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14-letter words containing g, a, y

  • graduation day — the day on which the ceremony is held at which university or college degrees and diplomas are conferred
  • grammaticality — the state or quality of being grammatical.
  • 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 dumping — the abandonment of an elderly person, especially a relative, at a hospital, bus station, etc.
  • granny glasses — round spectacles
  • grape hyacinth — any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
  • graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
  • graveyard stew — milk toast.
  • gravity assist — the technique of using the energy of a gravitational field and the orbital velocity of a planet to change the speed and trajectory of a spacecraft.
  • gray sea eagle — a grayish-brown sea eagle, Haliaetus albicilla, of the Old World and Greenland, having a white tail.
  • great doxology — Gloria in Excelsis Deo.
  • great gray owl — a large, dish-faced, gray owl, Strix nebulosa, of northern North America and western Eurasia, having streaked and barred plumage.
  • great pyrenees — one of a breed of large dogs having a heavy, white coat, raised originally in the Pyrenees for herding sheep and as a watchdog.
  • great yarmouth — a city in SE Massachusetts.
  • greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
  • groote eylandt — an island in the Gulf of Carpentaria off the coast of NE Australia. 950 sq. mi. (2461 sq. km).
  • group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
  • grow away from — lose attachment
  • grylloblattids — Plural form of grylloblattid.
  • guantanamo bay — a bay on the SE coast of Cuba.
  • guatemala city — a republic in N Central America. 42,042 sq. mi. (108,889 sq. km).
  • guided imagery — a relaxation technique in which words, sounds, etc., are used to evoke positive mental images, feelings, and thoughts.
  • gulf of anadyr — an inlet of the Bering Sea, off the coast of NE Russia
  • gulf of cambay — an inlet of the Arabian Sea on the W coast of India, southeast of the Kathiawar Peninsula
  • guy fawkes day — (in Britain) November 5, celebrating the anniversary of the capture of Guy Fawkes.
  • gynaecological — Alternative spelling of gynecological.
  • gynandromorphs — Plural form of gynandromorph.
  • gypsum plaster — plaster made primarily of gypsum.
  • gyroscopically — Using a gyroscope.
  • gyrostabiliser — (British spelling) Alternative form of gyrostabilizer.
  • gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
  • gyrostabilizer — a device for stabilizing a seagoing vessel by counteracting its rolling motion from side to side, consisting essentially of a rotating gyroscope weighing about 1 percent of the displacement of the vessel.
  • haight-ashbury — a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.
  • hanging valley — a valley, the lower end of which opens high above a shore, usually caused by the rapid erosion of a cliff.
  • happy slapping — the practice of attacking, esp slapping, an unsuspecting passer-by and filming it with a mobile camera phone, footage of which is then circulated for the amusement of others
  • happy-go-lucky — trusting cheerfully to luck; happily unworried or unconcerned.
  • hardy ageratum — the mistflower.
  • heartrendingly — In a heartrending manner.
  • heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
  • heating system — a system that provides heat to a building or number of buildings
  • heavy hydrogen — either of the heavy isotopes of hydrogen, especially deuterium.
  • heavy nitrogen — the stable isotope of nitrogen having a mass number of 15.
  • hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
  • hieroglyphical — Hieroglyphic: related to or resembling hieroglyphs.
  • highly charged — electrical
  • highly trained — that has received a lot of academic or physical training
  • highway patrol — a state law-enforcement organization whose officers safeguard the highways.
  • histologically — In an histological manner.
  • histopathology — the science dealing with the histological structure of abnormal or diseased tissue; pathological histology.
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