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16-letter words containing g, e, r, y

  • sphygmomanometer — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
  • sphygmomanometry — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
  • spraying machine — a device for spraying large volumes of liquid, such as insecticide onto crops
  • stagedoor johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
  • standing cypress — a plant, Ipomopsis rubra, of the southern U.S., having feathery leaves and clusters of red and yellow flowers.
  • statutory change — a change in the law
  • stereoregularity — (of a polymer) the degree to which successive configurations in space along the chain follow a simple rule. Also called tacticity. Compare configuration (def 4).
  • storage capacity — amount of room or space
  • straight whiskey — pure, unblended whiskey of 80 to 110 proof.
  • strawberry guava — a shrub or small tree, Psidium littorale, of the myrtle family, native to Brazil, having smooth, grayish-brown bark, leathery leaves, white flowers, and edible, white-fleshed, purplish-red fruit.
  • summary judgment — a judgment, as in an action for debt, that is entered without the necessity of jury trial, based on affidavits of the creditor and debtor that convince the court that there is no arguable issue.
  • superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
  • syncategorematic — Traditional Logic. of or relating to a word that is part of a categorical proposition but is not a term, as all, some, is.
  • systemic grammar — a grammar in which description is founded on the relationships among the various units at different ranks of a language, and in which language is viewed as a system of meaning-creating choices
  • systems engineer — an engineer who specializes in the implementation of production systems.
  • tephrochronology — a geochronologic technique based on the dating of layers of volcanic ash.
  • tertiary college — a college system incorporating the secondary school sixth form and vocational courses
  • the great gatsby — a novel (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
  • the high country — sheep pastures in the foothills of the Southern Alps, New Zealand
  • the king country — an area in the centre of North Island, New Zealand: home of the King Movement, a nineteenth-century Māori separatist movement
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • the nitty-gritty — the basic facts of a matter, situation, etc; the core
  • the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
  • there you are/go — You say 'there you are' or 'there you go' when you are offering something to someone.
  • time sovereignty — control by an employee of the use of his or her time, involving flexibility of working hours
  • to get your oats — to have sexual intercourse regularly
  • tray agriculture — hydroponics.
  • trimethylglycine — betaine.
  • trinitroglycerin — nitroglycerin.
  • vegetable oyster — salsify.
  • ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
  • vinylidene group — the bivalent group C 2 H 2 , derived from ethylene.
  • virgin territory — place never visited
  • windows registry — (operating system)   The database used by Microsoft Windows 95 and later to store all sorts of configuration information such as which program should be used to open a .doc file, DLL registration information, application-specific settings and much more. The Registry is stored in .dat files, one in the user's profile containing their per-user settings and one in the Windows directory containing settings that are global to all users. These are loaded into memory at login. The loaded data appears as a tree with five main branches: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, HKEY_USERS, HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT defines file types and actions, HKEY_CURRENT_USER is an alias for one of the sub-trees of HKEY_USERS and contains user settings that override the global defaults in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. The branches of the tree are called "keys" and are identified by paths like HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion. Any node in the tree can have zero or more "values" which are actually bindings of a name and a value, e.g. "Logon User Name" = "Denis". The value can be of type string, binary, dword (long integer), multi-string value or expandable string value. Windows includes a Registry Editor (regedit.exe).
  • yablonovyy range — a mountain range in the SE Russian Federation in Asia, E of Lake Baikal.
  • yachting regatta — a sailing competition
  • yellow archangel — a Eurasian herbaceous plant (Lamiastrum luteum) that has yellow helmet-shaped flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
  • yellow underwing — any of several species of noctuid moths (Noctua and Anarta species), the hind wings of which are yellow with a black bar
  • ziegler catalyst — any of a group of catalysts, such as titanium trichloride (TiCl3) and aluminium alkyl (Al(CH3)3), that produce stereospecific polymers
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