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14-letter words containing g, r, e, y, h

  • polygon pusher — (Or "rectangle slinger"). A chip designer who spends most of his or her time at the physical layout level (which requires drawing *lots* of multi-coloured polygons).
  • polygraph test — a test carried out using a polygraph, esp used by the police to try to find out whether somebody is telling the truth
  • porphyrogenite — a prince born after his father has succeeded to the throne
  • pre-psychology — the science of the mind or of mental states and processes.
  • property right — a legal right to or in a particular property.
  • pseudepigraphy — the false ascription of a piece of writing to an author.
  • psychic energy — according to Freud, the force that lies behind all mental processes, having its basic source as the id.
  • pterylographic — relating to pterylography
  • pyriphlegethon — Phlegethon (def 1).
  • pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
  • queuing theory — a theory that deals with providing a service on a waiting line, or queue, especially when the demand for it is irregular and describable by probability distributions, as processing phone calls arriving at a telephone exchange or collecting highway tolls from drivers at tollbooths.
  • reflectography — a non-destructive technique which uses infrared light to see beneath the painted surface in works of art in order to obtain information about those artworks
  • rhyparographer — someone who paints rhyparographic pictures
  • röntgenography — radiography
  • royal highness — a title used prior to 1917 and designating a brother, sister, child, grandchild, aunt, or uncle belonging to the male line of the royal family. a title used since 1917 and designating a child or grandchild of the sovereign. any person given this title by the Crown.
  • sheep-worrying — the act (of a dog, sheepdog, wolf, etc) of chasing a flock of sheep and biting or injuring the sheep
  • sherry vinegar — a gourmet wine vinegar produced in the Jerez region of S Spain
  • slaughterously — murderously
  • telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
  • terotechnology — a branch of technology that utilizes management, financial, and engineering expertise in the installation and efficient operation and maintenance of equipment and machinery
  • the story goes — it is commonly said or believed
  • theriogenology — the branch of veterinary medicine encompassing all aspects of reproduction.
  • thomas youngerThomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
  • voyage charter — the hire of a ship or aircraft for a specified number of voyages
  • wild hydrangea — a shrub, Hydrangea arborescens, of the saxifrage family, common throughout the eastern half of the U.S., having egg-shaped leaves and a rounded cluster of white flowers.
  • witchetty grub — the large white larva of any of several species of moth and beetle of Australia, especially of the moth genus Cossus, occurring in decaying wood and traditionally used as food by Aborigines.
  • yield strength — the stress necessary to produce a given inelastic strain in a material.
  • zygobranchiate — of or relating to zygobranchs or the Zygobranchia genus
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