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

  • into the bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
  • ironbridge gorge — a gorge formed by the river Severn in Shropshire; named after the Iron Bridge (1779), the first iron bridge of its kind in the world, now a monument to the Industrial Revolution
  • irrigation ditch — trench supplying land with water
  • jacobson's organ — either of a pair of blind, tubular, olfactory sacs in the roof of the mouth, vestigial in humans but well-developed in many animals, especially reptiles.
  • javelin throwing — the sport of throwing the javelin
  • john wheelwrightJohn, 1592?–1679, English clergyman in America.
  • johnny foreigner — a person from a country other than those which make up the United Kingdom
  • johnston's organ — a sense organ in the second segment of the antenna of an insect, sensitive to movements of the antenna's flagellum, as when the insect is in flight.
  • julius rosenbergAlfred, 1893–1946, German Nazi ideologist and political leader, born in Estonia.
  • junior flyweight — a boxer weighing up to 108 pounds (48.6 kg), between minimumweight and flyweight.
  • kamerlingh onnes — Heike [hahy-kuh] /ˈhaɪ kə/ (Show IPA), 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: Nobel Prize 1913.
  • kamerlingh-onnes — Heike (ˈhaɪkə). 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: a pioneer of the physics of low-temperature materials and discoverer (1911) of superconductivity. Nobel prize for physics 1913
  • kangaroo closure — a form of closure in which the chair or speaker selects certain amendments for discussion and excludes others
  • karadeniz bogazi — Bosporus
  • keep on a string — to have control or a hold over (someone), esp emotionally
  • keyword indexing — the process of constructing or compiling an index to a document or other item by using keywords that describe the item.
  • kingdom of arles — a kingdom in SE France which had dissolved by 1378: known as the Kingdom of Burgundy until about 1200
  • knights of labor — a secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
  • knowledge worker — a person employed to produce or analyse ideas and information
  • labour agreement — a contract between workers and managers setting out working conditions, wages, etc
  • lacto-vegetarian — a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy produce and eggs
  • lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
  • lagrangian point — one of five points in the orbital plane of two bodies orbiting about their common center of gravity at which another body of small mass can be in equilibrium.
  • large-print book — a book where the text is printed in larger text than normal, so as to make it easier to read, esp for the visually impaired
  • learning process — a process of learning
  • legal dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the various branches of the legal profession, as civil law, criminal law, and corporate law. A comprehensive legal dictionary adds to its body of standard English entries many words and phrases that have made their way into modern legal practice from law French and Latin and are rarely found in a general English monolingual dictionary. Such a specialized dictionary is useful not only for law students and for attorneys themselves, but for members of the lay public who require legal services. Legal dictionaries published in print follow the normal practice of sorting entry terms alphabetically, while electronic dictionaries, such as the online Dictionary of Law on Dictionary.com, allow direct, immediate access to a search term.
  • legal separation — judicial separation.
  • legion of honour — an order for civil or military merit instituted by Napoleon in France in 1802
  • leptosporangiate — (of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a single cell, rather than from a group, and normally with specialized explosive spore dispersal
  • liebig condenser — a laboratory condenser consisting of a glass tube surrounded by a glass envelope through which cooling water flows
  • lightning stroke — a discharge of lightning between a cloud and the earth, esp one that causes damage
  • linux user group — (body, operating system)   (LUG) Any organisation of Linux users in a local area, university, etc., that offers mutual technical support, companionship with people of similar interests and promotes the use of Linux among computer users generally. LUGs often hold Install Fests for the general public, in which experienced Linux users explain and supervise the installation of Linux on new users' systems.
  • local government — the administration of the civic affairs of a city, town, or district by its inhabitants rather than by the state or country at large.
  • log on (or off) — to enter the necessary information to begin (or end) a session on a computer terminal
  • logical relation — A relation R satisfying f R g <=> For all a, b, a R b => f a R g b This definition, by Plotkin, can be used to extend the definition of a relation on the types of a and b to a relation on functions.
  • long-term memory — information stored in the brain and retrievable over a long period of time, often over the entire life span of the individual (contrasted with short-term memory).
  • long-wire aerial — a travelling-wave aerial consisting of one or more conductors, the length of which usually exceeds several wavelengths
  • longicorn beetle — any beetle of the family Cerambycidae, having a long narrow body, long legs, and long antennae
  • lost river range — a mountain range in E central Idaho. Highest peak, Borah Peak (also highest in the state), 12,662 feet (3862 meters).
  • lower lough erne — a lough in Northern Ireland, fed by the river Erne
  • lymphangiography — x-ray visualization of lymph vessels and nodes following injection of a contrast medium.
  • macro-linguistic — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
  • macrolinguistics — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
  • magnesiochromite — (mineral) A chromite species with the formula MgCr2O4.
  • magnetic equator — aclinic line.
  • magneto-electric — of or relating to the induction of electric current or electromotive force by means of permanent magnets.
  • magnetochemistry — the study of magnetic and chemical phenomena in their relation to one another.
  • magnetogenerator — magneto.
  • magnetoreceptors — Plural form of magnetoreceptor.
  • magnetoresistive — Of or pertaining to magnetoresistance.
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