14-letter words containing g, y, u
- electrosurgery — Surgery using a high-frequency electric current to heat and so cut tissue with great precision.
- emergency fund — a sum of money set aside by a country, group, or organization for use in an emergency
- equiangularity — the state of being equiangular
- ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
- eugeosynclinal — of or relating to a eugeosyncline
- eulogistically — In the form or manner of a eulogy; with praise.
- excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
- faculty lounge — a staffroom
- fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
- feng yu-hsiang — ("Christian General") 1880–1948, Chinese general.
- fertility drug — a substance that enhances the ability to produce young.
- flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
- flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
- flying gurnard — any marine fish of the family Dactylopteridae, especially Dactylopterus volitans, having greatly enlarged, colorful pectoral fins that enable it to glide short distances through the air.
- forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
- frozen yoghurt — a dessert made from sweetened yoghurt that has been frozen
- funnily enough — You use funnily enough to indicate that, although something is surprising, it is true or really happened.
- galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
- gene frequency — the frequency of occurrence of a particular allele in a population
- geosynchronous — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
- get a guernsey — to be selected or gain recognition for something
- get funny with — to be impudent to
- glutaraldehyde — a nonflammable liquid, C 5 H 8 O 2 , soluble in water and alcohol, toxic and an irritant, used for tanning leather and as a fixative for samples to be examined under the electron microscope.
- glyceryl group — the trivalent group (C 3 H 5)− 3 , derived from glycerol.
- graduation day — the day on which the ceremony is held at which university or college degrees and diplomas are conferred
- granny dumping — the abandonment of an elderly person, especially a relative, at a hospital, bus station, etc.
- great yarmouth — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- green currency — a currency whose value is adjusted in accordance with fluctuations between the currencies of the EU nations
- greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
- group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
- group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
- guantanamo bay — a bay on the SE coast of Cuba.
- guatemala city — a republic in N Central America. 42,042 sq. mi. (108,889 sq. km).
- guided imagery — a relaxation technique in which words, sounds, etc., are used to evoke positive mental images, feelings, and thoughts.
- gulf of anadyr — an inlet of the Bering Sea, off the coast of NE Russia
- gulf of cambay — an inlet of the Arabian Sea on the W coast of India, southeast of the Kathiawar Peninsula
- guy fawkes day — (in Britain) November 5, celebrating the anniversary of the capture of Guy Fawkes.
- gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
- gynomonoecious — having both female and hermaphrodite flowers on the same plant.
- gypsum plaster — plaster made primarily of gypsum.
- haight-ashbury — a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.
- happy-go-lucky — trusting cheerfully to luck; happily unworried or unconcerned.
- hardy ageratum — the mistflower.
- hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
- heterologously — In a heterologous manner.
- high frequency — the range of frequencies in the radio spectrum between 3 and 30 megahertz.
- huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
- hugger-muggery — hugger-mugger (defs 1, 2).
- hungry viewkit — (operating system, library) A C++ class library for developing Motif application programs (although this restriction will be lifted once LessTif is finished). It follows the API of the Iris(tm) ViewKit, put out by SGI. The Hungry ViewKit is a superset of the Iris ViewKit, so any code developed for the Iris version will work with the Hungry version, but possibly not vice versa.
- hydroxyl group — the univalent group –OH, as in inorganic compounds, such as sodium hydroxide, NaOH, or as in organic compounds, such as ethyl alcohol, C 2 H 6 O.