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16-letter words containing u, d, o

  • grounded neutral — Grounded neutral is the situation in which the neutral wire of an electrical supply system is connected to ground.
  • group identifier — (operating system)   (gid) A unique number, between 0 an 32767, identifying a set of users under Unix. Gids are found in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group databases (or their NIS equivalents) and one is also associated with each file, indicating the group to which its group permissions apply.
  • 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 liaodong — the N part of the Gulf of Chihli, west of the Liaodong Peninsula
  • gulf of thailand — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
  • gynandromorphous — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
  • hang around with — to associate or socialize with
  • hard put (to it) — having considerable difficulty or trouble
  • have been around — be experienced
  • health education — education that aims to give people the information they need to live healthily
  • high court judge — a judge who sits in the High Court
  • higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
  • horsehead nebula — a dark nebula in the constellation Orion, composed of opaque cosmic dust and resembling the head of a horse.
  • hot buttered rum — a drink made with rum, hot water, and sugar, served with a lump of butter in a mug.
  • hot-cathode tube — thermionic tube.
  • household chores — tasks such as cleaning, washing, and ironing that have to be done regularly at home
  • household knight — bachelor (def 5).
  • household troops — the infantry and cavalry regiments that carry out escort and guard duties for a head of state
  • household-knight — an unmarried man.
  • housemaid's knee — inflammation of the bursa over the front of the kneecap.
  • 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.
  • huffman encoding — Huffman coding
  • humboldt current — a cold Pacific Ocean current flowing N along the coasts of Chile and Peru.
  • hummingbird moth — hawk moth.
  • hundred-year-old — of one hundred years of age
  • hydration number — the number of molecules of water with which an ion can combine in an aqueous solution of given concentration.
  • 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.
  • hydrophyllaceous — belonging to the Hydrophyllaceae, the waterleaf family of plants.
  • hydroxylammonium — (inorganic compound) The univalent NH3OH+ cation, derived from hydroxylamine.
  • hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
  • immunodeficiency — impairment of the immune response, predisposing to infection and certain malignancies.
  • immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
  • immunomodulation — Any of several adjustments in the level of an immune response.
  • immunomodulatory — (medical) Having the ability to alter or regulate immune functions.
  • immunosuppressed — the inhibition of the normal immune response because of disease, the administration of drugs, or surgery.
  • in a brown study — in a reverie or daydream
  • inauguration day — the day on which the president of the United States is inaugurated, being January 20 of every year following a year whose number is divisible by four. Prior to the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution (ratified February 6, 1933), it was March 4.
  • inboard-outboard — Also, outdrive, stern-drive. (of a motorboat) having an inboard engine connected to a maneuverable outboard drive-shaft unit.
  • incommodiousness — The state or quality of being incommodious.
  • indian liquorice — a woody leguminous climbing plant, Abrus precatorius, native to tropical Asia and naturalized elsewhere, having scarlet black-spotted poisonous seeds, used as beads, and roots used as a substitute for liquorice
  • indissolubleness — The quality of being indissoluble.
  • indo-europeanist — a linguist specializing in the study, especially the comparative study, of the Indo-European languages.
  • induced topology — a topology of a subset of a topological space, obtained by intersecting the subset with every open set in the topology of the space.
  • induction course — training for new job
  • induction stroke — The induction stroke is the stroke of the piston in an internal combustion engine in which working fluid is drawn into the cylinder.
  • industrial union — a labor union composed of workers in various trades and crafts within one industry.
  • infant education — (in England and Wales) education provided for children at infant schools
  • infinite product — a sequence of numbers in which an infinite number of terms are multiplied together.
  • internal auditor — a person who carries out an internal audit
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