15-letter words containing a, g, l, y
- 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.
- glycuronic acid — glucuronic acid.
- governmentality — (sociology) The organized practices (mentalities, rationalities, and techniques) through which subjects are governed and influenced.
- gramophonically — in a gramophonic manner
- grand old party — G.O.P.
- grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- grandstand play — an ostentatious play, as in a sport, overemphasized deliberately to elicit applause from spectators.
- graphic display — the way in which line drawings and text are displayed
- graphologically — In terms of or by means of graphology.
- gravimetrically — (chemistry) Using a gravimetric method.
- gravitationally — As a result of the force of gravity.
- gravity anomaly — a deviation from the normal value of gravity at the earth's surface, caused by density differences at depth, for example those caused by a buried mineral body
- 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.
- holding company — a company that controls other companies through stock ownership but that usually does not engage directly in their productive operations (distinguished from parent company).
- 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
- holographically — In a holographic way.
- hydrobiological — of or relating to hydrobiology
- hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
- hygroscopically — In a hygroscopic way.
- 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.
- ignatius loyola — Saint Ignatius of (Iñigo López de Loyola) 1491–1556, Spanish soldier and ecclesiastic: founder of the Society of Jesus.
- immunologically — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
- immunopathology — the study of diseases having an immunologic or allergic basis.
- infrared galaxy — a galaxy that radiates strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- insignificantly — Of such extremely small quantity or degree that it is not worth measuring.
- 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