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16-letter words containing a, e, g, y

  • 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'.
  • gyratory crusher — A gyratory crusher is a crusher in which a cone-shaped rod rotates in a cone-shaped bowl.
  • hardrock geology — (loosely) of or relating to igneous or metamorphic rocks, as in mining (hard-rock mining) and geology (hard-rock geology)
  • hieroglyphically — In hieroglyphics.
  • high memory area — (storage)   (HMA) The first 64 kilobytes (minus 16 byte) of the extended memory on an IBM PC. By a strange design glitch the Intel 80x86 processors can actually address 17*64 kbyte minus 16 byte of memory (from 0000:0000 to ffff:ffff) in real mode. In the Intel 8086 and Intel 8088 processors, unable to handle more than 1 megabyte of memory, addressing wrapped around, that is, address ffff:0010 was equivalent to 0000:0000. For compatibility reasons, later processors still wrapped around by default, but this feature could be switched off. Special programs called A20 handlers can control the addressing mode dynamically, thereby allowing programs to load themselves into the 1024--1088 kbyte region and run in real mode. From version 5.0 parts of MS-DOS can be loaded into HMA as well freeing up to 46 kbytes of conventional memory.
  • hydrogen cyanide — a colorless poisonous gas, HCN, having a bitter almondlike odor: in aqueous solution it forms hydrocyanic acid.
  • hygrothermograph — an instrument for recording temperature and relative humidity.
  • hyperandrogenism — (medicine) An abnormally high production of androgens.
  • hyperconjugation — (organic chemistry) A weak form of conjugation in which single bonds interact with a conjugated system.
  • hyperoxygenation — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
  • hypersexualizing — Present participle of hypersexualize.
  • hyperventilating — Present participle of hyperventilate.
  • hypnagogic image — an image experienced by a person just before falling asleep, which often resembles a hallucination
  • hypnagogic state — the drowsy period between wakefulness and sleep, during which fantasies and hallucinations often occur.
  • imaginary number — Also called imaginary, pure imaginary number. a complex number having its real part equal to zero.
  • immunohematology — the study of blood and blood-forming tissue in relation to the immune response.
  • immunoregulatory — Of or pertaining to immunoregulation.
  • indecency charge — an accusation of committing indecency
  • indefatigability — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
  • inextinguishably — In a way that cannot be extinguished; immortally.
  • interstratifying — Present participle of interstratify.
  • irregular galaxy — a galaxy with no specific form and a relatively low mass.
  • ivyleaf geranium — a geranium plant, pelargonium peltatum, with trailing leaves and white, pink, red, or violet flowers
  • kentucky windage — a method of correcting for windage, gravity, etc., by aiming a weapon to one side of the target instead of by adjusting the sights.
  • kingfisher daisy — a bushy southern African plant, Felicia bergerana, having grasslike leaves and solitary, bright-blue flowers.
  • knowledgeability — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • l-glyceraldehyde — the levorotatory optical isomer of glyceraldehyde.
  • latent ambiguity — uncertainty that arises when a seemingly clear written instrument is matched against an extrinsic fact, as when a description of something being sold fits two different items.
  • legal dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the various branches of the legal profession, as civil law, criminal law, and corporate law. A comprehensive legal dictionary adds to its body of standard English entries many words and phrases that have made their way into modern legal practice from law French and Latin and are rarely found in a general English monolingual dictionary. Such a specialized dictionary is useful not only for law students and for attorneys themselves, but for members of the lay public who require legal services. Legal dictionaries published in print follow the normal practice of sorting entry terms alphabetically, while electronic dictionaries, such as the online Dictionary of Law on Dictionary.com, allow direct, immediate access to a search term.
  • leveraged buyout — the purchase of a company with borrowed money, using the company's assets as collateral, and often discharging the debt and realizing a profit by liquidating the company. Abbreviation: LBO.
  • lleu llaw gyffes — the son of Gwydion and Arianhrod, provided with a name, weapons, and a wife through the magic and trickery of Gwydion in spite of the curses of Arianhrod.
  • lymphangiectasia — (medicine) dilation of the lymphatic vessels.
  • lymphangiectasis — Alt form lymphangiectasia.
  • macrometeorology — the study of large-scale atmospheric phenomena, as the general circulation of the air or global weather conditions.
  • magnetic anomaly — a departure from the normal magnetic field of the earth.
  • magnetic pyrites — Mineralogy. pyrrhotite.
  • magnetochemistry — the study of magnetic and chemical phenomena in their relation to one another.
  • malpighian layer — the deep, germinative layer of the epidermis.
  • managed currency — a currency whose value is established and maintained by deliberate governmental action working through national and international financial institutions, in contrast to the quasi-automatic gold standard.
  • management style — the way in which and the methods someone uses in managing a company, business, etc
  • margin of safety — therapeutic index.
  • mayfield heights — a city in N Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
  • megalomaniacally — In a megalomaniacal manner.
  • megaphanerophyte — any tree with a height over 30 metres
  • meteorologically — In meteorological terms; in the context of weather.
  • methodologically — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
  • microgametophyte — (biology) Any gametophyte that develops from a microspore.
  • minstrel gallery — a gallery in a building meant for use by musicians playing to provide background music or entertainment at a feast or other event
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