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15-letter words containing g, a, r, y

  • cottage country — any lakeside region where many country cottages are located
  • counteractingly — In a way that counteracts.
  • counterstrategy — a strategy designed to counter the effectiveness of another strategy or action
  • country cottage — a small house in the country, esp one used for holidays
  • country dancing — Country dancing is traditional dancing in which people dance in rows or circles.
  • cranberry glass — reddish-pink transparent glassware first made in England and the U.S. in the mid-19th century.
  • cranberry gourd — a South American vine, Abobra tenuifolia, of the gourd family, having deeply lobed, ovate leaves and bearing a berrylike scarlet fruit.
  • credibility gap — A credibility gap is the difference between what a person says or promises and what they actually think or do.
  • cricopharyngeal — of, relating to, or involving the cricoid cartilage and the pharynx.
  • cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
  • crossopterygian — any bony fish of the subclass Crossopterygii, having fleshy limblike pectoral fins. The group, now mostly extinct, contains the ancestors of the amphibians
  • crunchy granola — crisp; brittle.
  • crunchy-granola — characterized by or defining oneself by ecological awareness, liberal political views, and support or use of natural products and health foods.
  • cryptographical — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
  • crystal healing — (in alternative therapy) the use of the supposed power of crystals to affect the human energy field
  • crystallography — the science concerned with the formation, properties, and structure of crystals
  • cyber-squatting — (jargon, networking)   The practice of registering famous brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner at a profit.
  • cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
  • daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
  • daguerreotypist — an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
  • dehydrogenating — Present participle of dehydrogenate.
  • dehydrogenation — to remove hydrogen from (a compound).
  • delivery charge — A delivery charge is the cost of transporting or delivering goods.
  • demographically — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • diffrangibility — the power or capability of being diffracted
  • dishearteningly — In a disheartening manner.
  • dougherty wagon — a horse- or mule-drawn passenger wagon having doors on the side, transverse seats, and canvas sides that can be rolled down.
  • dramaturgically — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
  • dryland farming — a mode of farming, practiced in regions of slight or insufficient rainfall, that relies mainly on tillage methods rendering the soil more receptive of moisture and on the selection of suitable crops.
  • dynamic pricing — the practice of offering goods at a price that changes according to the level of demand, the type of customer, the state of the weather, etc
  • dynamic routing — (networking)   (Or "adaptive routing") Routing that adjusts automatically to network topology or traffic changes.
  • early saxifrage — an eastern North American plant, Saxifraga virginiensis, of the saxifrage family, having toothed basal leaves and branched clusters of small white flowers.
  • egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
  • egyptian jasper — a type of jasper, generally with zones of colour, found in desert regions of Egypt
  • electromyograms — Plural form of electromyogram.
  • electromyograph — A device used in electromyography to generate electromyograms.
  • embryologically — Regarding embryology.
  • emergency brake — hand brake in car
  • encephalography — Any of various techniques for recording the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
  • epeirogenically — in the manner of epeirogeny
  • erythromelalgia — A rare neurovascular peripheral pain disorder in which blood vessels, usually in the lower extremities or hands, are episodically blocked, then become hyperemic and inflamed.
  • estuary english — a variety of standard British English in which the pronunciation reflects various features characteristic of London and the Southeast of England
  • evening prayers — the daily evening service of Bible readings and prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer
  • external galaxy — any galaxy beyond our own galaxy
  • factory farming — Factory farming is a system of farming which involves keeping animals indoors, often with very little space, and giving them special foods so that they grow more quickly or produce more eggs or milk.
  • fairy godfather — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godfather.
  • fairy godmother — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godmother.
  • false pregnancy — physiological signs of pregnancy without conception; pseudocyesis.
  • family grouping — a system, used usually in the infant school, of grouping children of various ages together, esp for project work
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