16-letter words containing i, n, s, t, u, o
- functionlessness — The quality or state of being functionless.
- 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.
- general solution — a solution to a differential equation that contains arbitrary, unevaluated constants.
- girls' night out — an evening spent outside of the home by a group of women
- 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.
- gross misconduct — a proven crime in connection with employment that is serious enough to require dismissal
- haussmannization — Georges Eugène [zhawrzh œ-zhen] /ʒɔrʒ œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1809–91, French administrator who improved the landscaping, street designs, and utilities systems of Paris.
- health-conscious — having an active interest in one's health
- heat of solution — the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a substance dissolves completely in a large volume of solvent
- heterosuggestion — Suggestion from outside.
- 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.
- hyperstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
- hypostatic union — (In Cristianity) Christ's condition of being, at the same time, both human and divine
- if you must know — You say 'if you must know' when you tell someone something that you did not want them to know and you want to suggest that you think they were wrong to ask you about it.
- image consultant — imagemaker.
- immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
- impact extrusion — an extrusion process in which a slug of cold metal in a shallow die cavity is formed by the action of a rapidly moving punch that forces the metal through the die or back around the punch.
- in a brown study — in a reverie or daydream
- in the course of — If something happens in the course of a particular period of time, it happens during that period of time.
- in the short run — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- in utero surgery — surgery performed on a fetus while it is in the womb.
- incombustibility — The quality or state of being incombustible.
- inconsequentials — Plural form of inconsequential.
- indo-europeanist — a linguist specializing in the study, especially the comparative study, of the Indo-European languages.
- induction course — training for new job
- induction stroke — The induction stroke is the stroke of the piston in an internal combustion engine in which working fluid is drawn into the cylinder.
- industrial union — a labor union composed of workers in various trades and crafts within one industry.
- infelicitousness — (linguistics, pragmatics) The quality or state of being infelicitous, or pragmatically ill-formed.
- inmos transputer — transputer
- institutionalise — Alternative spelling of institutionalize.
- institutionalism — the system of institutions or organized societies devoted to public, charitable, or similar purposes.
- institutionalist — the system of institutions or organized societies devoted to public, charitable, or similar purposes.
- institutionalize — to make institutional.
- insulin reaction — a state of collapse caused by a decrease in blood sugar resulting from the administration of excessive insulin.
- interim accounts — accounts published in the course of the financial year
- intraocular lens — a plastic lens implanted surgically to replace the eye's natural crystalline lens, usually because the natural lens has developed a cataract.
- intravenous drip — the continuous, slow introduction of a fluid into a vein of the body. Abbreviation: IV.
- intussusceptions — Plural form of intussusception.
- inverse function — the function that replaces another function when the dependent and independent variables of the first function are interchanged for an appropriate set of values of the dependent variable. In y = sin x and x = arc sin y, the inverse function of sine is arc sine.
- 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.
- isobutyl nitrite — butyl nitrite.
- joint resolution — a resolution adopted by both branches of a bicameral legislative assembly and requiring the signature of the chief executive to become law.
- journalistically — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.