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

  • pin grid array — (hardware)   (PGA) A style of integrated circuit socket or pin-out with pins laid out on a square or rectangular grid with a separation of 0.1 inch in each direction. The pins near the centre of the array are often missing. PGA is often used on motherboards for processors, e.g. Socket 6 and Socket 8. PPGA is "plastic PGA" (as opposed to ceramic?). See also SPGA.
  • plane geometry — the geometry of figures whose parts all lie in one plane.
  • player-manager — In football and some other sports, a player-manager is a person who plays for a team and also manages the team.
  • poetry reading — a public recital or rendering of a poem
  • porgy and bess — an opera (1935) with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
  • post-pregnancy — the state, condition, or quality of being pregnant.
  • potty training — teaching an infant to use the toilet
  • prayer meeting — a meeting chiefly for prayer.
  • praying mantis — mantis.
  • predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
  • pregnancy test — diagnostic kit for determining pregnancy
  • prognostically — of or relating to prognosis.
  • progressionary — relating to progression
  • propitiatingly — to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate.
  • psychogalvanic — pertaining to or involving electric changes in the body resulting from reactions to mental or emotional stimuli.
  • pyongyangology — the study and analysis of the policies and practices of the North Korean communist regime
  • pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
  • quadrangularly — in a quadrangular manner
  • query language — the instructions and procedures used to retrieve information from a database
  • racing bicycle — a bicycle designed for cycling on roads or taking part in road cycling races
  • racing cyclist — a cyclist who takes part in bicycle races
  • radiant energy — energy transmitted in wave motion, especially electromagnetic wave motion.
  • railway engine — a self-propelled engine used for drawing or pushing trains along railway tracks; locomotive
  • rallying point — A rallying point is a place, event, or person that people are attracted to as a symbol of a political group or ideal.
  • rangeley lakes — chain of lakes in W Me. & NE N.H.
  • refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
  • relay language — a language, usually an internationally dominant one, which acts as a medium to translate other usually little-spoken languages
  • röntgenography — radiography
  • royal highness — a title used prior to 1917 and designating a brother, sister, child, grandchild, aunt, or uncle belonging to the male line of the royal family. a title used since 1917 and designating a child or grandchild of the sovereign. any person given this title by the Crown.
  • sailing dinghy — a small boat or dinghy with a single mast, used esp for recreational sailing
  • salivary gland — any of several glands, as the submaxillary glands, that secrete saliva.
  • sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
  • secondary gain — any advantage, as increased attention, disability benefits, or release from unpleasant responsibilities, obtained as a result of having an illness (distinguished from primary gain).
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • semi-legendary — somewhat legendary; having something of the nature of a legend; almost legendary
  • seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
  • shabby-genteel — trying to maintain dignity and self-respect despite shabbiness.
  • shabby-looking — appearing old and in bad condition
  • sherry vinegar — a gourmet wine vinegar produced in the Jerez region of S Spain
  • shooting party — a social gathering when people shoot game together
  • sivananda yoga — a gentle form of yoga which concentrates on breathing control, stretching, and silent meditation
  • skiing holiday — a holiday taken (esp to somewhere that it snows) for the purpose of going skiing
  • stagflationary — of, caused by, or relating to, stagflation
  • stay stitching — a line of stitches made in the seam allowance to prevent the edges from stretching
  • stay the night — If you stay the night in a place, you sleep there for one night.
  • stony tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 1550 km (960 miles) long
  • storming party — a group deployed to make the first assault on a position or building
  • strange to say — surprisingly
  • subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
  • sugar refinery — place where sugar is processed
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