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15-letter words containing g, y

  • 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.
  • ignatius loyola — Saint Ignatius of (Iñigo López de Loyola) 1491–1556, Spanish soldier and ecclesiastic: founder of the Society of Jesus.
  • ignition system — the system in an internal-combustion engine that produces the spark to ignite the mixture of fuel and air: includes the battery, ignition coil, distributor, spark plugs, and associated switches and wiring.
  • immunohistology — the microscopic study of tissues with the aid of antibodies that bind to tissue components and reveal their presence.
  • 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.
  • incorrigibility — not corrigible; bad beyond correction or reform: incorrigible behavior; an incorrigible liar.
  • indigestibility — The state of being indigestible.
  • 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.
  • inhomogeneously — lack of homogeneity.
  • insignificantly — Of such extremely small quantity or degree that it is not worth measuring.
  • intelligent key — (database)   A relational database key which depends wholly on one or more other columns in the same table. An intelligent key might be identified for implementation convenience, where there is no good candidate key. For example, if the three-letter initials of a group of people are known to be unique but only their full names are recorded, a three letter acronym for their names (e.g. John Doe Smith -> JDS) would be an intelligent key. Intelligent keys are a Bad Thing because it is hard to guarantee uniqueness, and if the value on which an intelligent key depends changes then the key must either stay the same, creating an inconsistency within the containing table, or change, requiring changes to all other tables in which it appears as a foreign key. The correct solution is to use a surrogate key.
  • intelligibility — the quality or condition of being intelligible; capability of being understood.
  • 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.
  • intertwistingly — by intertwisting
  • intransigeantly — intransigently
  • irrefragability — How irrefragable something is.
  • island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
  • 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
  • jingling johnny — crescent (def 6).
  • jog sb's memory — If something or someone jogs your memory, they cause you to suddenly remember something that you had forgotten.
  • keyhole surgery — operation done by laparoscopy
  • keying sequence — a sequence made up of letters or numbers that can encode or decode a polyalphabetic substitution cipher one letter at a time.
  • kinesthesiology — The medical and therapeutic study of the movement of muscles and joints.
  • knight errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
  • knight-errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
  • ladies' gallery — a gallery in the old House of Commons set aside for women spectators
  • 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
  • legacy software — legacy system
  • 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.
  • lepidopterology — the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.
  • let yourself go — If you let yourself go, you relax and behave much more freely than usual.
  • lexicologically — Describing a relation to lexicology.
  • library binding — a tough, durable cloth binding for books. Compare edition binding.
  • light artillery — guns and howitzers of small caliber.
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