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16-letter words containing l, g, y

  • glossopharyngeal — of or relating to the tongue and pharynx.
  • glottochronology — the branch of lexicostatistics that studies the rate of replacement of vocabulary and attempts to determine what percentage of basic vocabulary two presently distinct but related languages share, using the information thus obtained to estimate how long ago they ceased being a single language.
  • glycosylceramide — (organic chemistry) Any glycosyl derivative of a ceramide.
  • go for your life — an expression of encouragement
  • go to any length — the longest extent of anything as measured from end to end: the length of a river.
  • goolagong cawley — Evonne [ih-von,, ee-von] /ɪˈvɒn,, iˈvɒn/ (Show IPA), born 1951, Australian tennis player.
  • goosefoot family — formerly, the plant family Chenopodiaceae, characterized by often weedy herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually alternate leaves, small and inconspicuous flowers, and tiny, dry fruit, and including the beet, glasswort, goosefoot, Russian thistle, saltbush, and spinach; now part of the amaranth family, Amaranthaceae.
  • grammar analysis — (language)   A program written in ABC for answering such questions as "what are the start symbols of all rules", "what symbols can follow this symbol", "which rules are left recursive", and so on. Includes a grammar of ISO Pascal. Version 1 by Steven Pemberton <[email protected]>. Ports to Unix, MS-DOS, Atari, Macintosh. FTP: ftp.eu.net, ftp.nluug.net programming/languages/abc/examples/grammar/.
  • granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
  • grape phylloxera — See under phylloxera.
  • gravity platform — (in the oil industry) a drilling platform that rests directly on the sea bed and is kept in position by its own weight; it is usually made of reinforced concrete
  • gravity railroad — a railroad depending partly on the force of gravity for motive power.
  • greater-doxology — Gloria in Excelsis Deo.
  • hardrock geology — (loosely) of or relating to igneous or metamorphic rocks, as in mining (hard-rock mining) and geology (hard-rock geology)
  • hieroglyphically — In hieroglyphics.
  • horary astrology — a method through which the answer to a question is sought by casting and interpreting a horoscope for the precise moment one learns of an event, problem, career opportunity, etc.
  • hydraulic mining — placer mining using a pressurized stream of water.
  • hydrogen sulfide — a colorless, flammable, water-soluble, cumulatively poisonous gas, H 2 S, having the odor of rotten eggs: used chiefly in the manufacture of chemicals, in metallurgy, and as a reagent in laboratory analysis.
  • hydrologic cycle — the natural sequence through which water passes into the atmosphere as water vapor, precipitates to earth in liquid or solid form, and ultimately returns to the atmosphere through evaporation.
  • hydrometeorology — the study of atmospheric water, especially precipitation, as it affects agriculture, water supply, flood control, power generation, etc.
  • hyperintelligent — having good understanding or a high mental capacity; quick to comprehend, as persons or animals: an intelligent student.
  • hypersexualizing — Present participle of hypersexualize.
  • hyperventilating — Present participle of hyperventilate.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • junior flyweight — a boxer weighing up to 108 pounds (48.6 kg), between minimumweight and flyweight.
  • 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.
  • magnetic anomaly — a departure from the normal magnetic field of the earth.
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