15-letter words containing g, y, p
- false pregnancy — physiological signs of pregnancy without conception; pseudocyesis.
- family grouping — a system, used usually in the infant school, of grouping children of various ages together, esp for project work
- family planning — the concept or a program of limiting the size of families through the spacing or prevention of pregnancies, especially for economic reasons.
- floating policy — (in marine insurance) a policy that provides protection of a broad nature for shipments of merchandise and that is valid continuously until canceled.
- floating supply — the aggregate supply of ready-to-market goods or securities.
- fuzzy computing — fuzzy logic
- gaia hypothesis — a model of the earth as a self-regulating organism, advanced as an alternative to a mechanistic model.
- geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
- gestalt therapy — holistic psychotherapy
- gramophonically — in a gramophonic manner
- grand old party — G.O.P.
- grandstand play — an ostentatious play, as in a sport, overemphasized deliberately to elicit applause from spectators.
- graphic display — the way in which line drawings and text are displayed
- graphologically — In terms of or by means of graphology.
- greenback party — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
- grey propaganda — propaganda that does not identify its source
- gynandromorphic — (of an organism) Having male and female characteristics.
- haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
- hieroglyphology — the study of hieroglyphic writing.
- high-dependency — needing or providing a more than usually high level of healthcare
- histomorphology — histology.
- histophysiology — the branch of physiology dealing with tissues.
- 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).
- holographically — In a holographic way.
- human geography — the study of the interaction between human beings and their environment in particular places and across spatial areas.
- humphrey bogart — Humphrey (DeForest) ("Bogie"or"Bogey") 1899–57, U.S. motion-picture actor.
- hyetometrograph — an instrument used to record rainfall
- hygroscopically — In a hygroscopic way.
- hyper-energetic — possessing or exhibiting energy, especially in abundance; vigorous: an energetic leader.
- hyperaggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
- hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots
- hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
- 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.
- ideographically — an ideogram.
- immunopathology — the study of diseases having an immunologic or allergic basis.
- isopropyl group — the univalent group C 3 H 7 , an isomer of the propyl group.
- isotope geology — the study and application of stable and radioactive isotopes to geological processes and their time scales
- lepidopterology — the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.
- 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
- lump uncurrying — Chin's generalisation of uncurrying. A curried function taking several tuples as arguments can be transformed to take a single tuple containing all the components of the original tuples.
- lymphogranuloma — any of certain diseases characterized by granulomatous lesions of lymph nodes.
- lynden pindling — Lynden Oscar ("Father of the Bahamas") 1930–2000, Bahamian political leader: first prime minister 1967–92.
- magnetic pulley — a magnetic device for separating metal from sand, refuse, etc.
- 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.
- mass psychology — the study of the behavior of large groups of people.
- megagametophyte — the female gametophyte in seed plants.