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16-letter words containing l, o, r, g, n

  • flower arranging — Flower arranging is the art or hobby of arranging cut flowers in a way which makes them look attractive.
  • flowering quince — any shrub belonging to the genus Chaenomeles, of the rose family, native to eastern Asia, having showy, waxy flowers and a quincelike fruit, grown widely as an ornamental.
  • flutter tonguing — a method of sounding a wind instrument, esp the flute, with a rolling movement of the tongue
  • foreign language — language not one's mother tongue
  • 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 planning — business: making future provisions
  • freeboard length — the length of a vessel, measured on the summer load line from the fore side of the stem to some part of the stern, usually the after side of the rudderpost.
  • 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.
  • fringed polygala — a North American milkwort, Polygala paucifolia, having flowers with purplish-pink, winglike petals and a fringed tube.
  • 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.
  • gasoline-powered — using gasoline as fuel
  • gastroenterology — the study of the structure, functions, and diseases of digestive organs.
  • gastrointestinal — of, relating to, or affecting the stomach and intestines.
  • gender selection — choosing the sex of a baby
  • gender-profiling — the use of personal characteristics or behavior patterns to make generalizations about a person, as in gender profiling.
  • general aviation — aviation including business flying, sports flying, and crop dusting.
  • general election — U.S. Politics. a regularly scheduled local, state, or national election in which voters elect officeholders. Compare primary (def 15). a state or national election, as opposed to a local election.
  • general factotum — a person who does all sorts of jobs; general assistant
  • general hospital — A general hospital is a hospital that does not specialize in the treatment of particular illnesses or patients.
  • general sessions — a court of general jurisdiction in criminal cases in some U.S. states.
  • general solution — a solution to a differential equation that contains arbitrary, unevaluated constants.
  • geochronological — Of or pertaining to geochronology.
  • geochronologists — Plural form of geochronologist.
  • george m pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
  • george mcclellan — George Brinton [brin-tn] /ˈbrɪn tn/ (Show IPA), 1826–85, Union general in the American Civil War.
  • get into trouble — be punished for wrongdoing
  • gird one's loins — Usually, loins. the part or parts of the human body or of a quadruped animal on either side of the spinal column, between the false ribs and hipbone.
  • girls' night out — an evening spent outside of the home by a group of women
  • globigerina ooze — a calcareous deposit occurring upon ocean beds and consisting mainly of the shells of dead foraminifers, especially globigerina.
  • glory-of-the-sun — a bulbous, Chilean plant, Leucocoryne ixioides, of the amaryllis family, having fragrant, white or blue flowers.
  • glossopharyngeal — of or relating to the tongue and pharynx.
  • glottochronology — the branch of lexicostatistics that studies the rate of replacement of vocabulary and attempts to determine what percentage of basic vocabulary two presently distinct but related languages share, using the information thus obtained to estimate how long ago they ceased being a single language.
  • golden horseshoe — the urban and agricultural area surrounding Toronto.
  • 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.
  • golden rain tree — an ornamental tree, Koelreuteria paniculata, of the soapberry family, native to China and adjacent areas, having pinnate leaves, large clusters of fragrant yellow flowers, and inflated pods containing black seeds used as beads.
  • golden retriever — one of an English breed of retrievers having a thick, flat or wavy, golden coat.
  • gonzález márquez — Felipe (feˈlipe). born 1942, Spanish statesman; prime minister of Spain (1982–96)
  • governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
  • governor general — a governor who is chief over subordinate or deputy governors.
  • governor-general — A Governor-General is a person who is sent to a former British colony as the chief representative of Britain.
  • governors island — an island in New York Bay at the S end of the East River: U.S. military post. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
  • granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
  • great blue heron — a large American heron, Ardea herodias, having bluish-gray plumage.
  • great horned owl — a large, brown-speckled owl, Bubo virginianus, common in the Western Hemisphere, having prominent ear tufts.
  • green revolution — an increase in food production, especially in underdeveloped and developing nations, through the introduction of high-yield crop varieties and application of modern agricultural techniques.
  • grid declination — the angular difference between true north and grid north on a map
  • gross negligence — extreme carelessness that shows wilful or reckless disregard for the consequences to the safety or property of another
  • grounded neutral — Grounded neutral is the situation in which the neutral wire of an electrical supply system is connected to ground.
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