bacteria ingested per phagocyte in an incubated mixture of bacteria, phagocytes, and blood serum: used in determining the opsonic index.
  • phonocardiograph — an instrument for graphically recording the sound of the heartbeat.
  • picture moulding — the edge around a framed picture
  • point de hongrie — flame stitch.
  • portuguese india — a former Portuguese overseas territory on the W coast of India, consisting of the districts of Gôa, Daman, and Diu: annexed by India December 1961. Capital: Gôa.
  • praetorian guard — the bodyguard of a military commander, especially the imperial guard stationed in Rome.
  • prestidigitation — sleight of hand; legerdemain.
  • project guardian — (project, security)   A project which grew out of the ARPA support for Multics and the sale of Multics systems to the US Air Force. The USAF wanted a system that could be used to handle more than one security classification of data at a time. They contracted with Honeywell and MITRE Corporation to figure out how to do this. Project Guardian led to the creation of the Access Isolation Mechanism, the forerunner of the B2 labeling and star property support in Multics. The DoD Orange Book was influenced by the experience in building secure systems gained in Project Guardian.
  • prolonged-action — sustained-release.
  • radio evangelist — a Christian minister who devotes time to preaching on the radio
  • radio-phonograph — a radio and phonograph combined in one unit and sharing some components, as the amplifier and speaker(s)
  • rearguard action — an action fought by a rearguard
  • recording studio — place where music is recorded
  • regent bowerbird — a bowerbird, Sericulus chrysocephalus, the males of which have deep black plumage with brilliant golden head, neck, and wing patches and build elaborate bowers.
  • revolving credit — credit automatically available up to a predetermined limit while payments are periodically made. Compare credit line (def 2).
  • richmond heights — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
  • rigid designator — an expression that identifies the same individual in every possible world: for example, "Shakespeare" is a rigid designator since it is possible that Shakespeare might not have been a playwright but not that he might not have been Shakespeare
  • rising diphthong — a diphthong in which the first of two apparent vocalic elements is of lesser stress or sonority than the second, as the (wä) in guava [gwah-vuh] /ˈgwɑ və/ (Show IPA).
  • robin goodfellow — Puck (def 1).
  • rooting compound — a substance, usually a powder, containing auxins in which plant cuttings are dipped in order to promote root growth
  • roskind grammars — (tool)   Yacc-based parsers for C and C++ by Jim Roskind. It does not use the %prec and %assoc YACC features so conflicts are never hidden. The C grammar has only one shift-reduce conflict, the C++ grammar has a few more. With byacc it can produce graphical parse trees automatically. The C grammar conforms to ANSI C and the C++ grammar supports cfront 2.0 constructs.
  • run rings around — a typically circular band of metal or other durable material, especially one of gold or other precious metal, often set with gems, for wearing on the finger as an ornament, a token of betrothal or marriage, etc.
  • sangre de cristo — a mountain range in S Colorado and N New Mexico: a part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Blanca Peak, 14,390 feet (4385 meters).
  • santiago de cuba — a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
  • savings and loan — type of savings bank
  • self-degradation — the act of degrading.
  • self-denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
  • self-designation — a name taken for oneself or one's own people
  • self-indignation — strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base; righteous anger.
  • self-reproducing — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • sex-and-shopping — (of a novel) belonging to a genre of novel in which the central character, a woman, has a number of sexual encounters, and the author mentions the name of many up-market products
  • shorthand typing — shorthand and typing
  • shortsightedness — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
  • shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
  • slang dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering the words, phrases, and idioms that reflect the least formal speech of a language. These terms are often metaphorical and playful, and are likely to be evanescent as the spoken language changes from one generation to another. Much slang belongs to specific groups, as the jargon of a particular class, profession, or age group. Some is vulgar. Some slang terms have staying power as slang, but others make a transition into common informal speech, and then into the standard language. An online slang dictionary, such as the Dictionary.com Slang Dictionary, provides immediate information about the meaning and history of a queried term and its appropriateness or lack of appropriateness in a range of social and professional circumstances.
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