16-letter words containing u, n, a, r, o
- fraternity house — a house occupied by a college or university fraternity.
- fraunhofer lines — a set of dark lines appearing in the continuous emission spectrum of the sun. It is caused by the absorption of light of certain wavelengths coming from the hotter region of the sun by elements in the cooler outer atmosphere
- functional group — a group of atoms responsible for the characteristic behavior of the class of compounds in which the group occurs, as the hydroxyl group in alcohols.
- functional water — water containing additives that provide extra nutritional value
- funeral director — a person, usually a licensed embalmer, who supervises or conducts the preparation of the dead for burial and directs or arranges funerals.
- gaudí (i cornet) — An‧to‧nio (ɑnˈtɔnjɔ ) ; änt^ōˈny^ō) 1852-1926; Sp. architect
- general factotum — a person who does all sorts of jobs; general assistant
- general solution — a solution to a differential equation that contains arbitrary, unevaluated constants.
- george m pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
- golden parachute — an employment contract or agreement guaranteeing a key executive of a company substantial severance pay and other financial benefits in the event of job loss caused by the company's being sold or merged.
- gonzález márquez — Felipe (feˈlipe). born 1942, Spanish statesman; prime minister of Spain (1982–96)
- grace-and-favour — (of a house, flat, etc) owned by the sovereign and granted free of rent to a person to whom the sovereign wishes to express gratitude
- grand inquisitor — (often initial capital letters) the presiding officer of a court of inquisition.
- granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
- great blue heron — a large American heron, Ardea herodias, having bluish-gray plumage.
- greyhound racing — a sport in which a mechanically propelled dummy hare is pursued by greyhounds around a race track
- ground substance — Also called matrix. the homogeneous substance in which the fibers and cells of connective tissue are embedded.
- grounded neutral — Grounded neutral is the situation in which the neutral wire of an electrical supply system is connected to ground.
- growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
- 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 martaban — an inlet of the Bay of Bengal in Myanmar
- gun control laws — the laws that restrict the possession and use of guns
- gynandromorphous — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
- hamiltonian tour — Hamiltonian problem
- hang around with — to associate or socialize with
- have been around — be experienced
- hemopneumothorax — (medicine) pneumothorax and hemothorax occurring together.
- higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
- holier-than-thou — obnoxiously pious; sanctimonious; self-righteous.
- horizontal union — a labor union organized by skills or trades of its members rather than by industries.
- horsehair fungus — an edible white, striated, umbrella-capped mushroom, Marasmius rotula, commonly found in eastern North America.
- horsehead nebula — a dark nebula in the constellation Orion, composed of opaque cosmic dust and resembling the head of a horse.
- housing shortage — a deficiency or lack in the number of houses needed to accommodate the population of an area
- huevos rancheros — a Latin American dish of eggs, usually fried or poached, topped with a spicy tomato sauce and sometimes served on a fried corn tortilla with the addition of vegetables and cheese.
- hundred-year-old — of one hundred years of age
- hurricane season — annual cyclone period
- hydration number — the number of molecules of water with which an ion can combine in an aqueous solution of given concentration.
- hydroxylammonium — (inorganic compound) The univalent NH3OH+ cation, derived from hydroxylamine.
- hyperconjugation — (organic chemistry) A weak form of conjugation in which single bonds interact with a conjugated system.
- hyperstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
- immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
- immunomodulatory — (medical) Having the ability to alter or regulate immune functions.
- immunoregulation — (immunology) The control of immune responses between lymphocytes and macrophages.
- immunoregulatory — Of or pertaining to immunoregulation.
- impact extrusion — an extrusion process in which a slug of cold metal in a shallow die cavity is formed by the action of a rapidly moving punch that forces the metal through the die or back around the punch.
- in a brown study — in a reverie or daydream
- in the nature of — essentially the same as; by way of
- 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.