16-letter words containing r, u, n, o
- frankfurt school — a school of thought, founded at the University of Frankfurt in 1923 by Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and others, derived from Marxist, Freudian, and Hegelian theory
- fraternity house — a house occupied by a college or university fraternity.
- fraunhofer lines — a set of dark lines appearing in the continuous emission spectrum of the sun. It is caused by the absorption of light of certain wavelengths coming from the hotter region of the sun by elements in the cooler outer atmosphere
- french community — a cultural and economic association of France, its overseas departments and territories, and former French territories that chose to maintain association after becoming independent republics: formed 1958.
- frontier dispute — a conflict concerning a frontier between countries and which usually involves those countries
- 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 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.
- furniture polish — product: shines wood
- gaudí (i cornet) — An‧to‧nio (ɑnˈtɔnjɔ ) ; änt^ōˈny^ō) 1852-1926; Sp. architect
- general factotum — a person who does all sorts of jobs; general assistant
- 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.
- get into trouble — be punished for wrongdoing
- get on your wick — If you say that someone or something gets on your wick, you mean that they annoy and irritate you.
- girls' night out — an evening spent outside of the home by a group of women
- glory-of-the-sun — a bulbous, Chilean plant, Leucocoryne ixioides, of the amaryllis family, having fragrant, white or blue flowers.
- 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)
- government house — the official residence of a colonial governor, as in a British Commonwealth country.
- government issue — (often initial capital letter) issued or supplied by the government or one of its agencies.
- 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
- grand inquisitor — (often initial capital letters) the presiding officer of a court of inquisition.
- 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.
- 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.
- greyhound racing — a sport in which a mechanically propelled dummy hare is pursued by greyhounds around a race track
- grind your teeth — If you grind your teeth, you rub your upper and lower teeth together as though you are chewing something.
- gross misconduct — a proven crime in connection with employment that is serious enough to require dismissal
- ground substance — Also called matrix. the homogeneous substance in which the fibers and cells of connective tissue are embedded.
- ground-to-ground — (of weapons) designed to be fired at ground targets from the ground
- grounded neutral — Grounded neutral is the situation in which the neutral wire of an electrical supply system is connected to ground.
- group identifier — (operating system) (gid) A unique number, between 0 an 32767, identifying a set of users under Unix. Gids are found in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group databases (or their NIS equivalents) and one is also associated with each file, indicating the group to which its group permissions apply.
- 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.
- gulf of honduras — an inlet of the Caribbean, on the coasts of Honduras, Guatemala, and Belize
- gulf of martaban — an inlet of the Bay of Bengal in Myanmar
- gun control laws — the laws that restrict the possession and use of guns
- gynandromorphous — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
- hamiltonian tour — Hamiltonian problem
- hang around with — to associate or socialize with
- have been around — be experienced
- hemopneumothorax — (medicine) pneumothorax and hemothorax occurring together.
- heterosuggestion — Suggestion from outside.
- higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
- holier-than-thou — obnoxiously pious; sanctimonious; self-righteous.
- horizontal union — a labor union organized by skills or trades of its members rather than by industries.
- horsehair fungus — an edible white, striated, umbrella-capped mushroom, Marasmius rotula, commonly found in eastern North America.
- horsehead nebula — a dark nebula in the constellation Orion, composed of opaque cosmic dust and resembling the head of a horse.
- housing shortage — a deficiency or lack in the number of houses needed to accommodate the population of an area