16-letter words containing g, h, y
- sharpe's grysbok — either of two small, usually solitary antelopes of southern Africa, Raphicerus melanotis, or R. sharpei (Sharpe's grysbok) having a light to dark reddish-brown coat speckled with white.
- shipping company — business that sends goods overseas
- shooting gallery — a place equipped with targets and used for practice in shooting.
- shopping trolley — A shopping trolley is a large metal basket on wheels which is provided by shops such as supermarkets for customers to use while they are in the shop.
- shorthand typing — shorthand and typing
- social pathology — a social factor, as poverty, old age, or crime, that tends to increase social disorganization and inhibit personal adjustment.
- soft pornography — soft-core pornography.
- speech pathology — the scientific study and treatment of defects, disorders, and malfunctions of speech and voice, as stuttering, lisping, or lalling, and of language disturbances, as aphasia or delayed language acquisition.
- 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.
- spongy-mesophyll — the lower layer of the ground tissue of a leaf, characteristically containing irregularly shaped cells with relatively few chloroplasts and large intercellular spaces.
- 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.
- statutory change — a change in the law
- straight whiskey — pure, unblended whiskey of 80 to 110 proof.
- superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
- tephrochronology — a geochronologic technique based on the dating of layers of volcanic ash.
- thanksgiving day — a national holiday celebrated as a day of feasting and giving thanks for divine favors or goodness, observed on the fourth Thursday of November in the U.S. and in Canada on the second Monday of October.
- 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.
- trimethylglycine — betaine.
- ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
- white globe lily — a bulbous Californian plant, Calochortus albus, of the lily family, having egg-shaped white flowers with a purplish base.
- woody nightshade — bittersweet (def 3).
- x-ray photograph — a radiograph made with x-rays.
- yachting regatta — a sailing competition
- yellow archangel — a Eurasian herbaceous plant (Lamiastrum luteum) that has yellow helmet-shaped flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates)