16-letter words containing a, g, l, y
- dual carriageway — divided highway.
- dynamic language — (language) (Dylan) A simple object-oriented Lisp dialect, most closely resembling CLOS and Scheme, developed by Advanced Technology Group East at Apple Computer. See also Marlais.
- east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- eclipsing binary — a variable star whose changes in brightness are caused by periodic eclipses of two stars in a binary system.
- electrolytic gas — a mixture of two parts of hydrogen and one part of oxygen by volume, formed by the electrolysis of water
- electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
- electromyography — The recording of the electrical activity of muscle tissue, or its representation as a visual display or audible signal, using electrodes attached to the skin or inserted into the muscle.
- epigrammatically — In a manner suggesting of an epigram.
- eschatologically — In an eschatological manner.
- ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
- evangelistically — In an evangelistic manner.
- family balancing — the choosing of the sex of a future child on the basis of how many children of each sex a family already has
- flabbergastingly — Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
- flying ambulance — an aircraft used to take sick or injured people to hospital
- flying phalanger — any of various small phalangers of Australia and New Guinea, having a parachutelike fold of skin on each side of the body to give gliding assistance in leaping.
- formation flying — a formal arrangement of flying aircraft acting as a unit
- fringed polygala — a North American milkwort, Polygala paucifolia, having flowers with purplish-pink, winglike petals and a fringed tube.
- galenic pharmacy — the art or practice of preparing and dispensing galenicals.
- galvanic battery — battery (def 1a).
- gapless playback — audio or visual playback without any interruptions or silence between tracks or scenes
- gastroenterology — the study of the structure, functions, and diseases of digestive organs.
- gay-lussac's law — the principle that, for relatively low pressures, the density of an ideal gas at constant pressure varies inversely with the absolute temperature of the gas.
- gelatin dynamite — a high explosive consisting of a gelatinized mass of nitroglycerin with cellulose nitrate added.
- general assembly — the legislature in some states of the U.S.
- general delivery — a postal service that delivers mail to a specific post office where it is held for pickup by the addressee.
- generalisability — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizability.
- generalizability — The quality of being generalizable.
- geological cycle — Geology. a continuous process by which rocks are created, changed from one form to another, destroyed, and then formed again.
- global community — the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent
- glossopharyngeal — of or relating to the tongue and pharynx.
- glycosylceramide — (organic chemistry) Any glycosyl derivative of a ceramide.
- go to any length — the longest extent of anything as measured from end to end: the length of a river.
- goolagong cawley — Evonne [ih-von,, ee-von] /ɪˈvɒn,, iˈvɒn/ (Show IPA), born 1951, Australian tennis player.
- goosefoot family — formerly, the plant family Chenopodiaceae, characterized by often weedy herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually alternate leaves, small and inconspicuous flowers, and tiny, dry fruit, and including the beet, glasswort, goosefoot, Russian thistle, saltbush, and spinach; now part of the amaranth family, Amaranthaceae.
- grammar analysis — (language) A program written in ABC for answering such questions as "what are the start symbols of all rules", "what symbols can follow this symbol", "which rules are left recursive", and so on. Includes a grammar of ISO Pascal. Version 1 by Steven Pemberton <[email protected]>. Ports to Unix, MS-DOS, Atari, Macintosh. FTP: ftp.eu.net, ftp.nluug.net programming/languages/abc/examples/grammar/.
- granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
- grape phylloxera — See under phylloxera.
- gravity platform — (in the oil industry) a drilling platform that rests directly on the sea bed and is kept in position by its own weight; it is usually made of reinforced concrete
- gravity railroad — a railroad depending partly on the force of gravity for motive power.
- greater-doxology — Gloria in Excelsis Deo.
- 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.
- horary astrology — a method through which the answer to a question is sought by casting and interpreting a horoscope for the precise moment one learns of an event, problem, career opportunity, etc.
- hydraulic mining — placer mining using a pressurized stream of water.
- hypersexualizing — Present participle of hypersexualize.
- hyperventilating — Present participle of hyperventilate.
- immunohematology — the study of blood and blood-forming tissue in relation to the immune response.
- immunoregulatory — Of or pertaining to immunoregulation.
- indefatigability — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
- inextinguishably — In a way that cannot be extinguished; immortally.