16-letter words containing o, a, t, l, i
- flight simulator — a device used in pilot and crew training that provides a cockpit environment and sensations of flight under actual conditions.
- floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
- flotation collar — an inflatable device worn around the neck to keep the wearer afloat when in danger of drowning
- food intolerance — an intolerance of a specific type of food, causing an adverse reaction
- fool around with — have casual sex
- football special — a train service provided specially to transport football supporters to and from a match
- foreign national — citizen of another country
- formation flying — a formal arrangement of flying aircraft acting as a unit
- frontier orbital — the highest-energy occupied orbital or lowest-energy unoccupied orbital in a molecule. Such orbitals have a large influence on chemical properties
- 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.
- functional shift — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
- functional water — water containing additives that provide extra nutritional value
- funeral director — a person, usually a licensed embalmer, who supervises or conducts the preparation of the dead for burial and directs or arranges funerals.
- galactic equator — the great circle on the celestial sphere that is equidistant from the galactic poles, being inclined approximately 62° to the celestial equator and lying about one degree north of the center line of the Milky Way.
- 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.
- gastrointestinal — of, relating to, or affecting the stomach and intestines.
- 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 hospital — A general hospital is a hospital that does not specialize in the treatment of particular illnesses or patients.
- general solution — a solution to a differential equation that contains arbitrary, unevaluated constants.
- geometrical pace — a pace of 5 feet (1.5 meters), representing the distance between the places at which the same foot rests on the ground in walking.
- global community — the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent
- glove anesthesia — loss of sensation in the hand
- go off the rails — If someone goes off the rails, they start to behave in a way that other people think is unacceptable or very strange, for example they start taking drugs or breaking the law.
- go out on a limb — say sth daring
- gold certificate — a former U.S. paper currency issued by the federal government for circulation from 1865 to 1933, equal to and redeemable for gold to a stated value.
- 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.
- goosefoot family — formerly, the plant family Chenopodiaceae, characterized by often weedy herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually alternate leaves, small and inconspicuous flowers, and tiny, dry fruit, and including the beet, glasswort, goosefoot, Russian thistle, saltbush, and spinach; now part of the amaranth family, Amaranthaceae.
- governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
- granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
- gravity platform — (in the oil industry) a drilling platform that rests directly on the sea bed and is kept in position by its own weight; it is usually made of reinforced concrete
- gravity railroad — a railroad depending partly on the force of gravity for motive power.
- great soil group — according to a system of classification that originated in Russia, any of several broad groups of soils with common characteristics usually associated with particular climates and vegetation types.
- grid declination — the angular difference between true north and grid north on a map
- growth potential — capability of expanding
- gulf of thailand — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
- half-blind joint — a corner dovetail joint visible on one face only.
- hamiltonian path — Hamiltonian problem
- hamiltonian tour — Hamiltonian problem
- hayes-compatible — (communications) A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.
- health authority — a government agency that is responsible for NHS care in a particular area
- health education — education that aims to give people the information they need to live healthily
- health inspector — a public employee who inspects places such as restaurants, shops, factories etc to make sure they are hygienic and do not pose any dangers to health
- 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
- heliotherapeutic — Pertaining to heliotherapy.
- hemagglutination — the clumping of red blood cells.
- hemangioblastoma — (medicine) Any of several benign neoplasm tumours of the brain.
- hematocrit-value — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
- hematocrystallin — (biology, archaic) hemoglobin.