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14-letter words containing a, i, y

  • geognostically — with reference to a knowledge of the structure of the earth
  • geographically — of or relating to geography.
  • geopolitically — According to geopolitics.
  • gerrymandering — U.S. Politics. the dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength of the other party into as few districts as possible.
  • get in the way — be an obstacle
  • ginseng family — the plant family Araliaceae, characterized by often prickly herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs having alternate leaves and dense clusters of small, whitish or greenish flowers, and including the devil's-club, ginseng, ivy, schefflera, and wild sarsaparilla.
  • glycaemic load — an index indicating the amount of carbohydrate contained in a specified serving of a particular food. It is calculated by multiplying the food's glycaemic index by its carbohydrate content in grams and then dividing by 100
  • glycosidically — In a glycosidic manner; by means of a glycoside.
  • glyoxylic acid — a water-soluble crystalline compound, C 2 H 2 O 3 , that is an intermediate in photorespiration in plants.
  • graduation day — the day on which the ceremony is held at which university or college degrees and diplomas are conferred
  • grammaticality — the state or quality of being grammatical.
  • granary weevil — a reddish-brown weevil, Sitophilus granarius, that infests stored grain.
  • granny dumping — the abandonment of an elderly person, especially a relative, at a hospital, bus station, etc.
  • grape hyacinth — any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
  • gravity assist — the technique of using the energy of a gravitational field and the orbital velocity of a planet to change the speed and trajectory of a spacecraft.
  • group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
  • grylloblattids — Plural form of grylloblattid.
  • guatemala city — a republic in N Central America. 42,042 sq. mi. (108,889 sq. km).
  • guided imagery — a relaxation technique in which words, sounds, etc., are used to evoke positive mental images, feelings, and thoughts.
  • gynaecological — Alternative spelling of gynecological.
  • gyroscopically — Using a gyroscope.
  • gyrostabiliser — (British spelling) Alternative form of gyrostabilizer.
  • gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
  • gyrostabilizer — a device for stabilizing a seagoing vessel by counteracting its rolling motion from side to side, consisting essentially of a rotating gyroscope weighing about 1 percent of the displacement of the vessel.
  • haight-ashbury — a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.
  • hanging valley — a valley, the lower end of which opens high above a shore, usually caused by the rapid erosion of a cliff.
  • happy families — a card game in which the object is to collect the cards (which display images of people) until you have a complete family
  • happy slapping — the practice of attacking, esp slapping, an unsuspecting passer-by and filming it with a mobile camera phone, footage of which is then circulated for the amusement of others
  • hattie carawayHattie Ophelia Wyatt, 1878–1950, U.S. politician: first elected woman senator, from Arkansas, 1932.
  • haul your wind — to sail closer to the wind
  • health physics — the branch of physics concerned with the health and safety of people in medical, scientific, and industrial work, esp with protection from the biological effects of ionizing radiation
  • heartrendingly — In a heartrending manner.
  • heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
  • heating system — a system that provides heat to a building or number of buildings
  • heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
  • heavy nitrogen — the stable isotope of nitrogen having a mass number of 15.
  • heavy wizardry — Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface. Distinguished from deep magic, which trades more on arcane *theoretical* knowledge. Writing device drivers is heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to X (sense 2) without a toolkit. Especially found in source-code comments of the form "Heavy wizardry begins here". Compare voodoo programming.
  • hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
  • hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
  • henry j kaiser — Henry J(ohn) 1882–1967, U.S. industrialist.
  • hepatotoxicity — Toxicity that damages the liver.
  • hereditability — heritable.
  • heterokaryosis — condition in which a binucleate or multinucleate cell contains genetically dissimilar nuclei.
  • heterokaryotic — condition in which a binucleate or multinucleate cell contains genetically dissimilar nuclei.
  • hierarchically — of, belonging to, or characteristic of a hierarchy.
  • hieroglyphical — Hieroglyphic: related to or resembling hieroglyphs.
  • highly charged — electrical
  • highly trained — that has received a lot of academic or physical training
  • highway patrol — a state law-enforcement organization whose officers safeguard the highways.
  • himalayan tahr — any of several Old World wild goats of the genus Hemitragus, as H. jemlahicus (Himalayan tahr) introduced into New Zealand, having a long mane and short, stout, recurving horns: most are endangered or threatened in their native regions.
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