15-letter words containing a, g, l, e, y
- exchangeability — The condition of being exchangeable.
- external galaxy — any galaxy beyond our own galaxy
- false pregnancy — physiological signs of pregnancy without conception; pseudocyesis.
- gender equality — the state of having the same rights, status, and opportunities as others, regardless of one's gender.
- general holiday — a public holiday
- genetic fallacy — the fallacy of confusing questions of validity and logical order with questions of origin and temporal order.
- geomagnetically — In a geomagnetic way; through geomagnetism.
- geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
- geotectonically — from a geotectonic point of view
- geranium family — the plant family Geraniaceae, typified by herbaceous plants or small shrubs having lobed leaves, showy flowers, and slender, beak-shaped fruit, and including the crane's-bills, stork's-bills, and cultivated geraniums of the genus Pelargonium.
- gesneria family — the plant family Gesneriaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having a basal rosette of usually toothed leaves, tubular two-lipped flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the African violet, gloxinia, and streptocarpus.
- gestalt therapy — holistic psychotherapy
- gladbach-rheydt — a former city in W Germany; now part of Mönchengladbach.
- glen canyon dam — Adam Clayton, Jr. 1908–72, U.S. clergyman, politician, and civil-rights leader: congressman 1945–67, 1969–71.
- glycaemic index — an index indicating the effects of various foods on blood sugar. Fast-releasing foods that raise blood sugar levels quickly are high on the index, while slow-releasing foods, at the bottom of the index, give a slow but sustained release of sugar
- glycogenic acid — gluconic acid.
- governmentality — (sociology) The organized practices (mentalities, rationalities, and techniques) through which subjects are governed and influenced.
- grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- gravimetrically — (chemistry) Using a gravimetric method.
- great-heartedly — in a great-hearted manner
- gyrostabilizers — Plural form of gyrostabilizer.
- hamersley range — a mountain range in N Western Australia: iron-ore deposits. Highest peak: 1236 m (4056 ft)
- haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
- heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
- holiday cottage — a cottage used for accommodation for a family, couple, etc, on holiday
- holiday feeling — the positive feeling people experience while on holiday and during holiday periods such as the Christmas period
- holiday village — a park with villas where holidaymakers stay and which has a central area with a shop, entertainment, etc
- hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
- hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots
- hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
- hyperpolarizing — Present participle of hyperpolarize.
- hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
- ideographically — an ideogram.
- infrared galaxy — a galaxy that radiates strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- interchangeably — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
- internal energy — a function of thermodynamic variables, as temperature, that represents the internal state of a system that is due to the energies of the molecular constituents of the system. The change in internal energy during a process is equal to the net heat entering the system minus the net work done by the system. Symbol: U.
- interrogatingly — So as to interrogate; with urgent or bullying questioning.
- interrogatively — In an interrogative manner; by means of a question.
- intransigeantly — intransigently
- irrefragability — How irrefragable something is.
- island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
- ladies' gallery — a gallery in the old House of Commons set aside for women spectators
- lady's-earrings — any of several plants having pendent flowers thought to resemble earrings, as the jewelweed or the fuchsia.
- lake tanganyika — a lake in central Africa between Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo, bordering also on Burundi and Zambia, in the Great Rift Valley: the longest freshwater lake in the world. Area: 32 893 sq km (12 700 sq miles). Length: 676 km (420 miles)
- language lawyer — A person, usually an experienced or senior software engineer, who is intimately familiar with many or most of the numerous restrictions and features (both useful and esoteric) applicable to one or more computer programming languages. A language lawyer is distinguished by the ability to show you the five sentences scattered through a 200-page manual that together imply the answer to your question "if only you had thought to look there". Compare wizard, legal, legalese.
- large cranberry — See under cranberry (def 1).
- laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
- laryngotracheal — of, relating to, or involving the larynx and trachea.
- laser ring gyro — a system of aerial navigation in which rotation is sensed by the measuring of the frequency shift of laser light in a closed circuit in a horizontal plane
- lay a finger on — to harm