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

  • sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
  • 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).
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
  • seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
  • sheep-worrying — the act (of a dog, sheepdog, wolf, etc) of chasing a flock of sheep and biting or injuring the sheep
  • shooting party — a social gathering when people shoot game together
  • slaughterously — murderously
  • solid geometry — the geometry of solid figures; geometry of three dimensions.
  • stagflationary — of, caused by, or relating to, stagflation
  • storming party — a group deployed to make the first assault on a position or building
  • strange to say — surprisingly
  • strong-eye dog — a dog trained to control sheep by its gaze
  • sulfinyl group — the bivalent group >SO.
  • sulfuryl group — the bivalent group, SO 2 , derived from sulfuric acid.
  • sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
  • supererogatory — going beyond the requirements of duty.
  • support buying — buying carried out to support an exchange rate
  • 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).
  • 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
  • thalassography — oceanography, especially that branch dealing with smaller bodies of water, as bays, sounds, and gulfs.
  • thaumatography — a treatise or description of the wonders of the natural world
  • the story goes — it is commonly said or believed
  • theriogenology — the branch of veterinary medicine encompassing all aspects of reproduction.
  • thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
  • topiary garden — a garden that features topiary work
  • transportingly — in a way to be transported or to transport
  • tropologically — in a way which uses figurative language
  • tumorigenicity — (of cells or a substance) capable of producing tumors.
  • unrecognizably — in an unrecognizable or unidentifiable manner
  • vaingloriously — in a vainglorious manner
  • 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
  • working memory — temporary or short-term recall
  • xylopyrography — the technique of making a picture or design on wood using a hot iron or another heated instrument
  • xylotypography — a type of printing using wooden blocks
  • yard-long bean — asparagus bean.
  • yellow yorling — a yellowhammer
  • young marrieds — young married people
  • young offender — a criminal who, according to the law, is not yet an adult but no longer a child
  • zygobranchiate — of or relating to zygobranchs or the Zygobranchia genus
  • zygomatic arch — the bony arch at the outer border of the eye socket, formed by the union of the cheekbone and the zygomatic process of the temporal bone.
  • zygosporangium — a sporangium that bears a zygospore.
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