16-letter words containing i, n, t, r, g
- economic migrant — person: seeks work abroad
- eighteen-wheeler — a tractor-trailer having eighteen wheels
- electric welding — the process of welding together, through the use of the heat that is produced by an electric current, pieces of metal
- electromagnetics — Electricity and magnetism, collectively, as a field of study.
- electromagnetism — The interaction of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
- electromigration — (physics) the transport of small particles under the influence of an electric charge.
- electronic organ — an electrophonic instrument played by means of a keyboard, in which sounds are produced and amplified by any of various electronic or electrical means
- elegiac quatrain — a poetic stanza consisting of four lines of iambic pentameter rhyming alternately.
- embourgeoisement — (chiefly UK) The taking-up of middle-class attitudes or values; bourgeoisification; the process of becoming affluent.
- ending inventory — An ending inventory is all of the goods, services, or materials that a business has available for use or sale at the end of an accounting period.
- endocrinologists — Plural form of endocrinologist.
- energy-efficient — A device or building that is energy-efficient uses relatively little energy to provide the power it needs.
- energy-intensive — using large amount of energy
- english heritage — an organization, partly funded by government aid, that looks after ancient monuments and historic buildings in England
- entrenching tool — a small, collapsible spade used by a soldier in the field for digging foxholes and the like.
- eternal triangle — You use the eternal triangle to refer to a relationship involving love and jealousy between two men and a woman or two women and a man.
- ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
- exciting current — the current in a field winding.
- extreme fighting — a combat sport incorporating techniques from a range of martial arts, with little if any regulation of the types of blows permissible
- face recognition — the ability of a computer to scan, store, and recognize human faces for use in identifying people
- fair to middling — free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice: a fair decision; a fair judge.
- farmington hills — a city in SE Michigan.
- feather geranium — a Eurasian weed, Chenopodium botrys, of the amaranth family, having clusters of inconspicuous flowers and unpleasant smelling, lobed leaves.
- feeping creature — [feeping creaturism] An unnecessary feature; a bit of chrome that, in the speaker's judgment, is the camel's nose for a whole horde of new features.
- feulgen reaction — a reaction in which an aldehyde combines with a modified Schiff's reagent to produce a purplish compound: used especially to test for the presence of DNA
- fifth-generation — denoting developments in computer design to produce machines with artificial intelligence
- fingertip search — When the police carry out a fingertip search of a place, they examine it for evidence in a very detailed way.
- fire regulations — rules intended to make sure that people and property stay safe in the event of a fire
- first generation — 1. (architecture) first generation computer. 2. (language) first generation language.
- first-generation — being the first generation of a family to be born in a particular country.
- fishing industry — the industry of catching fish
- flabbergastation — (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
- flabbergastingly — Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
- flight formation — an arrangement of two or more airplanes flying together in a group, usually in a predetermined pattern.
- flight indicator — artificial horizon (def 3).
- flutter tonguing — a method of sounding a wind instrument, esp the flute, with a rolling movement of the tongue
- fore and aft rig — a sail set in a line from one end the other of a vessel rather than in a square
- fore-and-aft rig — a rig in which the principal sails are fore-and-aft.
- foreign minister — (in countries other than the U.S.) a cabinet minister who conducts and supervises foreign and diplomatic relations with other states. Also called, especially British, foreign secretary. Compare secretary of state (def 1).
- foreign national — citizen of another country
- forked lightning — Forked lightning is lightning that divides into two or more parts near the ground.
- formation flying — a formal arrangement of flying aircraft acting as a unit
- forward-thinking — planning or tending to plan for the future; forward-looking.
- forwarding agent — freight forwarder.
- freezing mixture — a mixture of two substances, usually salt and ice, to give a temperature below 0°C
- freight terminal — (on a rail network) a place where freight is stored while awaiting onward transport
- friction gearing — wheels or disks transmitting power by means of frictional contact.
- friction welding — a method of welding thermoplastics or metals by the heat generated by rubbing the members to be joined against each other under pressure.
- functional group — a group of atoms responsible for the characteristic behavior of the class of compounds in which the group occurs, as the hydroxyl group in alcohols.
- galvanic battery — battery (def 1a).