16-letter words that end in t
- external student — a student studying a university subject extramurally
- fade-in fade-out — an optical effect in which a shot appears gradually out of darkness and then gradually disappears
- feather merchant — a person who avoids responsibility and effort; loafer.
- federal district — a district in which the national government of a country is located, especially one in Latin America.
- federation wheat — an early-maturing drought-resistant variety of wheat developed by William Farrar in 1902
- feel the draught — to be short of money
- fertile crescent — an agricultural region extending from the Levant to Iraq.
- finished product — the product that emerges at the end of a manufacturing process
- first lieutenant — an officer ranking next above second lieutenant and next below a captain.
- fish or cut bait — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
- fisherman's knot — a knot for joining two ropes of equal thickness consisting of an overhand knot or double overhand knot by each rope round the other, so that the two knots jam when pulled tight
- flight attendant — an airline employee who serves meals, attends to passengers' comfort, etc., during a flight.
- food for thought — sth worth thinking about
- for a/one moment — If you say that you do not believe for a moment or for one moment that something is true, you are emphasizing that you do not believe that it could possibly be true.
- forward contract — a contract to buy or sell an asset at a point in the future at a previously agreed price
- forwarding agent — freight forwarder.
- fourth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting unlawful search and seizure of personal property.
- from one's heart — very sincerely or deeply
- functional shift — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
- fund supermarket — an online facility offering discounted investment opportunities and advice
- fundamental unit — one of a set of unrelated units that form the basis of a system of units. For example, the metre, kilogram, and second are fundamental units of the SI system
- garden apartment — an apartment on the ground floor of an apartment building having direct access to a backyard or garden.
- garment district — an area in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City, including portions of Seventh Avenue and Broadway between 34th and 40th Streets and the streets intersecting them, that contains many factories, showrooms, etc., related to the design, manufacture, and wholesale distribution of clothing.
- gastro-resistant — A gastro-resistant tablet is designed to temporarily withstand attack by stomach acid.
- get sth straight — If you get something straight, you make sure that you understand it properly or that someone else does.
- get the hell out — If you tell someone to get the hell out of a place, you are telling them angrily or emphatically to leave that place immediately.
- get the lead out — Chemistry. a heavy, comparatively soft, malleable, bluish-gray metal, sometimes found in its natural state but usually combined as a sulfide, especially in galena. Symbol: Pb; atomic weight: 207.19; atomic number: 82; specific gravity: 11.34 at 20°C.
- girls' night out — an evening spent outside of the home by a group of women
- go to the toilet — You can say that someone goes to the toilet to mean that they get rid of waste substances from their body, especially when you want to avoid using words that you think may offend people.
- goods in transit — articles that are in the process of being carried by vehicle from one place to another
- gossip columnist — a person who writes a gossip column
- graduate student — postgraduate-level student
- granger movement — a campaign for state control of railroads and grain elevators, especially in the north central states, carried on during the 1870s by members of the Patrons of Husbandry (the Grange) a farmers' organization that had been formed for social and cultural purposes.
- grignard reagent — any of the group of reagents produced by the interaction of magnesium and an organic halide, usually in the presence of an ether, and having the general formula RMgX, where R is an organic group and X is a halogen: used in the Grignard reaction.
- grin and bear it — to suffer trouble or hardship without complaint
- gross misconduct — a proven crime in connection with employment that is serious enough to require dismissal
- gunnery sergeant — a noncommissioned officer ranking above a staff sergeant and below a first or master sergeant.
- guy fawkes night — In Britain, Guy Fawkes Night is the evening of 5th November, when many people have parties with bonfires and fireworks. It began as a way of remembering the attempt by Guy Fawkes to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. Guy Fawkes Night is often referred to as 'Bonfire Night'.
- half-blind joint — a corner dovetail joint visible on one face only.
- hammer (away) at — to work continuously or energetically at
- hawthorne effect — a positive change in the performance of a group of persons taking part in an experiment or study due to their perception of being singled out for special consideration.
- head arrangement — a roughly outlined musical arrangement that is played from memory and is often learned by ear.
- heart transplant — surgery to replace a patient's heart
- high wire artist — a performer of a high-wire act
- histopathologist — A person involved in histopathology.
- horseshoe magnet — a horseshoe-shaped permanent magnet.
- horticulturalist — Misspelling of horticulturist.
- household knight — bachelor (def 5).
- household-knight — an unmarried man.
- 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.