16-letter words containing s, g, n
- immoral earnings — money earned from work that transgresses accepted moral or legal rules
- imperfect fungus — a fungus for which only the asexual reproductive stage is known, as any fungus of the Fungi imperfecti.
- in general terms — generally, approximately
- in large measure — If something is true in some measure or in large measure, it is partly or mostly true.
- in plain english — in clear and simple language
- in the slightest — at all
- in the spotlight — prominently featured
- in utero surgery — surgery performed on a fetus while it is in the womb.
- incorrigibleness — The quality of being incorrigible; incorrigibility.
- indexing service — a service that indexes the contents of a number of publications for use in printed or machine-readable form.
- indian wrestling — arm wrestling
- indigestibleness — The quality of being indigestible.
- indiscriminating — not discriminating.
- inextinguishable — not extinguishable: an inextinguishable fire.
- inextinguishably — In a way that cannot be extinguished; immortally.
- infinite regress — causal or logical relationship of terms in a series without the possibility of a term initiating the series.
- integer specrate — SPECrate_int92
- intelligibleness — The quality of being intelligible.
- interest-bearing — paying interest
- interest-earning — paying interest
- interstratifying — Present participle of interstratify.
- inverse graffiti — a form of street art in which a dirty wall or pavement has a template placed against it and is scrubbed until the surface is clean. This reveals an image or message which gradually fades with time.
- investment grant — a direct subsidy made by a government to a business in order to enable it to make further investment
- irrefragableness — The quality or degree of being irrefragable.
- isoagglutination — the clumping of the red blood cells by a transfusion of the blood or serum of a genetically different individual of the same species.
- italian dressing — a strongly flavored vinaigrette for salads, containing garlic, oregano, red peppers, etc.
- 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.
- japanese gelatin — agar (def 1).
- 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 rosenberg — Alfred, 1893–1946, German Nazi ideologist and political leader, born in Estonia.
- juxtapositioning — Present participle of juxtaposition.
- 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
- keep on a string — to have control or a hold over (someone), esp emotionally
- king james bible — Authorized Version.
- king's messenger — a person whose job is to deliver the King's messages and to bring messages to him
- kingdom of arles — a kingdom in SE France which had dissolved by 1378: known as the Kingdom of Burgundy until about 1200
- kingfisher daisy — a bushy southern African plant, Felicia bergerana, having grasslike leaves and solitary, bright-blue flowers.
- knights of labor — a secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
- knights of malta — the order of Hospitalers.
- lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
- ladies'-earrings — lady's-earrings.
- language isolate — isolate (def 9).
- lapsang souchong — a large-leafed variety of China tea with a slightly smoky flavour
- laughing jackass — kookaburra.
- leading question — a question so worded as to suggest the proper or desired answer.
- league champions — the team that has come top of the league
- learning process — a process of learning
- legal separation — judicial separation.