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14-letter words containing e, a, g, l, y

  • easy listening — middle-of-the-road (def 3).
  • easy-listening — Also called easy listening. popular music having comparatively conventional, melodic qualities and hence having broad commercial appeal.
  • egocentrically — In an egocentric manner.
  • electromyogram — A record or display produced by electromyography.
  • embarrassingly — In an embarrassing manner.
  • emergency call — a telephone call to the emergency services made during an emergency
  • encompassingly — So as to encompass.
  • energy balance — An energy balance is a consideration of the energy input, output, and consumption or generation in a process or stage.
  • entertainingly — In an entertaining manner.
  • epexegetically — In an epexegetic manner.
  • epigenetically — By means of, or in terms of, epigenesis or epigenetics.
  • epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
  • equiangularity — the state of being equiangular
  • ethnologically — In an ethnological manner or fashion.
  • etymologically — (domain) Based on or belonging to etymology.
  • eugeosynclinal — of or relating to a eugeosyncline
  • eulogistically — In the form or manner of a eulogy; with praise.
  • exacerbatingly — In an exacerbating way; so as to aggravate or make worse.
  • exasperatingly — In an exasperating manner; frustratingly.
  • excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
  • exhilaratingly — In a way that exhilarates.
  • faculty lounge — a staffroom
  • family viewing — television programmes that are suitable for both adults and children
  • flying machine — a vehicle that sustains itself in and propels itself through the air; an airplane, helicopter, glider, or the like.
  • flying trapeze — a trapeze used in performing gymnastic displays high above the ground
  • gallery forest — a narrow strip of woods or forest along the banks of a watercourse flowing through open country.
  • galley kitchen — a household kitchen designed with kitchen units on both sides and no kitchen table
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
  • ganglionectomy — the excision of a ganglion.
  • gascoyne-cecil — Robert Arthur Talbot [tawl-buh t] /ˈtɔl bət/ (Show IPA), 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, Salisbury (def 1).
  • gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
  • genealogically — Using genealogical methods.
  • generationally — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
  • genethliacally — from a genethliac point of view
  • gentian family — the plant family Gentianaceae, typified by herbaceous plants having simple opposite leaves, usually blue flowers with five united petals, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the closed gentian, fringed gentian, centaury, exacum, and marsh pink.
  • geocentrically — In a geocentric manner.
  • geognostically — with reference to a knowledge of the structure of the earth
  • geographically — of or relating to geography.
  • geopolitically — According to geopolitics.
  • 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.
  • glutaraldehyde — a nonflammable liquid, C 5 H 8 O 2 , soluble in water and alcohol, toxic and an irritant, used for tanning leather and as a fixative for samples to be examined under the electron microscope.
  • 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
  • glyceraldehyde — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 3 H 6 O 3 , that is an intermediate in carbohydrate metabolism and yields glycerol on reduction.
  • go all the way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • governmentally — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • granary weevil — a reddish-brown weevil, Sitophilus granarius, that infests stored grain.
  • grand ole opry — a successful radio show from Nashville, Tenn., first broadcast on Nov. 28, 1925, noted for its playing of and continuing importance to country music.
  • granny glasses — round spectacles
  • graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
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