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15-letter words containing l, o, e, y

  • flying fortress — a heavy bomber, the B-17, with four radial piston engines, widely used over Europe and the Mediterranean by the U.S. Air Force in World War II.
  • food technology — a branch of technology that is involved in the production of food
  • football player — sportsperson: plays football
  • forehand volley — a type of forehand shot played in tennis
  • fountain valley — a city in SW California.
  • free soil party — a former U.S. political party (1848–56) that opposed the extension of slavery in the Territories not yet admitted to statehood.
  • frontal cyclone — any extratropical cyclone associated with a front: the most common cyclonic storm.
  • full employment — all of workforce is employed
  • fully fashioned — (of stockings, knitwear, etc) shaped and seamed so as to fit closely
  • gene technology — manipulation of DNA
  • general holiday — a public holiday
  • geomagnetically — In a geomagnetic way; through geomagnetism.
  • geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
  • geotectonically — from a geotectonic point of view
  • glen canyon dam — Adam Clayton, Jr. 1908–72, U.S. clergyman, politician, and civil-rights leader: congressman 1945–67, 1969–71.
  • gloucester city — a city in W New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
  • glycogenic acid — gluconic acid.
  • glyconeogenesis — gluconeogenesis.
  • golden boy/girl — If you refer to a man as a golden boy or a woman as a golden girl, you mean that they are especially popular and successful.
  • gorlin syndrome — a rare congenital disorder in which cancer destroys the facial skin and causes blindness; skeletal anomalies can also occur
  • governmentality — (sociology) The organized practices (mentalities, rationalities, and techniques) through which subjects are governed and influenced.
  • grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • greenbottle fly — any of several metallic-green blowflies, as Phaenicia sericata.
  • gyrostabilizers — Plural form of gyrostabilizer.
  • haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • heliocentricity — measured or considered as being seen from the center of the sun.
  • heliometrically — By means of, or in terms of, heliometry.
  • hemiglossectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a portion of the tongue.
  • hemodynamically — With regard to hemodynamics.
  • heterocercality — the condition or state of having a heterocercal tail
  • heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
  • heterogeneously — different in kind; unlike; incongruous.
  • heterosexuality — sexual feeling or behavior directed toward a person or persons of the opposite sex.
  • hexahydrothymol — menthol.
  • hexylresorcinol — white or yellowish-white, needle-shaped crystals, C 12 H 18 O 2 , used chiefly as an antiseptic and for the expulsion of intestinal worms.
  • hieroglyphology — the study of hieroglyphic writing.
  • high technology — any technology requiring the most sophisticated scientific equipment and advanced engineering techniques, as microelectronics, data processing, genetic engineering, or telecommunications (opposed to low technology).
  • histochemically — In a histochemical manner.
  • hobbledehoyhood — The period of time of being a hobbledehoy; awkward adolescence.
  • holiday clothes — the clothes worn and bought for travelling on holiday, such as swimwear, skiwear, or clothes for hot or cold weather, etc
  • holiday cottage — a cottage used for accommodation for a family, couple, etc, on holiday
  • holiday feeling — the positive feeling people experience while on holiday and during holiday periods such as the Christmas period
  • holiday village — a park with villas where holidaymakers stay and which has a central area with a shop, entertainment, etc
  • holocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having only crystalline components and no glass
  • holyhead island — former name of Holy Island (def 2).
  • homeopathically — By means of homeopathy.
  • homeostatically — the tendency of a system, especially the physiological system of higher animals, to maintain internal stability, owing to the coordinated response of its parts to any situation or stimulus that would tend to disturb its normal condition or function.
  • homochlamydeous — (of a plant) having a perianth in which the sepals and petals are fused together and indistinguishable
  • horse artillery — cavalry equipped with artillery
  • host-host layer — transport layer
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