14-letter words containing g, o, r, y
- dactylographer — the study of fingerprints for purposes of identification.
- daguerreotypes — Plural form of daguerreotype.
- daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
- dehydrogenated — Simple past tense and past participle of dehydrogenate.
- dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
- dehydrogenized — Simple past tense and past participle of dehydrogenize.
- demoralizingly — in a demoralizing manner
- demythologizer — a person who removes mythical elements from something
- dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
- disapprovingly — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
- disintegratory — Causing or relating to disintegration.
- drag your feet — dawdle
- dry rot fungus — a fungus, Merulius lacrymans, that causes a common type of dry rot.
- egocentrically — In an egocentric manner.
- electrobiology — (physics, biology) The study of the production and use of electricity by biological organisms.
- electromyogram — A record or display produced by electromyography.
- electrosurgery — Surgery using a high-frequency electric current to heat and so cut tissue with great precision.
- emergency room — hospital: casualty department
- emergency stop — a sudden application of the brakes in a car, such as the driver would need to carry out in an emergency
- energy company — a company that produces energy, such as electricity
- energy obesity — the practice of being wasteful of energy in the form of electricity, fossil fuels, etc, in one's day-to-day life
- enigmatography — the composing or collection of enigmas
- epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
- ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
- ferry crossing — the act or instance of travelling across the sea by ferry
- figwort family — the plant family Scrophulariaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having alternate or opposite leaves, often showy two-lipped or irregular flowers, fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, and including the figwort, foxglove, Indian paintbrush, mullein, speedwell, and snapdragon.
- flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
- flying officer — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a pilot officer but junior to a flight lieutenant in the British and certain other air forces
- foreign policy — a policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives.
- fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
- forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
- frozen yoghurt — a dessert made from sweetened yoghurt that has been frozen
- gallery forest — a narrow strip of woods or forest along the banks of a watercourse flowing through open country.
- galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
- galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
- garbologically — From the perspective of garbology.
- gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
- generationally — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
- geocentrically — In a geocentric manner.
- geochronometry — the determination of the absolute age of earth materials, as by radiometric dating.
- geographically — of or relating to geography.
- geohydrologist — a person who studies geohydrology
- geosynchronous — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
- glyceryl group — the trivalent group (C 3 H 5)− 3 , derived from glycerol.
- goitrogenicity — the potential to cause goitre
- governing body — board, regulatory authority
- governmentally — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- graduation day — the day on which the ceremony is held at which university or college degrees and diplomas are conferred
- 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.