14-letter words containing g, r, e, y
- flying trapeze — a trapeze used in performing gymnastic displays high above the ground
- 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.
- freewheelingly — In a freewheeling manner; without constraint.
- 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.
- garden variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
- garden-variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
- gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
- gene frequency — the frequency of occurrence of a particular allele in a population
- 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.
- gerrymandering — U.S. Politics. the dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength of the other party into as few districts as possible.
- get a guernsey — to be selected or gain recognition for something
- glutaraldehyde — a nonflammable liquid, C 5 H 8 O 2 , soluble in water and alcohol, toxic and an irritant, used for tanning leather and as a fixative for samples to be examined under the electron microscope.
- glyceraldehyde — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 3 H 6 O 3 , that is an intermediate in carbohydrate metabolism and yields glycerol on reduction.
- 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.
- granary weevil — a reddish-brown weevil, Sitophilus granarius, that infests stored grain.
- 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.
- granny glasses — round spectacles
- grape hyacinth — any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
- graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
- graveyard stew — milk toast.
- gray sea eagle — a grayish-brown sea eagle, Haliaetus albicilla, of the Old World and Greenland, having a white tail.
- great doxology — Gloria in Excelsis Deo.
- great gray owl — a large, dish-faced, gray owl, Strix nebulosa, of northern North America and western Eurasia, having streaked and barred plumage.
- great pyrenees — one of a breed of large dogs having a heavy, white coat, raised originally in the Pyrenees for herding sheep and as a watchdog.
- great yarmouth — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- green currency — a currency whose value is adjusted in accordance with fluctuations between the currencies of the EU nations
- greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
- groote eylandt — an island in the Gulf of Carpentaria off the coast of NE Australia. 950 sq. mi. (2461 sq. km).
- group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
- guided imagery — a relaxation technique in which words, sounds, etc., are used to evoke positive mental images, feelings, and thoughts.
- gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother
- gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
- gypsum plaster — plaster made primarily of gypsum.
- gyrostabiliser — (British spelling) Alternative form of gyrostabilizer.
- gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
- gyrostabilizer — a device for stabilizing a seagoing vessel by counteracting its rolling motion from side to side, consisting essentially of a rotating gyroscope weighing about 1 percent of the displacement of the vessel.
- hardy ageratum — the mistflower.
- heartrendingly — In a heartrending manner.