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16-letter words containing i, n, l, s, t

  • exceptionalities — Plural form of exceptionality.
  • exemplifications — Plural form of exemplification.
  • exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
  • exhaust analysis — An exhaust analysis is an examination of the constituents of an engine's gases, vapors, and particulates.
  • exhaust manifold — An exhaust manifold is a heat-resistant tube that connects an engine to an exhaust pipe.
  • existentialistic — Existentialist.
  • expansion bottle — a tank collecting coolant from a radiator while an engine is heated, and from which the coolant returns to the radiator when the engine cools
  • extensible shell — (operating system)   (es) A Unix shell written by Byron Rakitzis <[email protected]> and Paul Haahr <[email protected]>, derived from rc. Es has real functions, closures, exceptions and lets you redefine most internal shell operations. Version: 0.84.
  • extension ladder — a ladder that can be made longer by pulling out an extra section
  • external affairs — (formerly) the Canadian federal Foreign Affairs department
  • extradimensional — (jargon, science fiction) Originating outside the known physical reality of the universe.
  • fahrenheit scale — Gabriel Daniel [German gah-bree-el dah-nee-el] /German ˈgɑ briˌɛl ˈdɑ niˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1686–1736, German physicist: devised a temperature scale and introduced the use of mercury in thermometers.
  • falsificationism — (epistemology) A scientific philosophy based on the requirement that hypotheses must be falsifiable in order to be scientific; if a claim is not able to be refuted it is not a scientific claim.
  • fantail goldfish — an artificially bred, hardy variety of goldfish, usually oval-shaped and deep orange or calico, with a deeply cleft, four-lobed tail held in line with the body.
  • farmington hills — a city in SE Michigan.
  • feel constrained — If you feel constrained to do something, you feel that you must do it, even though you would prefer not to.
  • feline distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
  • fertile crescent — an agricultural region extending from the Levant to Iraq.
  • fictionalisation — Alternative spelling of fictionalization.
  • file composition — A typesetting language.
  • fill one's boots — to take or do as much of something as one wants
  • fire regulations — rules intended to make sure that people and property stay safe in the event of a fire
  • first balkan war — Balkan War (def 1).
  • first lieutenant — an officer ranking next above second lieutenant and next below a captain.
  • flabbergastation — (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
  • flabbergastingly — Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
  • flash eliminator — a device fitted to the muzzle of a firearm to reduce the flash made by the ignited propellant gases
  • flash in the pan — a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
  • floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
  • folk linguistics — speculation and popular views about language.
  • friendly society — law: mutual group providing benefits
  • fuel consumption — use of a material to generate power
  • fullness of time — the proper or destined time.
  • functional shift — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
  • functionlessness — The quality or state of being functionless.
  • fundamentalistic — Fundamentalist.
  • furniture polish — product: shines wood
  • gas liquefaction — Gas liquefaction is the process of refrigerating a gas to a temperature that is below its critical temperature in order to form a liquid.
  • gastrointestinal — of, relating to, or affecting the stomach and intestines.
  • gemini telescope — either of two identical 8-metre telescopes for optical and near-infrared observations built by an international consortium. Gemini North is in Hawaii at an altitude of 4200 m on Mauna Kea and Gemini South is in Chile at 2715 m on Cerro Pachón
  • 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 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.
  • girls' night out — an evening spent outside of the home by a group of women
  • glendale heights — a city in NE Illinois.
  • glove anesthesia — loss of sensation in the hand
  • gossip columnist — a person who writes a gossip column
  • greater antilles — See under Antilles.
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