16-letter words containing ig
- signal generator — radio
- solemn high mass — a Mass sung with the assistance of a deacon and subdeacon.
- squatter's right — a claim to real property, especially public land, that may be granted to a person who has openly possessed and continuously occupied it without legal authority for a prescribed period of years.
- standing rigging — rigging remaining permanently in position as a means of steadying various spars, shrouds, stays, etc. (contrasted with running rigging).
- sterling heights — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- straight shooter — a person who is forthright and upstanding in behavior.
- straight whiskey — pure, unblended whiskey of 80 to 110 proof.
- streak lightning — lightning in which there is a sudden flash from what appears to be a single main line
- substantia nigra — a deeply pigmented area of the midbrain containing dopamine-producing nerve cells.
- subtropical high — one of several highs, as the Azores and Pacific highs, that prevail over the oceans at latitudes of about 30 degrees N and S. Also called subtropical anticyclone. Compare high (def 37).
- summer lightning — distant sheet lightning without audible thunder, which typically occurs on a summer evening
- superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
- take (to) flight — to run away; flee
- tanagra figurine — a small terra-cotta statuette produced from the late 4th to the 3rd century b.c. in Tanagra, Boeotia, and found chiefly in tombs.
- telescopic sight — a telescope mounted on a rifle, etc, used for sighting
- the foreign-born — immigrants of a country
- the high country — sheep pastures in the foothills of the Southern Alps, New Zealand
- the red brigades — a group of urban guerrillas, based in Italy, who kidnapped and murdered the former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro (1916–78) in 1978
- the tamil tigers — a Sri Lankan Tamil separatist movement founded in the early 1970s that sought to establish an independent Tamil homeland (Tamil Eelam) in northern Sri Lanka; they waged a military campaign until defeated in 2009 by the Sri Lankan army
- tiger kidnapping — a kidnapping in which one or more hostages are taken to coerce another person, usually a relation of the person or people held, to take part in a crime
- tiger salamander — a salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum, common in North America, having a dark body marked with yellowish spots or bars.
- tightrope walker — performer who walks on high wire
- time sovereignty — control by an employee of the use of his or her time, involving flexibility of working hours
- to lose sight of — If you lose sight of an important aspect of something, you no longer pay attention to it because you are worrying about less important things.
- to put sth right — If you put something right, you correct something that was wrong or that was causing problems.
- to see the light — If someone sees the light, they finally realize something or change their attitude or way of behaving to a better one.
- trigeminal nerve — of or relating to the trigeminal nerve.
- walk a tightrope — be in a precarious position
- website designer — creator of internet pages and sites
- weighing machine — large measuring scales
- weighted average — a mean that is computed with extra weight given to one or more elements of the sample.
- whirligig beetle — any of numerous aquatic beetles of the family Gyrinidae, commonly seen in groups circling about rapidly on the surface of the water.
- willow ptarmigan — a ptarmigan, Lagopus lagopus, of arctic and subarctic regions of the New and Old Worlds, having brown, mottled plumage in summer and white plumage in winter.
- with a high hand — with arrogance; in an arbitrary or dictatorial manner
- woody nightshade — bittersweet (def 3).