15-letter words containing g, y, n, a
- holding company — a company that controls other companies through stock ownership but that usually does not engage directly in their productive operations (distinguished from parent company).
- holiday feeling — the positive feeling people experience while on holiday and during holiday periods such as the Christmas period
- honey tangerine — a citrus fruit with a deep-orange pulp, formed by crossing a tangerine and a sweet orange hybrid; Murcott
- horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
- human geography — the study of the interaction between human beings and their environment in particular places and across spatial areas.
- hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hyperpolarizing — Present participle of hyperpolarize.
- hypomagnesaemia — the condition of having too little magnesium in the blood, particularly in cattle, in which it is also known as lactation tetany
- hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
- ignatius loyola — Saint Ignatius of (Iñigo López de Loyola) 1491–1556, Spanish soldier and ecclesiastic: founder of the Society of Jesus.
- immunologically — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
- immunopathology — the study of diseases having an immunologic or allergic basis.
- indy car racing — a US form of professional motor racing around banked oval tracks
- infrared galaxy — a galaxy that radiates strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- insignificantly — Of such extremely small quantity or degree that it is not worth measuring.
- interchangeably — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
- internal energy — a function of thermodynamic variables, as temperature, that represents the internal state of a system that is due to the energies of the molecular constituents of the system. The change in internal energy during a process is equal to the net heat entering the system minus the net work done by the system. Symbol: U.
- interrogatingly — So as to interrogate; with urgent or bullying questioning.
- interrogatively — In an interrogative manner; by means of a question.
- intransigeantly — intransigently
- island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
- knight errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
- knight-errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
- lady's-earrings — any of several plants having pendent flowers thought to resemble earrings, as the jewelweed or the fuchsia.
- lady-in-waiting — a lady who is in attendance upon a queen or princess.
- lake tanganyika — a lake in central Africa between Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo, bordering also on Burundi and Zambia, in the Great Rift Valley: the longest freshwater lake in the world. Area: 32 893 sq km (12 700 sq miles). Length: 676 km (420 miles)
- language lawyer — A person, usually an experienced or senior software engineer, who is intimately familiar with many or most of the numerous restrictions and features (both useful and esoteric) applicable to one or more computer programming languages. A language lawyer is distinguished by the ability to show you the five sentences scattered through a 200-page manual that together imply the answer to your question "if only you had thought to look there". Compare wizard, legal, legalese.
- large cranberry — See under cranberry (def 1).
- laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
- laryngotracheal — of, relating to, or involving the larynx and trachea.
- laser ring gyro — a system of aerial navigation in which rotation is sensed by the measuring of the frequency shift of laser light in a closed circuit in a horizontal plane
- lay a finger on — to harm
- lending library — Also called circulating library, rental library. a small library that is maintained by a commercial establishment, as a drugstore, and is composed largely of current books that are lent to customers for a fee.
- library binding — a tough, durable cloth binding for books. Compare edition binding.
- linear topology — (theory) A linear topology on a left A-module M is a topology on M that is invariant under translations and admits a fundamental system of neighborhood of 0 that consists of submodules of M. If there is such a topology, M is said to be linearly topologized. If A is given a discrete topology, then M becomes a topological A-module with respect to a linear topology.
- logging company — a company that fells trees and sells timber
- lymphogranuloma — any of certain diseases characterized by granulomatous lesions of lymph nodes.
- magnetic pulley — a magnetic device for separating metal from sand, refuse, etc.
- magnetorheology — the study of the relationships between the particle and fluid properties of magnetic suspensions.
- magnolia family — the plant family Magnoliaceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, often showy flowers with a spiral arrangement of their floral parts, and conelike fruit, and including the cucumber tree, magnolia, tulip tree, and umbrella tree.
- mahogany family — the plant family Meliaceae, characterized by tropical and subtropical trees and shrubs having alternate, pinnate leaves, usually branched clusters of flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or leathery capsule, and including the chinaberry, cedars of the genus Cedrela, and mahoganies of the genera Swietenia and Khaya.
- malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
- malpighian body — Also called kidney corpuscle, Malpighian body. the structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule.
- managed economy — an economy in which the government allocates prices of goods and resources
- maternity grant — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a flat-rate benefit for pregnant women on low incomes
- metacognitively — In a metacognitive way.
- microangiopathy — any disease of the small blood vessels.
- mineralogically — With regard to mineralogy.
- moreton bay bug — a flattish edible shellfish, Thenus orientalis, of Northern Australian waters
- moreton bay fig — a large Australian fig tree, Ficus macrophylla, having glossy leaves and smooth bark