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16-letter words containing t, u, n, g, s, i

  • 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.
  • image consultant — imagemaker.
  • imperfect fungus — a fungus for which only the asexual reproductive stage is known, as any fungus of the Fungi imperfecti.
  • in utero surgery — surgery performed on a fetus while it is in the womb.
  • inextinguishable — not extinguishable: an inextinguishable fire.
  • inextinguishably — In a way that cannot be extinguished; immortally.
  • 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.
  • juxtapositioning — Present participle of juxtaposition.
  • language isolate — isolate (def 9).
  • leading question — a question so worded as to suggest the proper or desired answer.
  • 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.
  • like gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • linguistic atlas — dialect atlas.
  • linguistic stock — a parent language and all its derived dialects and languages.
  • 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.
  • magnetoacoustics — (used with a singular verb) the branch of physics studying the effects of magnetism on acoustics or their interaction.
  • 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
  • misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
  • misunderstanding — failure to understand correctly; mistake as to meaning or intent.
  • mobility housing — houses designed or adapted for people who have difficulty in walking but are not necessarily chairbound
  • mosquito netting — netting used in the making of mosquito nets.
  • mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
  • 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
  • multiple listing — the listing of a home for sale with a number of real-estate brokers who participate in a shared listing service.
  • 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.
  • nitrogen mustard — any of the class of poisonous, blistering compounds, as C 5 H 1 1 Cl 2 N, analogous in composition to mustard gas but containing nitrogen instead of sulfur: used in the treatment of cancer and similar diseases; mechlorethamine.
  • oligonucleotides — Plural form of oligonucleotide.
  • osculating plane — the plane containing the circle of curvature of a point on a given curve.
  • pacific sturgeon — a dark gray sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, inhabiting marine and fresh waters along the northwestern coast of North America, valued as a food and sport fish.
  • portuguese india — a former Portuguese overseas territory on the W coast of India, consisting of the districts of Gôa, Daman, and Diu: annexed by India December 1961. Capital: Gôa.
  • postremogeniture — a system of inheritance under which the estate of a deceased person goes to his youngest son. Also called ultimogeniture. Compare primogeniture (def 2).
  • preunderstanding — to perceive the meaning of; grasp the idea of; comprehend: to understand Spanish; I didn't understand your question.
  • pull the strings — be in control
  • punitive damages — law: penalty payment
  • purchasing agent — a person who buys materials, supplies, equipment, etc., for a company.
  • recording studio — place where music is recorded
  • registered nurse — a graduate nurse who has passed a state board examination and been registered and licensed to practice nursing. Abbreviation: R.N.
  • reporting clause — A reporting clause is a clause which indicates that you are talking about what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'She said' is a reporting clause.
  • run a tight ship — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
  • saint petersburg — Also called Russian Empire. Russian Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Capital: St. Petersburg (1703–1917).
  • saint-ulmo-light — St. Elmo's fire.
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