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15-letter words containing c, a, g, n, e, y

  • glen canyon damAdam 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.
  • greenback party — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
  • guidance system — The guidance system of a missile or rocket is the device which controls its course.
  • haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • interchangeably — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
  • 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.
  • magnetic pulley — a magnetic device for separating metal from sand, refuse, etc.
  • malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
  • managed economy — an economy in which the government allocates prices of goods and resources
  • metacognitively — In a metacognitive way.
  • mineralogically — With regard to mineralogy.
  • new archaeology — a reorientation of archaeology, dating from the 1960s, that emphasizes an explicitly scientific, problem-oriented, deductive approach to research.
  • ocean greyhound — a fast ship, esp a liner
  • operating cycle — the period of time between starting a business and making a profit
  • pachymeningitis — inflammation of the dura mater of the brain and spinal cord
  • packing density — a measure of the amount of data that can be held by unit length of a storage medium, such as magnetic tape
  • phrenologically — in a manner relating to phrenology
  • physical change — a usually reversible change in the physical properties of a substance, as size or shape: Freezing a liquid is a physical change.
  • phytopathogenic — of, possessing the properties of, or relating to a phytopathogen
  • pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
  • publicity agent — A publicity agent is a person whose job is to make sure that a large number of people know about a person, show, or event so that they are successful.
  • radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
  • recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • recycling plant — a factory for processing used or abandoned materials
  • secondary group — a group of people with whom one's contacts are detached and impersonal.
  • sharing economy — a system in which people rent, borrow, or share commodities, services, and resources owned by individuals, usually with the aid of online technology, in an effort to save money, cut costs, and reduce waste.
  • significatively — serving to signify.
  • synergistically — pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling synergy: a synergistic effect.
  • syngeneic graft — a tissue or organ transplanted from one member of a species to another, genetically identical member of the species, as a kidney transplanted from one identical twin to the other.
  • technologically — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • training agency — (in Britain, formerly) an organization providing training and retraining for adult workers
  • tubal pregnancy — pregnancy that grows in fallopian tube
  • unchallengeably — in a way that cannot be challenged; in an unchallengeable manner
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • valency grammar — a system of linguistic syntax, conceived by analogy with chemical valency, according to which verbs have valencies dependent on the number of noun phrases with which they combine
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