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15-letter words containing a, n, l, y

  • estuary english — a variety of standard British English in which the pronunciation reflects various features characteristic of London and the Southeast of England
  • ethylenediamine — A viscous liquid used in making detergents and emulsifying agents.
  • exchangeability — The condition of being exchangeable.
  • extended family — relatives
  • external galaxy — any galaxy beyond our own galaxy
  • external memory — (storage)   A vague term for slower, non-volatile storage, usually magnetic disk, in contrast to main memory which is usually volatile semiconductor RAM.
  • extraordinarily — In an extraordinary manner.
  • factor analysis — the use of one of several methods for reducing a set of variables to a lesser number of new variables, each of which is a function of one or more of the original variables.
  • faint-heartedly — nervously
  • fair employment — the policy or practice of employing people on the basis of their capabilities only, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.
  • false pregnancy — physiological signs of pregnancy without conception; pseudocyesis.
  • family business — company owned and run by a family
  • family division — a division of the High Court of Justice dealing with divorce, the rights of access to children, etc
  • family grouping — a system, used usually in the infant school, of grouping children of various ages together, esp for project work
  • family planning — the concept or a program of limiting the size of families through the spacing or prevention of pregnancies, especially for economic reasons.
  • family skeleton — a closely guarded family secret
  • fauntleroy suit — a formal outfit for a boy composed of a hip-length jacket and knee-length pants, often in black velvet, and a wide, lacy collar and cuffs, usually worn with a broad sash at the waist and sometimes a large, loose bow at the neck, popular in the late 19th century.
  • flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
  • flight of fancy — An idea or statement that is very imaginative but complicated, silly, or impractical can be referred to as a flight of fancy.
  • floating policy — (in marine insurance) a policy that provides protection of a broad nature for shipments of merchandise and that is valid continuously until canceled.
  • floating supply — the aggregate supply of ready-to-market goods or securities.
  • fly-on-the-wall — A fly-on-the-wall documentary is made by filming people as they do the things they normally do, rather than by interviewing them or asking them to talk directly to the camera.
  • flying characin — hatchetfish (def 2).
  • flying dutchman — a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, especially near the Cape of Good Hope.
  • forehand volley — a type of forehand shot played in tennis
  • fountain valley — a city in SW California.
  • frontal cyclone — any extratropical cyclone associated with a front: the most common cyclonic storm.
  • fully fashioned — (of stockings, knitwear, etc) shaped and seamed so as to fit closely
  • functionability — functional (def 3).
  • fungistatically — in a fungistatic manner
  • gastronomically — the art or science of good eating.
  • gender equality — the state of having the same rights, status, and opportunities as others, regardless of one's gender.
  • general holiday — a public holiday
  • genetic fallacy — the fallacy of confusing questions of validity and logical order with questions of origin and temporal order.
  • geomagnetically — In a geomagnetic way; through geomagnetism.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • hale and hearty — in good health
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