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15-letter words containing a, g, r, y

  • hygroscopically — In a hygroscopic way.
  • hyperaggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
  • hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots
  • hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
  • hyperpolarizing — Present participle of hyperpolarize.
  • ideographically — an ideogram.
  • indy car racing — a US form of professional motor racing around banked oval tracks
  • 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
  • knight errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
  • knight-errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • legacy software — legacy system
  • lending library — Also called circulating library, rental library. a small library that is maintained by a commercial establishment, as a drugstore, and is composed largely of current books that are lent to customers for a fee.
  • library binding — a tough, durable cloth binding for books. Compare edition binding.
  • light artillery — guns and howitzers of small caliber.
  • linear topology — (theory)   A linear topology on a left A-module M is a topology on M that is invariant under translations and admits a fundamental system of neighborhood of 0 that consists of submodules of M. If there is such a topology, M is said to be linearly topologized. If A is given a discrete topology, then M becomes a topological A-module with respect to a linear topology.
  • logarithmically — In a logarithmic manner.
  • lymphogranuloma — any of certain diseases characterized by granulomatous lesions of lymph nodes.
  • macro-sociology — the sociological study of large-scale social systems and long-term patterns and processes.
  • magnetorheology — the study of the relationships between the particle and fluid properties of magnetic suspensions.
  • malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
  • marriageability — The condition of being marriageable.
  • maternity grant — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a flat-rate benefit for pregnant women on low incomes
  • megalokaryocyte — Megakaryocyte.
  • metallurgically — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
  • microangiopathy — any disease of the small blood vessels.
  • microgametocyte — a gametocyte that produces microgametes
  • microtopography — microrelief.
  • mineralogically — With regard to mineralogy.
  • moreton bay bug — a flattish edible shellfish, Thenus orientalis, of Northern Australian waters
  • moreton bay fig — a large Australian fig tree, Ficus macrophylla, having glossy leaves and smooth bark
  • morning prayers — early-morning act of religious worship
  • morphologically — the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms.
  • mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
  • moving stairway — escalator (def 1).
  • nasopharyngitis — (medicine) An inflammation of the nasal passages, and of the upper pharynx.
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