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16-letter words containing s, u

  • general solution — a solution to a differential equation that contains arbitrary, unevaluated constants.
  • gentlemen's club — a private social club whose members were traditionally aristocratic males
  • get up sb's nose — If you say that someone or something gets up your nose, you mean that they annoy you.
  • 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
  • giuseppe mazzini — Giuseppe [joo-zep-pe] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ/ (Show IPA), 1805–72, Italian patriot and revolutionary.
  • globular cluster — a comparatively older, spherically symmetrical, compact group of up to a million old stars, held together by mutual gravitation, that are located in the galactic halo and move in giant and highly eccentric orbits around the galactic center.
  • glory-of-the-sun — a bulbous, Chilean plant, Leucocoryne ixioides, of the amaryllis family, having fragrant, white or blue flowers.
  • 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.
  • gold-of-pleasure — a yellow-flowered Eurasian plant, Camelina sativa, widespread as a weed, esp in flax fields, and formerly cultivated for its oil-rich seeds: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • golden delicious — a bright yellow type of Delicious apple.
  • golden handcuffs — payments deferred over a number of years that induce a person to stay with a particular company or in a particular job
  • good housekeeper — a person who is an efficient and thrifty domestic manager
  • gossip columnist — a person who writes a gossip column
  • 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.
  • graduate student — postgraduate-level student
  • grand inquisitor — (often initial capital letters) the presiding officer of a court of inquisition.
  • granulated sugar — a coarsely ground white sugar, widely used as a sweetener.
  • gray nurse shark — a sand shark, Odontaspis arenarius, abundant in S African and Australian coastal waters and estuaries.
  • 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.
  • gregory of tours — Saint, a.d. 538?–594, Frankish bishop and historian.
  • grey nurse shark — a common greyish Australian shark, Odontaspis arenarius
  • 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.
  • growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
  • gruyère (cheese) — a light-yellow Swiss cheese, very rich in butterfat
  • 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 san blas — an inlet of the Caribbean on the N coast of Panama
  • gum up the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
  • gun control laws — the laws that restrict the possession and use of guns
  • gunnery sergeant — a noncommissioned officer ranking above a staff sergeant and below a first or master sergeant.
  • 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'.
  • gynandromorphous — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
  • gyratory crusher — A gyratory crusher is a crusher in which a cone-shaped rod rotates in a cone-shaped bowl.
  • 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.
  • has the x nature — (From Zen Buddhist koans of the form "Does an X have the Buddha-nature?") Common hacker construction for "is an X", used for humorous emphasis. "Anyone who can't even use a program with on-screen help embedded in it truly has the loser nature!" See also the X that can be Y is not the true X.
  • 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.
  • have no business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
  • hawksbill turtle — a sea turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, the shell of which is the source of tortoise shell: an endangered species.
  • haymarket square — a square in Chicago: scene of a riot (Haymarket Riot) in 1886 between police and labor unionists.
  • heads-up display — an electronic display of data from instruments or other sources projected at eye level so that a driver or pilot sees it without looking away from the road or course. Abbreviation: HUD.
  • 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.
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