16-letter words containing o, r, a, n, g, e
- 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.
- gongora y argote — Luis de [lwees de] /lwis dɛ/ (Show IPA), 1561–1627, Spanish poet.
- gonzález márquez — Felipe (feˈlipe). born 1942, Spanish statesman; prime minister of Spain (1982–96)
- good-heartedness — the quality of being good-hearted
- 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).
- grace-and-favour — (of a house, flat, etc) owned by the sovereign and granted free of rent to a person to whom the sovereign wishes to express gratitude
- grade separation — separation of the levels at which roads, railroads, paths, etc., cross one another in order to prevent conflicting rows of traffic or the possibility of accidents.
- granger movement — a campaign for state control of railroads and grain elevators, especially in the north central states, carried on during the 1870s by members of the Patrons of Husbandry (the Grange) a farmers' organization that had been formed for social and cultural purposes.
- grant of probate — a certificate stating that a will is valid
- 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 depression — the economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s.
- great horned owl — a large, brown-speckled owl, Bubo virginianus, common in the Western Hemisphere, having prominent ear tufts.
- gregory of nyssa — Saint, a.d. c330–395? Christian bishop and theologian in Asia Minor (brother of Saint Basil).
- greyhound racing — a sport in which a mechanically propelled dummy hare is pursued by greyhounds around a race track
- grid declination — the angular difference between true north and grid north on a map
- ground substance — Also called matrix. the homogeneous substance in which the fibers and cells of connective tissue are embedded.
- grounded neutral — Grounded neutral is the situation in which the neutral wire of an electrical supply system is connected to ground.
- growth potential — capability of expanding
- growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
- guaranteed stock — stock for which dividends are guaranteed by a company other than the one issuing the stock.
- hammer and tongs — with great vigor, determination, or vehemence: When he starts a job he goes at it hammer and tongs.
- hanging wardrobe — a wardrobe containing a rail with a large amount of space underneath, so that clothes can be hung on hangers placed onto the rail
- here we go again — You use expressions such as 'here we go' and 'here we go again' in order to indicate that something is happening again in the way that you expected, especially something unpleasant.
- herringbone gear — a helical gear having teeth that lie on the pitch cylinder in a V -shaped form so that one half of each tooth is on a right-handed helix and the other half on a left-handed helix.
- high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
- higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
- horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
- horsehair fungus — an edible white, striated, umbrella-capped mushroom, Marasmius rotula, commonly found in eastern North America.
- horseshoe magnet — a horseshoe-shaped permanent magnet.
- housing shortage — a deficiency or lack in the number of houses needed to accommodate the population of an area
- hydrogen cyanide — a colorless poisonous gas, HCN, having a bitter almondlike odor: in aqueous solution it forms hydrocyanic acid.
- hyperandrogenism — (medicine) An abnormally high production of androgens.
- hyperconjugation — (organic chemistry) A weak form of conjugation in which single bonds interact with a conjugated system.
- hyperoxygenation — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
- image processing — (graphics) Computer manipulation of images. Some of the many algorithms used in image processing include convolution (on which many others are based), FFT, DCT, thinning (or skeletonisation), edge detection and contrast enhancement. These are usually implemented in software but may also use special purpose hardware for speed. Image processing contrasts with computer graphics, which is usually more concerned with the generation of artificial images, and visualisation, which attempts to understand (real-world) data by displaying it as an artificial image (e.g. a graph). Image processing is used in image recognition and computer vision. See also Pilot European Image Processing Archive.
- immoral earnings — money earned from work that transgresses accepted moral or legal rules
- immunoregulation — (immunology) The control of immune responses between lymphocytes and macrophages.
- immunoregulatory — Of or pertaining to immunoregulation.
- interior mapping — an open map.
- into the bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
- javelin throwing — the sport of throwing the javelin
- 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