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14-letter words containing n, a, y, g

  • exasperatingly — In an exasperating manner; frustratingly.
  • excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
  • exhilaratingly — In a way that exhilarates.
  • faculty lounge — a staffroom
  • family viewing — television programmes that are suitable for both adults and children
  • fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
  • feng yu-hsiang — ("Christian General") 1880–1948, Chinese general.
  • flying gangway — monkey bridge (def 2).
  • flying gurnard — any marine fish of the family Dactylopteridae, especially Dactylopterus volitans, having greatly enlarged, colorful pectoral fins that enable it to glide short distances through the air.
  • flying machine — a vehicle that sustains itself in and propels itself through the air; an airplane, helicopter, glider, or the like.
  • flying trapeze — a trapeze used in performing gymnastic displays high above the ground
  • forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
  • galley kitchen — a household kitchen designed with kitchen units on both sides and no kitchen table
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
  • ganglionectomy — the excision of a ganglion.
  • garden variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
  • garden-variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
  • gascoyne-cecil — Robert Arthur Talbot [tawl-buh t] /ˈtɔl bət/ (Show IPA), 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, Salisbury (def 1).
  • gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
  • genealogically — Using genealogical methods.
  • generationally — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
  • genethliacally — from a genethliac point of view
  • gentian family — the plant family Gentianaceae, typified by herbaceous plants having simple opposite leaves, usually blue flowers with five united petals, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the closed gentian, fringed gentian, centaury, exacum, and marsh pink.
  • geocentrically — In a geocentric manner.
  • geognostically — with reference to a knowledge of the structure of the earth
  • gerrymandering — U.S. Politics. the dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength of the other party into as few districts as possible.
  • get a guernsey — to be selected or gain recognition for something
  • get in the way — be an obstacle
  • ginseng family — the plant family Araliaceae, characterized by often prickly herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs having alternate leaves and dense clusters of small, whitish or greenish flowers, and including the devil's-club, ginseng, ivy, schefflera, and wild sarsaparilla.
  • go easy on sth — If you tell someone to go easy on something, you are telling them to use only a small amount of it.
  • governmentally — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • graduation day — the day on which the ceremony is held at which university or college degrees and diplomas are conferred
  • granary weevil — a reddish-brown weevil, Sitophilus granarius, that infests stored grain.
  • grand ole opry — a successful radio show from Nashville, Tenn., first broadcast on Nov. 28, 1925, noted for its playing of and continuing importance to country music.
  • granny dumping — the abandonment of an elderly person, especially a relative, at a hospital, bus station, etc.
  • granny glasses — round spectacles
  • grape hyacinth — any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
  • great pyrenees — one of a breed of large dogs having a heavy, white coat, raised originally in the Pyrenees for herding sheep and as a watchdog.
  • greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
  • groote eylandt — an island in the Gulf of Carpentaria off the coast of NE Australia. 950 sq. mi. (2461 sq. km).
  • group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
  • guantanamo bay — a bay on the SE coast of Cuba.
  • gulf of anadyr — an inlet of the Bering Sea, off the coast of NE Russia
  • gynaecological — Alternative spelling of gynecological.
  • gynandromorphs — Plural form of gynandromorph.
  • hanging valley — a valley, the lower end of which opens high above a shore, usually caused by the rapid erosion of a cliff.
  • happy slapping — the practice of attacking, esp slapping, an unsuspecting passer-by and filming it with a mobile camera phone, footage of which is then circulated for the amusement of others
  • heartrendingly — In a heartrending manner.
  • heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
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