16-letter words containing our
- get on your wick — If you say that someone or something gets on your wick, you mean that they annoy and irritate you.
- go for your life — an expression of encouragement
- 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
- gregory of tours — Saint, a.d. 538?–594, Frankish bishop and historian.
- grind your teeth — If you grind your teeth, you rub your upper and lower teeth together as though you are chewing something.
- hamiltonian tour — Hamiltonian problem
- high court judge — a judge who sits in the High Court
- hourglass figure — the shape of a woman who is well-proportioned and has a small waist
- immersion course — an educational course that teaches a foreign language, and in which the lessons are entirely conducted in the foreign language
- in the course of — If something happens in the course of a particular period of time, it happens during that period of time.
- in your own time — If you do something in your own time, you do it at the speed that you choose, rather than allowing anyone to hurry you.
- induction course — training for new job
- interbehavioural — relating to or involving interbehaviour
- journalistically — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
- journeyman baker — a baker who is qualified to work in the employment of another
- labour agreement — a contract between workers and managers setting out working conditions, wages, etc
- labour relations — Labour relations refers to the relationship between employers and employees in industry, and the political decisions and laws that affect it.
- labour-intensive — Labour-intensive industries or methods of making things involve a lot of workers. Compare capital-intensive.
- legion of honour — an order for civil or military merit instituted by Napoleon in France in 1802
- lose your memory — If you lose your memory, you forget things that you used to know.
- louise bourgeois — Léon Victor Auguste [ley-awn veek-tawr oh-gyst] /leɪˈɔ̃ vikˈtɔr oʊˈgyst/ (Show IPA), 1851–1925, French statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1920.
- lourenco marques — former name of Maputo.
- matron of honour — a married woman serving as chief attendant to a bride
- matter of course — an event or result that is natural or inevitable
- matter-of-course — occurring or proceeding in or as if in the logical, natural, or customary course of things; expected or inevitable.
- military honours — ceremonies performed by troops in honour of royalty, at the burial of an officer, etc
- mourne mountains — a mountain range in SE Northern Ireland. Highest peak: Slieve Donard, 853 m (2798 ft)
- mourning clothes — clothes worn as a symbol of grief at a bereavement, esp black clothes
- mulberry harbour — either of two prefabricated floating harbours towed across the English Channel to the French coast for the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944
- mustard-coloured — of a brownish-yellow colour
- natural resource — a naturally occurring source of wealth, as land or water.
- newry and mourne — a district of SE Northern Ireland, in Co Down. Pop: 89 644 (2003 est). Area: 909 sq km (351 sq miles)
- nonrecourse loan — a loan for which the borrower cannot be held responsible for any amount in excess of the security for the loan, even if the value of such security falls below the level it had or that had been anticipated for it at the time of the loan.
- not on your life — the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
- on your doorstep — If a place is on your doorstep, it is very near to where you live. If something happens on your doorstep, it happens very close to where you live.
- organized labour — labour carried out by workers in trade unions, or the workers themselves
- out of your mind — If you say that someone is out of their mind, you mean that they are mad or very foolish.
- over-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
- pairs tournament — an event in a sport such as tennis or darts open to pairs of competitors
- person of colour — a person who is not White
- pourriture noble — noble rot.
- print journalism — journalism as practiced in newspapers and magazines.
- propylthiouracil — a white crystalline compound, C 7 H 1 0 N 2 OS, that interferes with the synthesis of thyroid hormone by the thyroid gland: used in the treatment of hyperthyroidism.
- pure watercolour — water-soluble pigment, applied in transparent washes and without the admixture of white pigment in the lighter tones
- put your feet up — If you put your feet up, you relax or have a rest, especially by sitting or lying with your feet supported off the ground.
- red flour beetle — a reddish-brown flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, that feeds on stored grain, dried fruit, etc.
- refresher course — a study course serving as a review of previous education.
- right honourable — (in Britain and certain Commonwealth countries) a title of respect for a Privy Councillor or an appeal-court judge
- rumour-mongering — the act of spreading rumours
- secondary colour — a colour formed by mixing two primary colours