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16-letter words containing ou

  • get into trouble — be punished for wrongdoing
  • get on your wick — If you say that someone or something gets on your wick, you mean that they annoy and irritate you.
  • 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 for your life — an expression of encouragement
  • go out on a limb — say sth daring
  • golden delicious — a bright yellow type of Delicious apple.
  • good housekeeper — a person who is an efficient and thrifty domestic manager
  • government house — the official residence of a colonial governor, as in a British Commonwealth country.
  • 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
  • great soil group — according to a system of classification that originated in Russia, any of several broad groups of soils with common characteristics usually associated with particular climates and vegetation types.
  • gregory of tours — Saint, a.d. 538?–594, Frankish bishop and historian.
  • greyhound racing — a sport in which a mechanically propelled dummy hare is pursued by greyhounds around a race track
  • grind your teeth — If you grind your teeth, you rub your upper and lower teeth together as though you are chewing something.
  • ground substance — Also called matrix. the homogeneous substance in which the fibers and cells of connective tissue are embedded.
  • ground-to-ground — (of weapons) designed to be fired at ground targets from the ground
  • grounded neutral — Grounded neutral is the situation in which the neutral wire of an electrical supply system is connected to ground.
  • group identifier — (operating system)   (gid) A unique number, between 0 an 32767, identifying a set of users under Unix. Gids are found in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group databases (or their NIS equivalents) and one is also associated with each file, indicating the group to which its group permissions apply.
  • gynandromorphous — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
  • hamiltonian tour — Hamiltonian problem
  • hang around with — to associate or socialize with
  • have a big mouth — to speak indiscreetly, loudly, or excessively
  • have been around — be experienced
  • health-conscious — having an active interest in one's health
  • heterometabolous — undergoing development in which the young are born adultlike in form, often maturing without a pupal stage.
  • high court judge — a judge who sits in the High Court
  • holier-than-thou — obnoxiously pious; sanctimonious; self-righteous.
  • honeymoon couple — a newly-married couple who are on their honeymoon
  • houphouet-boigny — Félix [French fey-leeks] /French feɪˈliks/ (Show IPA), 1905–1993, Ivory Coast political leader: president 1960–93.
  • hourglass figure — the shape of a woman who is well-proportioned and has a small waist
  • house of commons — the elective, lower house of the Parliament of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, and various other countries in the Commonwealth of Nations.
  • house of worship — house of God.
  • household chores — tasks such as cleaning, washing, and ironing that have to be done regularly at home
  • household knight — bachelor (def 5).
  • household troops — the infantry and cavalry regiments that carry out escort and guard duties for a head of state
  • household-knight — an unmarried man.
  • housemaid's knee — inflammation of the bursa over the front of the kneecap.
  • housing shortage — a deficiency or lack in the number of houses needed to accommodate the population of an area
  • hydrophyllaceous — belonging to the Hydrophyllaceae, the waterleaf family of plants.
  • hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
  • if you must know — You say 'if you must know' when you tell someone something that you did not want them to know and you want to suggest that you think they were wrong to ask you about it.
  • 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.
  • inauspiciousness — The state, quality, or condition of being inauspicious or unpropitious; unfavorableness.
  • inboard-outboard — Also, outdrive, stern-drive. (of a motorboat) having an inboard engine connected to a maneuverable outboard drive-shaft unit.
  • incommodiousness — The state or quality of being incommodious.
  • induction course — training for new job
  • infelicitousness — (linguistics, pragmatics) The quality or state of being infelicitous, or pragmatically ill-formed.
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