16-letter words containing s, i, t, u
- first lieutenant — an officer ranking next above second lieutenant and next below a captain.
- first-time buyer — someone who is buying his or her first house
- fish or cut bait — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
- fishing industry — the industry of catching fish
- fissure eruption — the emergence of lava from a fissure in the ground rather than from a volcanic cone or vent
- flight simulator — a device used in pilot and crew training that provides a cockpit environment and sensations of flight under actual conditions.
- folk linguistics — speculation and popular views about language.
- foundation stone — any of the stones composing the foundation of a building.
- four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
- fourth dimension — Physics, Mathematics. a dimension in addition to length, width, and depth, used so as to be able to employ geometrical language in discussing phenomena that depend on four variables: Time is considered a fourth dimension for locating points in space-time.
- fraternity house — a house occupied by a college or university fraternity.
- frontier dispute — a conflict concerning a frontier between countries and which usually involves those countries
- fuel consumption — use of a material to generate power
- fullness of time — the proper or destined time.
- 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.
- functionlessness — The quality or state of being functionless.
- fundamentalistic — Fundamentalist.
- furniture polish — product: shines wood
- galactic cluster — a comparatively young, irregularly shaped group of stars, often numbering up to several hundred, and held together by mutual gravitation; usually found along the central plane of the Milky Way and other galaxies.
- 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.
- gaudeamus igitur — let us therefore rejoice
- gaussian integer — a complex number of the form a + bi where a and b are integers.
- general solution — a solution to a differential equation that contains arbitrary, unevaluated constants.
- giant's causeway — a large body of basalt, unusual in displaying perfect columnar jointing, exposed on a promontory on the northern coast of Northern Ireland.
- girls' night out — an evening spent outside of the home by a group of women
- gnu archive site — (body) The main GNU FTP archive is on gnu.org but copies ("mirrors") of some or all of the files there are also held on many other computers around the world. To avoid overloading gnu.org and the Internet you should FTP files from the machine closest to yours. Look for a directory like /pub/gnu, /mirrors/gnu, /systems/gnu or /archives/gnu.
- gossip columnist — a person who writes a gossip column
- government issue — (often initial capital letter) issued or supplied by the government or one of its agencies.
- grand inquisitor — (often initial capital letters) the presiding officer of a court of inquisition.
- 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.
- gross misconduct — a proven crime in connection with employment that is serious enough to require dismissal
- guy fawkes night — In Britain, Guy Fawkes Night is the evening of 5th November, when many people have parties with bonfires and fireworks. It began as a way of remembering the attempt by Guy Fawkes to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. Guy Fawkes Night is often referred to as 'Bonfire Night'.
- hairbrush cactus — a stout, spiny cactus, Pachycereus pecten-aboriginum, of Mexico, having white flowers and bristly fruits sometimes used locally as combs.
- hamstring injury — an instance of physical damage to a person's hamstring
- hanseatic league — a medieval league of towns of northern Germany and adjacent countries for the promotion and protection of commerce.
- haussmannization — Georges Eugène [zhawrzh œ-zhen] /ʒɔrʒ œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1809–91, French administrator who improved the landscaping, street designs, and utilities systems of Paris.
- have issues with — If someone has issues with a particular aspect of their life, they have problems connected with it.
- hawksbill turtle — a sea turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, the shell of which is the source of tortoise shell: an endangered species.
- health insurance — insurance that compensates the insured for expenses or loss incurred for medical reasons, as through illness or hospitalization.
- 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
- heir presumptive — a person who is expected to be the heir but whose expectations may be canceled by the birth of a nearer heir.
- hemotherapeutics — hemotherapy.
- heterosuggestion — Suggestion from outside.
- horticulturalist — Misspelling of horticulturist.
- household knight — bachelor (def 5).
- household-knight — an unmarried man.
- housing shortage — a deficiency or lack in the number of houses needed to accommodate the population of an area
- hudsonian godwit — any of several large, widely distributed shorebirds of the genus Limosa, as the New World L. haemastica (Hudsonian godwit) having a long bill that curves upward slightly.
- hunt the slipper — a children's game in which the players look for a hidden slipper or other object, such as a thimble (hunt the thimble)