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14-letter words containing g, e, n, y

  • 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
  • grape hyacinth — any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
  • 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.
  • green currency — a currency whose value is adjusted in accordance with fluctuations between the currencies of the EU nations
  • 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).
  • gynaecological — Alternative spelling of gynecological.
  • gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
  • gynomonoecious — having both female and hermaphrodite flowers on the same plant.
  • hanging valley — a valley, the lower end of which opens high above a shore, usually caused by the rapid erosion of a cliff.
  • 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.
  • high frequency — the range of frequencies in the radio spectrum between 3 and 30 megahertz.
  • highly trained — that has received a lot of academic or physical training
  • huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
  • hungry viewkit — (operating system, library)   A C++ class library for developing Motif application programs (although this restriction will be lifted once LessTif is finished). It follows the API of the Iris(tm) ViewKit, put out by SGI. The Hungry ViewKit is a superset of the Iris ViewKit, so any code developed for the Iris version will work with the Hungry version, but possibly not vice versa.
  • hybrid testing — (testing)   A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
  • hydrogenolysis — decomposition of a compound resulting from its interaction with hydrogen.
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hyper-vigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
  • hyperenergetic — extremely or excessively energetic
  • hyperextending — Present participle of hyperextend.
  • hyperhygienist — Being too hygienic.
  • hyperosteogeny — excessive bone development.
  • hyperoxygenate — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
  • hyperpigmented — Afflicted with hyperpigmentation.
  • hyperthreading — (computing) A form of microprocessor parallelization where each physical processor is treated as two virtual processors.
  • hypertrophying — abnormal enlargement of a part or organ; excessive growth.
  • hypervigilance — state or quality of being vigilant; watchfulness: Vigilance is required in the event of treachery.
  • hypoallergenic — designed to reduce or minimize the possibility of an allergic response, as by containing relatively few or no potentially irritating substances: hypoallergenic cosmetics.
  • iatrogenically — In an iatrogenic manner.
  • immunogenicity — causing or capable of producing an immune response.
  • impregnability — strong enough to resist or withstand attack; not to be taken by force, unconquerable: an impregnable fort.
  • impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
  • in a pig's eye — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • in one's glory — at one's best, happiest, etc.
  • insanely great — (Macintosh community, from Steve Jobs; also BSD Unix people via Bill Joy) Something so incredibly elegant that it is imaginable only to someone possessing the most puissant of hacker-natures.
  • integrated day — teaching that is organized around themes, rather than separate subjects
  • interlingually — in an interlingual manner
  • intermittingly — to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
  • intransigently — In an intransigent manner.
  • jelly doughnut — a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam and sometimes sprinkled with powdered sugar.
  • jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
  • kinetic energy — the energy of a body or a system with respect to the motion of the body or of the particles in the system.
  • laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
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