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17-letter words containing g, r, e, a, t, y

  • 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
  • hyaline cartilage — the typical, translucent form of cartilage, containing little fibrous tissue.
  • hyperpigmentation — coloration, especially of the skin.
  • ideogrammatically — In terms of, or by means of, ideograms.
  • irrigation system — a system of supplying (land) with water by means of artificial canals, ditches, etc, esp to promote the growth of food crops
  • italian greyhound — one of an Italian breed of toy dogs resembling a greyhound.
  • literacy campaign — a campaign designed to reduce illiteracy and promote literacy in a country, area, etc
  • marriage equality — the state of having the same rights and responsibilities of marriage as others, regardless of one's sexual orientation or gender identity.
  • memory management — (memory management, storage)   A collection of techniques for providing sufficient memory to one or more processes in a computer system, especially when the system does not have enough memory to satisfy all processes' requirements simultaneously. Techniques include swapping, paging and virtual memory. Memory management is usually performed mostly by a hardware memory management unit.
  • mercantile agency — commercial agency.
  • micropaleontology — the branch of paleontology dealing with the study of microscopic fossils.
  • military governor — the military officer in command of a military government.
  • motorcycle racing — sport: competing on motorcycles
  • mundane astrology — the astrology of worldly events, in contrast to the astrology of the individual: used especially in interpretations and forecasts involving politics, the stock market, weather, and disasters.
  • myasthenia gravis — a disease of impaired transmission of motor nerve impulses, characterized by episodic muscle weakness and easy fatigability, especially of the face, tongue, neck, and respiratory muscles: caused by autoimmune destruction of acetylcholine receptors. Abbreviation: MG.
  • naked singularity — an infinitely dense point mass without a surrounding black hole
  • negative polarity — the grammatical character of a word or phrase, such as ever or any, that may normally be used only in a semantically or syntactically negative or interrogative context
  • organic chemistry — the branch of chemistry, originally limited to substances found only in living organisms, dealing with the compounds of carbon.
  • paleoanthropology — the study of the origins and predecessors of the present human species, using fossils and other remains.
  • partially sighted — unable to see properly so that even with corrective aids normal activities are prevented or seriously hindered
  • pastoral theology — the branch of theology dealing with the responsibilities of members of the clergy to the people under their care.
  • paymaster general — a government minister responsible for making payments by government departments
  • phantom pregnancy — the occurrence of signs of pregnancy, such as enlarged abdomen and absence of menstruation, when no embryo is present, due to hormonal imbalance
  • popular etymology — folk etymology.
  • powder metallurgy — the art or science of manufacturing useful articles by compacting metal and other powders in a die, followed by sintering.
  • predatory pricing — If a company practises predatory pricing, it charges a much lower price for its products or services than its competitors in order to force them out of the market.
  • progressive party — a political party formed in 1912 under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt, advocating popular control of government, direct primaries, the initiative, the referendum, woman suffrage, etc.
  • pythagorean scale — the major scale as derived acoustically by Pythagoras from the perfect fifth.
  • ready and waiting — If you want to emphasize that a person is properly prepared for something, or that something can now be used, you can say that they are ready and waiting.
  • regent honeyeater — a large brightly-coloured Australian honeyeater, Zanthomiza phrygia
  • regulated tenancy — (in Britain) the letting of a dwelling by a nonresident private landlord, usually at a registered fair rent, from which the landlord cannot evict the tenant without a possession order from a court
  • repertory catalog — a catalog containing bibliographic records that indicate locations of materials in more than one library or in several units of one library.
  • revealed theology — theology based on the doctrine that all religious truth is derived exclusively from the revelations of God to humans.
  • rub the wrong way — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
  • secretary-general — the head or chief administrative officer of a secretariat.
  • separation energy — binding energy (def 1).
  • split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
  • stage-door johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
  • stationary engine — an engine mounted in a fixed position, as one used for driving generators, compressors, etc.
  • statutory meeting — company shareholders' discussion
  • stereolithography — a process for creating three-dimensional objects using a computer-controlled laser to build up the required structure, layer by layer, from a liquid photopolymer that solidifies.
  • stereophotography — photography producing stereoscopic images.
  • tenancy agreement — property rental contract
  • to drag your feet — If you drag your feet or drag your heels, you delay doing something or do it very slowly because you do not want to do it.
  • urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
  • variable-geometry — denoting an aircraft in which the wings are hinged to give the variable aspect ratio colloquially known as a swing-wing
  • visitors' gallery — a balcony in a building such as a parliament or court where members of the public can sit
  • yesterday evening — during the evening of the day preceding today
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