16-letter words containing a, g, r, y
- day of reckoning — If someone talks about the day of reckoning, they mean a day or time in the future when people will be forced to deal with an unpleasant situation which they have avoided until now.
- daylight robbery — If someone charges you a great deal of money for something and you think this is unfair or unreasonable, you can refer to this as daylight robbery.
- deflationary gap — a situation in which total spending in an economy is insufficient to buy all the output that can be produced with full employment
- dermatologically — In a dermatological way.
- destroying angel — a white slender very poisonous basidiomycetous toadstool, Amanita virosa, having a pronounced volva, frilled, shaggy stalk, and sickly smell
- diagrammatically — in the form of a diagram; graphic; outlined.
- discographically — In terms of discography.
- discriminatingly — With discrimination.
- dual carriageway — divided highway.
- dynamic markings — directions and symbols used to indicate degrees of loudness
- east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- echocardiography — an instrument employing reflected ultrasonic waves to examine the structures and functioning of the heart.
- 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.
- ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
- flabbergastingly — Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
- 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.
- focused strategy — a business strategy in which an organization divests itself of all but its core activities, using the funds raised to enhance the distinctive abilities that give it an advantage over its rivals
- 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).
- garcia y iniguez — Calixto [kah-lees-taw] /kɑˈlis tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1839?–98, Cuban lawyer, soldier, and revolutionist.
- gastroenterology — the study of the structure, functions, and diseases of digestive organs.
- gender dysphoria — a psychological condition marked by significant emotional distress and impairment in life functioning, caused by a lack of congruence between gender identity and biological sex assigned at birth.
- 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.
- geoffrey chaucer — Geoffrey, 1340?–1400, English poet.
- glossopharyngeal — of or relating to the tongue and pharynx.
- glycosylceramide — (organic chemistry) Any glycosyl derivative of a ceramide.
- gongora y argote — Luis de [lwees de] /lwis dɛ/ (Show IPA), 1561–1627, Spanish poet.
- 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 decanter — A gravity decanter is a vessel or stage in which two liquids of different densities are allowed to separate by gravity.
- 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.
- gray nurse shark — a sand shark, Odontaspis arenarius, abundant in S African and Australian coastal waters and estuaries.
- greater-doxology — Gloria in Excelsis Deo.
- gregory of nyssa — Saint, a.d. c330–395? Christian bishop and theologian in Asia Minor (brother of Saint Basil).
- grey nurse shark — a common greyish Australian shark, Odontaspis arenarius
- greyhound racing — a sport in which a mechanically propelled dummy hare is pursued by greyhounds around a race track
- gunnery sergeant — a noncommissioned officer ranking above a staff sergeant and below a first or master sergeant.
- gynandromorphism — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
- gynandromorphous — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.