16-letter words containing ant
- counterirritants — Plural form of counterirritant.
- covariant theory — the principle that physical laws have the same form and interrelations in any system of coordinates in which they are expressed.
- crease-resistant — (of a fabric, garment, etc) designed to remain uncreased when subjected to wear or use
- customary tenant — a tenant occupying a property under the customs of the manor, often a low-status tenant with little security of tenure
- cyclohexamantane — (chemistry) A certain diamondoid, C26H30.
- domestic servant — person employed to do household chores
- economic migrant — person: seeks work abroad
- enantioselective — (chemistry) (of a catalyst) that catalyzes the reaction of only one of a pair of enantiomers.
- erymanthian boar — a wild boar that ravaged the district around Mount Erymanthus: captured by Hercules as his fourth labour
- expectant mother — a pregnant woman
- fantail goldfish — an artificially bred, hardy variety of goldfish, usually oval-shaped and deep orange or calico, with a deeply cleft, four-lobed tail held in line with the body.
- fantasy baseball — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
- fantasy football — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
- feather merchant — a person who avoids responsibility and effort; loafer.
- feira de santana — a city in BahÍa state, E Brazil.
- first lieutenant — an officer ranking next above second lieutenant and next below a captain.
- flight attendant — an airline employee who serves meals, attends to passengers' comfort, etc., during a flight.
- for the meantime — For the meantime means for a period of time from now until something else happens.
- gastro-resistant — A gastro-resistant tablet is designed to temporarily withstand attack by stomach acid.
- giant granadilla — the edible fruit of any of several species of passionflower, especially Passiflora edulis (purple granadilla) or P. quadrangularis (giant granadilla)
- 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.
- grant of probate — a certificate stating that a will is valid
- grant-maintained — funded by national government
- granted (that) … — even assuming that
- gravity decanter — A gravity decanter is a vessel or stage in which two liquids of different densities are allowed to separate by gravity.
- greater antilles — See under Antilles.
- guaranteed stock — stock for which dividends are guaranteed by a company other than the one issuing the stock.
- gunnery sergeant — a noncommissioned officer ranking above a staff sergeant and below a first or master sergeant.
- happenstantially — (rare) By happenstance; occurring due to random chance.
- heart transplant — surgery to replace a patient's heart
- hierophantically — In a hierophantic manner; in the manner of a hierophant.
- image consultant — imagemaker.
- immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
- implied warranty — a warranty not stated explicitly by the seller of merchandise or real property but presumed for reasons of commercial or legal custom (distinguished from express warranty).
- in the ascendant — If someone or something is in the ascendant, they have or are getting more power, influence, or popularity than other people or things.
- indiscriminantly — Misspelling of indiscriminately.
- infant education — (in England and Wales) education provided for children at infant schools
- infant mortality — death during infancy
- infantile autism — a disorder appearing in children before the age of two and a half, characterized by lack of interest in others, impaired communication skills, and bizarre behavior, as ritualistic acts and excessive attachment to objects.
- insubstantiality — not substantial or real; lacking substance: an insubstantial world of dreams.
- interconsonantal — immediately following a consonant and preceding a consonant, as the a in pat.
- inverse cosecant — arc cosecant.
- investment grant — a direct subsidy made by a government to a business in order to enable it to make further investment
- ion implantation — a method of implanting impurities below the surface of a solid, usually a semiconductor, by bombarding the solid with a beam of ions of the impurity.
- japanese lantern — Chinese lantern.
- keratoacanthomas — Plural form of keratoacanthoma.
- landed immigrant — foreigner: permanent resident
- lattice constant — a parameter, either a measure of length or angle, that defines the size and shape of the unit cell of a crystal lattice.
- leaf-cutting ant — any of several tropical American ants of the genus Atta that cut and chew bits of leaves and flowers into a mash that they use to cultivate a fungus garden.
- little black ant — a widely distributed ant, Monomorium minimum, sometimes a household pest.