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

  • ectopic pregnancy — the development of a fertilized ovum outside the uterus, as in a Fallopian tube.
  • egyptian brackets — (programming, humour)   A humourous term for K&R indent style, referring to the "one hand up in front, one down behind" pose which popular culture inexplicably associates with Egypt.
  • electronegativity — The tendency, or a measure of the ability, of an atom or molecule to attract electrons and thus form bonds.
  • electrotechnology — the technological use of electric power
  • emergency landing — an occasion when a place is forced to land: for example, because of a mechanical fault, bad weather, terrorism, etc.
  • emergency rations — food and drink that is designated for use in an emergency: for example, in a famine, after a plane crash, when hill-walkers or mountaineers are stranded, etc.
  • emergency service — a department within a bigger organization that deals with emergencies
  • emergency session — an urgent meeting held by parliament, ministers, etc. to discuss what measures should be taken to deal with an emergency
  • employment agency — company: finds jobs
  • empty element tag — tag
  • energy conversion — the process of changing one form of energy into another, such as nuclear energy into heat or solar energy into electrical energy
  • energy efficiency — a measure of how efficiently an appliance, building, organization or country uses energy
  • escaping tendency — a property of a gas, related to its partial pressure, that expresses its tendency to escape or expand, given by d(log ef) = dμ/ RT, where μ is the chemical potential, R the gas constant, and T the thermodynamic temperature
  • ethnopharmacology — The scientific study correlating ethnic groups, their health, and how it relates to their physical habits and methodology in creating and using medicines.
  • fee-paying school — a school which charges fees to parents of pupils
  • ferrimagnetically — In a ferrimagnetic manner.
  • floating currency — a currency that is free to fluctuate against other currencies in accordance with market forces
  • footmen's gallery — the rearmost section of seats in the balcony of an English theater, especially in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
  • forcing frequency — the frequency of an oscillating force applied to a system
  • foreign secretary — foreign minister.
  • frequency polygon — a frequency curve consisting of connected line segments formed by joining the midpoints of the upper edges of the rectangles in a histogram whose class intervals are of uniform length.
  • fuzzy-wuzzy angel — any native of Papua New Guinea who assisted as a stretcher-bearer in World War II
  • game as ned kelly — extremely brave; indomitable
  • garden strawberry — a plant which has white flowers and red edible fruits and is spread by runners, Fragaria ananassa
  • garlic mayonnaise — mayonnaise flavoured with garlic
  • gastroenterostomy — the making of a new passage between the stomach and the duodenum (gastroduodenostomy) or, especially, the jejunum (gastrojejunostomy)
  • gastrojejunostomy — See under gastroenterostomy.
  • general paralysis — a syphilitic brain disorder characterized by chronic inflammation and degeneration of cerebral tissue resulting in mental and physical deterioration.
  • general secretary — the chief administrator of an organization
  • geothermal energy — Geothermal energy is energy from temperature differences inside the earth's crust.
  • gibbs free energy — the thermodynamic function of a system that is equal to its enthalpy minus the product of its absolute temperture and entropy: a decrease in the function is equal to the maximum amount of work available exclusive of that due to pressure times volume change during a reversible, isothermal, isobaric process.
  • glory-of-the-snow — any of several plants belonging to the genus Chionodoxa, of the lily family, native to the Old World, having showy, blue, white, or pink flowers that bloom early in the spring.
  • go to the country — If a head of government or a government goes to the country, they hold a general election.
  • guilty conscience — Your conscience is the part of your mind that tells you whether what you are doing is right or wrong. If you have a guilty conscience, you feel guilty about something because you know it was wrong. If you have a clear conscience, you do not feel guilty because you know you have done nothing wrong.
  • gulf war syndrome — a group of symptoms occurring in some Gulf War veterans, most commonly including headache and memory loss, muscle pain, skin disorders, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and gastrointestinal and respiratory ailments, possibly caused by exposure to chemical weapons, vaccines, infectious diseases, or other factors.
  • haemoglobinopathy — (medicine) Any of a group of inherited disorders in which haemoglobin does not function properly.
  • harvey wallbanger — a screwdriver cocktail topped with Galliano.
  • have a roving eye — to show a widespread amorous interest in the opposite sex
  • henry cabot lodge — Henry Cabot, 1850–1924, U.S. public servant and author: senator 1893–1924.
  • henry of portugal — ("the Navigator") 1394–1460, prince of Portugal: sponsor of geographic explorations.
  • heritage industry — an industry that manages the historical sites, buildings, and museums in a particular place, with the aim of encouraging tourism
  • high-density disk — a computer storage disk capable of holding more than 720 kilobytes of data
  • highways engineer — a civil engineer trained and specialized in the planning, construction, maintenance, etc of highways and roads
  • huygens principle — the principle that all points on a wave front of light are sources of secondary waves and that surfaces tangential to these waves define the position of the wave front at any point in time.
  • huygens' eyepiece — a telescope eyepiece consisting of two planoconvex lenses separated by a distance equal to half the sum of their focal lengths, which are in the ratio of three to one, and oriented so that their curved surfaces face the incident light
  • hyaline cartilage — the typical, translucent form of cartilage, containing little fibrous tissue.
  • hydrogen chloride — a colorless gas, HCl, having a pungent odor: the anhydride of hydrochloric acid.
  • hydrogen fluoride — a colorless corrosive gas, HF, the anhydride of hydrofluoric acid, used chiefly as a catalyst and in the fluorination of hydrocarbons.
  • hydrogen peroxide — a colorless, unstable, oily liquid, H 2 O 2 , an aqueous solution of which is used chiefly as an antiseptic and a bleaching agent.
  • hydrogen sulphide — Chemistry
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