16-letter words that end in t
- humboldt current — a cold Pacific Ocean current flowing N along the coasts of Chile and Peru.
- hydraulic cement — cement that can solidify under water.
- hyper-excitement — an excited state or condition.
- hyperintelligent — having good understanding or a high mental capacity; quick to comprehend, as persons or animals: an intelligent student.
- identity element — the state or fact of remaining the same one or ones, as under varying aspects or conditions: The identity of the fingerprints on the gun with those on file provided evidence that he was the killer.
- image consultant — imagemaker.
- immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
- imperfect market — a market where buyers or sellers can influence the market, and there is a lack of product information
- in one's element — If you say that someone is in their element, you mean that they are in a situation they enjoy.
- 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.
- in the limelight — prominent, featured in the news
- in the same boat — a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
- in the slightest — at all
- in the spotlight — prominently featured
- in-law apartment — a self-contained living area within a single-family home, as for an aging parent.
- income statement — an accounting of income and expenses that indicates a firm's net profit or loss over a certain period of time, usually one year.
- indecent assault — a sexual offense, other than rape, committed by one person against another.
- indian breadroot — breadroot.
- indo-europeanist — a linguist specializing in the study, especially the comparative study, of the Indo-European languages.
- infinite product — a sequence of numbers in which an infinite number of terms are multiplied together.
- informed consent — a patient's consent to a medical or surgical procedure or to participation in a clinical study after being properly advised of the relevant medical facts and the risks involved.
- insect repellent — chemical that deters insects
- installation art — art that is created, constructed, or installed on the site where it is exhibited, often incorporating materials or physical features on the site.
- institutionalist — the system of institutions or organized societies devoted to public, charitable, or similar purposes.
- interappointment — Between appointments.
- interest payment — a payment of interest on a loan or mortgage
- interference fit — a match between the size and shape of two parts, such that force is required for assembly as one part is slightly larger than the other
- internationalist — an advocate of internationalism.
- intradermal test — a test for immunity or allergy to a particular antigen by observing the local reaction following injection of a small amount of the antigen into the skin.
- introspectionist — observation or examination of one's own mental and emotional state, mental processes, etc.; the act of looking within oneself.
- inverse cosecant — arc cosecant.
- inverted mordent — a melodic embellishment consisting of a rapid alternation of a principal tone with an auxiliary tone one degree above it.
- investment grant — a direct subsidy made by a government to a business in order to enable it to make further investment
- investment trust — a company that invests its funds in other companies and issues its own securities against these investments.
- irminger current — a branch of the North Atlantic Current, flowing N past the W coast of Iceland and then W.
- isoplastic graft — syngraft.
- it's no accident — You begin a sentence with 'it's no accident' if you want to suggest that something was done deliberately or has a logical explanation, although it might give the impression of having happened by chance.
- john the baptist — the forerunner and baptizer of Jesus. Matt. 3.
- john wheelwright — John, 1592?–1679, English clergyman in America.
- josephson effect — a high-speed switch, used in experimental computers, that operates on the basis of a radiative phenomenon (Jo·sephson effect) exhibited by a pair of superconductors separated by a thin insulator.
- junior flyweight — a boxer weighing up to 108 pounds (48.6 kg), between minimumweight and flyweight.
- kiloelectronvolt — (physics) A unit of energy equal to a thousand electron volts.
- know what's what — to know how one thing or things in general work
- labour agreement — a contract between workers and managers setting out working conditions, wages, etc
- labrador current — a cold ocean current flowing southwards off the coast of Labrador and meeting the warm Gulf Stream, causing dense fogs off the coast of Newfoundland
- lagrangian point — one of five points in the orbital plane of two bodies orbiting about their common center of gravity at which another body of small mass can be in equilibrium.
- landed immigrant — foreigner: permanent resident
- latter-day saint — a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- 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.