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14-letter words containing g, y, u

  • ichthyophagous — the practice of eating or subsisting on fish.
  • illuminatingly — In an illuminating manner.
  • imaginary unit — the complex number i.
  • immunogenicity — causing or capable of producing an immune response.
  • impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
  • incontiguously — in an incontiguous or unconnected fashion; discretely
  • interlingually — in an interlingual manner
  • isocyano group — the univalent group −NC.
  • jelly doughnut — a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam and sometimes sprinkled with powdered sugar.
  • jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
  • laughing hyena — an African hyena, Crocuta crocuta, having a yellowish-gray coat with brown or black spots, noted for its distinctive howl.
  • legal currency — money that is officially part of a country's currency
  • lifestyle guru — a person hired to give someone advice on various aspects of his or her life, work, and relationships
  • light industry — consumer goods manufacturing
  • linguistically — of or belonging to language: linguistic change.
  • longitudinally — of or relating to longitude or length: longitudinal measurement.
  • lymphoglandula — (anatomy) An alternative name for a lymph node.
  • magniloquently — In a magniloquent manner.
  • merry-go-round — Also called carousel, carrousel. (in amusement parks, carnivals, etc.) a revolving, circular platform with wooden horses or other animals, benches, etc., on which people may sit or ride, usually to the accompaniment of mechanical or recorded music.
  • michigan rummy — a variety of five hundred rummy in which each player scores his or her melds as played.
  • minority group — minority (defs 3, 4).
  • molly maguires — a secret society organized in Ireland in 1843 to terrorize landlords' agents in order to prevent evictions
  • money-grubbing — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
  • multilingually — In a multilingual manner.
  • museologically — In a museological manner.
  • myrmecophagous — Pertaining to the anteater.
  • naphthyl group — Also called alpha-naphthyl group, alpha-naphthyl radical. the univalent group C 1 0 H 7 –, having a replaceable hydrogen atom in the first, or alpha, position; 1-naphthyl group.
  • nervous energy — an excess of energy that you have when you are apprehensive or worried
  • neurogenically — by neural activity
  • neurohypnology — a name given to hypnosis by the Scottish physician Braid
  • neurologically — the science of the nerves and the nervous system, especially of the diseases affecting them.
  • neuropathology — the pathology of the nervous system.
  • neuroradiology — the branch of radiology dealing with the central nervous system
  • non-regulatory — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
  • nuclear energy — energy released by reactions within atomic nuclei, as in nuclear fission or fusion.
  • nyctaginaceous — belonging to the Nyctaginaceae, the four-o'clock family of plants.
  • osmoregulatory — Of or pertaining to osmoregulation.
  • overgenerously — in an overgenerous manner
  • peanut allergy — a condition of being hypersensitive to peanuts and peanut substances which can lead to severe physical symptoms if peanuts or peanut substances are consumed
  • peanut gallery — Informal. the rearmost and cheapest section of seats in the balcony or the uppermost balcony of a theater.
  • polygon pusher — (Or "rectangle slinger"). A chip designer who spends most of his or her time at the physical layout level (which requires drawing *lots* of multi-coloured polygons).
  • priority guest — A priority guest at a hotel is a regular guest who has special rights, such as early check-in and discounts on food.
  • propenyl group — a univalent group derived from propylene, CH 3 CH=CH−.
  • pseudepigraphy — the false ascription of a piece of writing to an author.
  • public gallery — the gallery in a chamber of Parliament reserved for members of the public who wish to listen to the proceedings
  • pugilistically — a person who fights with the fists; a boxer, usually a professional.
  • pyrometallurgy — the process or technique of refining ores with heat so as to accelerate chemical reactions or to melt the metallic or nonmetallic content.
  • quadrangularly — in a quadrangular manner
  • query language — the instructions and procedures used to retrieve information from a database
  • queuing theory — a theory that deals with providing a service on a waiting line, or queue, especially when the demand for it is irregular and describable by probability distributions, as processing phone calls arriving at a telephone exchange or collecting highway tolls from drivers at tollbooths.
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