16-letter words containing g, y
- hyperoxygenation — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
- hypersexualizing — Present participle of hypersexualize.
- hyperventilating — Present participle of hyperventilate.
- hypnagogic image — an image experienced by a person just before falling asleep, which often resembles a hallucination
- hypnagogic state — the drowsy period between wakefulness and sleep, during which fantasies and hallucinations often occur.
- imaginary number — Also called imaginary, pure imaginary number. a complex number having its real part equal to zero.
- immunohematology — the study of blood and blood-forming tissue in relation to the immune response.
- 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
- indefatigability — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
- induced topology — a topology of a subset of a topological space, obtained by intersecting the subset with every open set in the topology of the space.
- inextinguishably — In a way that cannot be extinguished; immortally.
- 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.
- kentucky windage — a method of correcting for windage, gravity, etc., by aiming a weapon to one side of the target instead of by adjusting the sights.
- 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.
- knowledgeability — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- l-glyceraldehyde — the levorotatory optical isomer of glyceraldehyde.
- latent ambiguity — uncertainty that arises when a seemingly clear written instrument is matched against an extrinsic fact, as when a description of something being sold fits two different items.
- 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.
- living daylights — having life; being alive; not dead: living persons.
- lleu llaw gyffes — the son of Gwydion and Arianhrod, provided with a name, weapons, and a wife through the magic and trickery of Gwydion in spite of the curses of Arianhrod.
- 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).
- lymphangiectasia — (medicine) dilation of the lymphatic vessels.
- lymphangiectasis — Alt form lymphangiectasia.
- 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 anomaly — a departure from the normal magnetic field of the earth.
- magnetic pyrites — Mineralogy. pyrrhotite.
- magnetochemistry — the study of magnetic and chemical phenomena in their relation to one another.
- magnifying glass — a lens that produces an enlarged image of an object.
- 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.
- management style — the way in which and the methods someone uses in managing a company, business, etc