16-letter words containing t, o, l, a, g
- great blue heron — a large American heron, Ardea herodias, having bluish-gray plumage.
- great horned owl — a large, brown-speckled owl, Bubo virginianus, common in the Western Hemisphere, having prominent ear tufts.
- 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.
- greater-doxology — Gloria in Excelsis Deo.
- grid declination — the angular difference between true north and grid north on a map
- grounded neutral — Grounded neutral is the situation in which the neutral wire of an electrical supply system is connected to ground.
- growth potential — capability of expanding
- gulf of martaban — an inlet of the Bay of Bengal in Myanmar
- gulf of thailand — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
- gun control laws — the laws that restrict the possession and use of guns
- hemagglutination — the clumping of red blood cells.
- hemangioblastoma — (medicine) Any of several benign neoplasm tumours of the brain.
- histopathologist — A person involved in histopathology.
- home heating oil — fuel oil for domestic central heating
- homeric laughter — loud, hearty laughter, as of the gods.
- horary astrology — a method through which the answer to a question is sought by casting and interpreting a horoscope for the precise moment one learns of an event, problem, career opportunity, etc.
- horsetail agaric — the shaggy-mane.
- hot stove league — devotees of a sport, especially baseball, who meet for off-season talks.
- hot-stove league — devotees of a sport, especially baseball, who meet for off-season talks.
- ill-gotten gains — Ill-gotten gains are things that someone has obtained in a dishonest or illegal way.
- image consultant — imagemaker.
- immigration laws — regulations on incoming foreigners
- immunohematology — the study of blood and blood-forming tissue in relation to the immune response.
- immunoregulation — (immunology) The control of immune responses between lymphocytes and macrophages.
- immunoregulatory — Of or pertaining to immunoregulation.
- in the long haul — in a future time
- inflationary gap — the excess of total spending in an economy over the value, at current prices, of the output it can produce
- 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.
- isoplastic graft — syngraft.
- james oglethorpe — James Edward, 1696–1785, British general: founder of the colony of Georgia.
- javelin throwing — the sport of throwing the javelin
- knights of labor — a secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
- knights of malta — the order of Hospitalers.
- knowledgeability — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- labour agreement — a contract between workers and managers setting out working conditions, wages, etc
- lacto-vegetarian — a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy produce and eggs
- lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
- lagrangian point — one of five points in the orbital plane of two bodies orbiting about their common center of gravity at which another body of small mass can be in equilibrium.
- language isolate — isolate (def 9).
- large-print book — a book where the text is printed in larger text than normal, so as to make it easier to read, esp for the visually impaired
- leading question — a question so worded as to suggest the proper or desired answer.
- legal dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the various branches of the legal profession, as civil law, criminal law, and corporate law. A comprehensive legal dictionary adds to its body of standard English entries many words and phrases that have made their way into modern legal practice from law French and Latin and are rarely found in a general English monolingual dictionary. Such a specialized dictionary is useful not only for law students and for attorneys themselves, but for members of the lay public who require legal services. Legal dictionaries published in print follow the normal practice of sorting entry terms alphabetically, while electronic dictionaries, such as the online Dictionary of Law on Dictionary.com, allow direct, immediate access to a search term.
- legal separation — judicial separation.
- legislative veto — a veto exercised by a legislature nullifying or reversing an action, decision, etc., of the executive branch.
- leptosporangiate — (of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a single cell, rather than from a group, and normally with specialized explosive spore dispersal
- leveraged buyout — the purchase of a company with borrowed money, using the company's assets as collateral, and often discharging the debt and realizing a profit by liquidating the company. Abbreviation: LBO.
- light adaptation — the reflex adaptation of the eye to bright light, consisting of an increase in the number of functioning cones, accompanied by a decrease in the number of functioning rods (opposed to dark adaptation).
- 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.
- like cat and dog — quarrelling savagely
- lithographically — In the manner of lithography.