16-letter words containing s, u, g, o
- 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.
- hydrogen sulfide — a colorless, flammable, water-soluble, cumulatively poisonous gas, H 2 S, having the odor of rotten eggs: used chiefly in the manufacture of chemicals, in metallurgy, and as a reagent in laboratory analysis.
- image consultant — imagemaker.
- import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
- in utero surgery — surgery performed on a fetus while it is in the womb.
- 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.
- jeweller's rouge — a finely powdered form of ferric oxide used as a metal polish
- julius rosenberg — Alfred, 1893–1946, German Nazi ideologist and political leader, born in Estonia.
- juxtapositioning — Present participle of juxtaposition.
- kangaroo closure — a form of closure in which the chair or speaker selects certain amendments for discussion and excludes others
- language isolate — isolate (def 9).
- lapsang souchong — a large-leafed variety of China tea with a slightly smoky flavour
- 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
- lighthouse clock — an American mantel clock of the early 19th century, having the dial and works exposed beneath a glass dome on a tapered, cylindrical body.
- lighthouse point — a city in NW Florida.
- lignin sulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
- linguistic stock — a parent language and all its derived dialects and languages.
- linux user group — (body, operating system) (LUG) Any organisation of Linux users in a local area, university, etc., that offers mutual technical support, companionship with people of similar interests and promotes the use of Linux among computer users generally. LUGs often hold Install Fests for the general public, in which experienced Linux users explain and supervise the installation of Linux on new users' systems.
- lissajous figure — the series of plane curves traced by an object executing two mutually perpendicular harmonic motions.
- louise bourgeois — Léon Victor Auguste [ley-awn veek-tawr oh-gyst] /leɪˈɔ̃ vikˈtɔr oʊˈgyst/ (Show IPA), 1851–1925, French statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1920.
- macro-linguistic — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
- macrolinguistics — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
- mad-dog skullcap — a North American skullcap, Scutellaria lateriflora, having underground stems and one-sided clusters of blue to white flowers.
- magnetoacoustics — (used with a singular verb) the branch of physics studying the effects of magnetism on acoustics or their interaction.
- malicious damage — Malicious damage is damage caused on purpose to the property of another person.
- manganese nodule — a small irregular concretion found on deep ocean floors having high concentrations of certain metals, esp manganese
- manhood suffrage — the right of adult male citizens to vote
- marriage customs — the acts that are traditionally done in connection with a marriage
- microlinguistics — the branch of linguistics that is concerned with the study of languages in the abstract, and that looks at specific linguistic data without consideration of meaning
- migratory locust — any of several locusts that migrate in great swarms, especially Locusta migratoria, of Africa and Asia.
- misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
- miss one's guess — to fail to guess or predict accurately
- mobility housing — houses designed or adapted for people who have difficulty in walking but are not necessarily chairbound
- modern languages — languages currently spoken
- montagu's blenny — a small blenny, Coryphoblennius galerita, found among rocks in shallow water
- mortgagee clause — a clause attached to a fire-insurance policy for protecting a mortgagee against loss or damage.
- mosquito netting — netting used in the making of mosquito nets.
- mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
- moulding process — the process of shaping or compacting a material into a frame or mould
- mount washington — a mountain in N New Hampshire, in the White Mountains: the highest peak in the northeast US; noted for extreme weather conditions. Height: 1917 m (6288 ft)
- mourning clothes — clothes worn as a symbol of grief at a bereavement, esp black clothes
- muskegon heights — a city in W Michigan, on Lake Michigan.
- mutation testing — (testing) A method to determine test set thoroughness by measuring the extent to which a test set can discriminate the program from slight variants of the program.
- neurolinguistics — the study of the neurological processes underlying the development and use of language.
- neuropathologies — the pathology of the nervous system.
- neuropathologist — A specialist who practices neuropathology.