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

  • sea gooseberry — a comb jelly, especially of the genus Pleurobrachia.
  • secondary gain — any advantage, as increased attention, disability benefits, or release from unpleasant responsibilities, obtained as a result of having an illness (distinguished from primary gain).
  • security guard — a uniformed guard employed by a bank, airport, office building, etc., to maintain security.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • semi-legendary — somewhat legendary; having something of the nature of a legend; almost legendary
  • sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
  • seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
  • serpentiningly — in a winding or sinuous manner
  • seyfert galaxy — one of a group of spiral galaxies with compact, bright nuclei having characteristically broad emission lines suggestive of very hot gases in violent motion at the center.
  • 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
  • sitting pretty — (of a bird) occupying a nest of eggs for hatching.
  • slaughterously — murderously
  • solid geometry — the geometry of solid figures; geometry of three dimensions.
  • sticky fingers — an inclination or tendency to steal or pilfer
  • stirling cycle — a highly efficient thermodynamic cycle in which air or an inert gas is compressed and expanded
  • strange to say — surprisingly
  • strong-eye dog — a dog trained to control sheep by its gaze
  • subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
  • sugar refinery — place where sugar is processed
  • supererogatory — going beyond the requirements of duty.
  • sync-generator — an electronic generator that supplies synchronizing pulses to television scanning and transmitting equipment.
  • system program — a program, as an operating system, compiler, or utility program, that controls some aspect of the operation of a computer (opposed to application program).
  • tailgate party — A tailgate party is a social gathering at which food is served from or near a vehicle, especially in a parking lot before a sports game.
  • tayside region — a former local government region in E Scotland: formed in 1975 from Angus, Kinross-shire, and most of Perthshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Angus, City of Dundee, and Perth and Kinross
  • telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
  • tenzing norgay — 1914–86, Nepalese mountaineer. With Sir Edmund Hillary, he was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest (1953)
  • teratogenicity — the production or induction of malformations or monstrosities, especially of a developing embryo or fetus.
  • tergiversatory — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • 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.
  • topiary garden — a garden that features topiary work
  • trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
  • tumorigenicity — (of cells or a substance) capable of producing tumors.
  • undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
  • unflatteringly — in an unflattering manner
  • unpretendingly — without pretence
  • unrecognizably — in an unrecognizable or unidentifiable manner
  • unreflectingly — in an unreflecting manner
  • upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
  • victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
  • voyage charter — the hire of a ship or aircraft for a specified number of voyages
  • wayfaring tree — a Eurasian shrub, Viburnum lantana, of the honeysuckle family, having finely toothed, ovate leaves and branching clusters of white flowers, growing along roadsides and cultivated as an ornamental in North America.
  • 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.
  • working memory — temporary or short-term recall
  • yard-long bean — asparagus bean.
  • yearly meeting — any of several associations of local Quaker congregations.
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