16-letter words containing c, y, g
- cytotechnologist — a technician who specializes in identifying cells and cellular abnormalities.
- d-glyceraldehyde — an isomer of glyceraldehyde in which the OH group is on the right side of the asymmetric carbon atom.
- 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.
- debating society — a club, e.g. at a school or university, which regularly holds debates
- delaying tactics — techniques used to delay sth
- dendrochronology — the study of the annual rings of trees, used esp to date past events
- depth psychology — the study of unconscious motives and attitudes
- dermatologically — In a dermatological way.
- diagrammatically — in the form of a diagram; graphic; outlined.
- discographically — In terms of discography.
- discriminatingly — With discrimination.
- doctor's surgery — A doctor's surgery is the same as a doctor's office.
- drugstore cowboy — a young man who loafs around drugstores or on street corners.
- dual carriageway — divided highway.
- dynamic language — (language) (Dylan) A simple object-oriented Lisp dialect, most closely resembling CLOS and Scheme, developed by Advanced Technology Group East at Apple Computer. See also Marlais.
- dynamic markings — directions and symbols used to indicate degrees of loudness
- 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.
- economic geology — the branch of geology dealing with the location and exploitation of industrial materials obtained from the earth.
- elective surgery — when someone chooses to have an operation which is not absolutely medically necessary
- 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.
- emergency centre — a building used, often temporarily, to coordinate the response to an emergency and to deal with some of the problems that arise during the emergency
- emergency powers — special permission allowing a minister, government, etc to take action in an emergency without having to have their actions approved by parliament
- emergency worker — a person whose job is to help people in emergencies
- energy-efficient — A device or building that is energy-efficient uses relatively little energy to provide the power it needs.
- epigrammatically — In a manner suggesting of an epigram.
- eschatologically — In an eschatological manner.
- ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
- evangelistically — In an evangelistic manner.
- family balancing — the choosing of the sex of a future child on the basis of how many children of each sex a family already has
- flying ambulance — an aircraft used to take sick or injured people to hospital
- 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
- foreign currency — money used in another country
- galenic pharmacy — the art or practice of preparing and dispensing galenicals.
- galvanic battery — battery (def 1a).
- gapless playback — audio or visual playback without any interruptions or silence between tracks or scenes
- garcia y iniguez — Calixto [kah-lees-taw] /kɑˈlis tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1839?–98, Cuban lawyer, soldier, and revolutionist.
- gay-lussac's law — the principle that, for relatively low pressures, the density of an ideal gas at constant pressure varies inversely with the absolute temperature of the gas.
- geoffrey chaucer — Geoffrey, 1340?–1400, English poet.
- geological cycle — Geology. a continuous process by which rocks are created, changed from one form to another, destroyed, and then formed again.
- get on your wick — If you say that someone or something gets on your wick, you mean that they annoy and irritate you.
- giant's causeway — a large body of basalt, unusual in displaying perfect columnar jointing, exposed on a promontory on the northern coast of Northern Ireland.
- global community — the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent
- glottochronology — the branch of lexicostatistics that studies the rate of replacement of vocabulary and attempts to determine what percentage of basic vocabulary two presently distinct but related languages share, using the information thus obtained to estimate how long ago they ceased being a single language.
- glycosylceramide — (organic chemistry) Any glycosyl derivative of a ceramide.
- goolagong cawley — Evonne [ih-von,, ee-von] /ɪˈvɒn,, iˈvɒn/ (Show IPA), born 1951, Australian tennis player.
- granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
- gravity decanter — A gravity decanter is a vessel or stage in which two liquids of different densities are allowed to separate by gravity.