16-letter words containing g, y, r
- hyperoxygenation — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
- hypersexualizing — Present participle of hypersexualize.
- hyperventilating — Present participle of hyperventilate.
- imaginary number — Also called imaginary, pure imaginary number. a complex number having its real part equal to zero.
- immunoregulatory — Of or pertaining to immunoregulation.
- in living memory — If you say that something is, for example, the best, worst, or first thing of its kind in living memory, you are emphasizing that it is the only thing of that kind that people can remember.
- in utero surgery — surgery performed on a fetus while it is in the womb.
- inauguration day — the day on which the president of the United States is inaugurated, being January 20 of every year following a year whose number is divisible by four. Prior to the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution (ratified February 6, 1933), it was March 4.
- indecency charge — an accusation of committing indecency
- inflationary gap — the excess of total spending in an economy over the value, at current prices, of the output it can produce
- interstratifying — Present participle of interstratify.
- irregular galaxy — a galaxy with no specific form and a relatively low mass.
- ivyleaf geranium — a geranium plant, pelargonium peltatum, with trailing leaves and white, pink, red, or violet flowers
- johnny foreigner — a person from a country other than those which make up the United Kingdom
- junior flyweight — a boxer weighing up to 108 pounds (48.6 kg), between minimumweight and flyweight.
- keyword indexing — the process of constructing or compiling an index to a document or other item by using keywords that describe the item.
- kingfisher daisy — a bushy southern African plant, Felicia bergerana, having grasslike leaves and solitary, bright-blue flowers.
- l-glyceraldehyde — the levorotatory optical isomer of glyceraldehyde.
- legal dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the various branches of the legal profession, as civil law, criminal law, and corporate law. A comprehensive legal dictionary adds to its body of standard English entries many words and phrases that have made their way into modern legal practice from law French and Latin and are rarely found in a general English monolingual dictionary. Such a specialized dictionary is useful not only for law students and for attorneys themselves, but for members of the lay public who require legal services. Legal dictionaries published in print follow the normal practice of sorting entry terms alphabetically, while electronic dictionaries, such as the online Dictionary of Law on Dictionary.com, allow direct, immediate access to a search term.
- leveraged buyout — the purchase of a company with borrowed money, using the company's assets as collateral, and often discharging the debt and realizing a profit by liquidating the company. Abbreviation: LBO.
- lithographically — In the manner of lithography.
- lloyd's register — a publication, issued annually by Lloyd's, consisting of a list of all of the world's seagoing vessels and including such information as their age, tonnage, and classification.
- long-term memory — information stored in the brain and retrievable over a long period of time, often over the entire life span of the individual (contrasted with short-term memory).
- lymphangiography — x-ray visualization of lymph vessels and nodes following injection of a contrast medium.
- macapagal arroyo — Gloria
- macroclimatology — the study of the climatic conditions of a large area.
- macrometeorology — the study of large-scale atmospheric phenomena, as the general circulation of the air or global weather conditions.
- macrophotography — Photography that is done up close; close-up photography.
- magnetic pyrites — Mineralogy. pyrrhotite.
- magnetochemistry — the study of magnetic and chemical phenomena in their relation to one another.
- malacostracology — (obsolete) carcinology, the study of crustaceans.
- malpighian layer — the deep, germinative layer of the epidermis.
- mammographically — Using a mammograph, by means of mammograph.
- managed currency — a currency whose value is established and maintained by deliberate governmental action working through national and international financial institutions, in contrast to the quasi-automatic gold standard.
- margin of safety — therapeutic index.
- marginal utility — the extra utility or satisfaction derived by a consumer from the consumption of the last unit of a commodity.
- marshalling yard — a place or depot where railway wagons are shunted and made up into trains and where engines, carriages, etc, are kept when not in use
- megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
- megaphanerophyte — any tree with a height over 30 metres
- meteorologically — In meteorological terms; in the context of weather.
- microclimatology — the study of a microclimate.
- microgametophyte — (biology) Any gametophyte that develops from a microspore.
- micrometeorology — the study of local and small-scale atmospheric phenomena, usually confined to the physical and dynamic occurrences within a shallow stratum of air adjacent to the ground.
- microphotography — microfilm (def 1).
- migratory locust — any of several locusts that migrate in great swarms, especially Locusta migratoria, of Africa and Asia.
- minstrel gallery — a gallery in a building meant for use by musicians playing to provide background music or entertainment at a feast or other event
- missionary ridge — a ridge in NW Georgia and SE Tennessee: Civil War battle 1863.
- molybdate orange — a pigment consisting of a solid solution of sulfate, molybdate, and chromate compounds of lead.
- money laundering — Money laundering is the crime of processing stolen money through a legitimate business or sending it abroad to a foreign bank, to hide the fact that the money was illegally obtained.
- montgomery clift — Montgomery, 1920–66, U.S. actor.