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16-letter words containing l, a, n, g, u, e

  • foreign language — language not one's mother tongue
  • gallium arsenide — a crystalline and highly toxic semiconductor, GaAs, used in light-emitting diodes, lasers, and electronic devices.
  • 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 factotum — a person who does all sorts of jobs; general assistant
  • general quarters — a condition of readiness for combat on a warship, during which crew members remain at their battle stations and have guns and ammunition ready for immediate loading.
  • general solution — a solution to a differential equation that contains arbitrary, unevaluated constants.
  • george m pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
  • gingerbread plum — a tree, Neocarya macrophylla, of western Africa, bearing a large, edible, starchy fruit.
  • golden handcuffs — payments deferred over a number of years that induce a person to stay with a particular company or in a particular job
  • golden parachute — an employment contract or agreement guaranteeing a key executive of a company substantial severance pay and other financial benefits in the event of job loss caused by the company's being sold or merged.
  • gonzález márquez — Felipe (feˈlipe). born 1942, Spanish statesman; prime minister of Spain (1982–96)
  • granulated paper — paper with a roughened surface
  • granulated sugar — a coarsely ground white sugar, widely used as a sweetener.
  • granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
  • graphic language — For specifying graphic operations.
  • great blue heron — a large American heron, Ardea herodias, having bluish-gray plumage.
  • great-granduncle — an uncle of one's grandfather or grandmother.
  • grenade launcher — a device attached to the muzzle of a rifle, permitting the firing of rifle grenades.
  • grounded neutral — Grounded neutral is the situation in which the neutral wire of an electrical supply system is connected to ground.
  • hanseatic league — a medieval league of towns of northern Germany and adjacent countries for the promotion and protection of commerce.
  • hemagglutinating — That causes hemagglutination.
  • hemagglutination — the clumping of red blood cells.
  • hypersexualizing — Present participle of hypersexualize.
  • image consultant — imagemaker.
  • immunohematology — the study of blood and blood-forming tissue in relation to the immune response.
  • immunoregulation — (immunology) The control of immune responses between lymphocytes and macrophages.
  • immunoregulatory — Of or pertaining to immunoregulation.
  • in large measure — If something is true in some measure or in large measure, it is partly or mostly true.
  • in the long haul — in a future time
  • inextinguishable — not extinguishable: an inextinguishable fire.
  • inextinguishably — In a way that cannot be extinguished; immortally.
  • ivyleaf geranium — a geranium plant, pelargonium peltatum, with trailing leaves and white, pink, red, or violet flowers
  • kangaroo closure — a form of closure in which the chair or speaker selects certain amendments for discussion and excludes others
  • labour agreement — a contract between workers and managers setting out working conditions, wages, etc
  • language barrier — difficulty in communication due to language difference
  • language isolate — isolate (def 9).
  • latent ambiguity — uncertainty that arises when a seemingly clear written instrument is matched against an extrinsic fact, as when a description of something being sold fits two different items.
  • leading question — a question so worded as to suggest the proper or desired answer.
  • leaf-cutting ant — any of several tropical American ants of the genus Atta that cut and chew bits of leaves and flowers into a mash that they use to cultivate a fungus garden.
  • leaf-cutting bee — any of the bees of the family Megachilidae that cut circular pieces from leaves or flowers to line their nests.
  • league champions — the team that has come top of the league
  • lean-burn engine — an engine designed to use a lean mixture of fuel and air in order to reduce petrol consumption and exhaust emissions
  • 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 gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • machine language — machine code
  • machine moulding — the process of making moulds and cores for castings by mechanical means, usually by compacting the moulding sand by vibration instead of by ramming down
  • magellanic cloud — either of two irregular galactic clusters in the southern heavens that are the nearest independent star system to the Milky Way.
  • manganese nodule — a small irregular concretion found on deep ocean floors having high concentrations of certain metals, esp manganese
  • masculine ending — a final inflection or suffix designating that a word belongs to the masculine gender.
  • mcnaughten rules — (in English law) a set of rules established by the case of Regina v. McNaughten (1843) by which legal proof of insanity in the commission of a crime depends upon whether or not the accused can show either that he did not know what he was doing or that he is incapable of realizing that what he was doing was wrong
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