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14-letter words containing p, y, o, g

  • happy-go-lucky — trusting cheerfully to luck; happily unworried or unconcerned.
  • hieroglyphical — Hieroglyphic: related to or resembling hieroglyphs.
  • highway patrol — a state law-enforcement organization whose officers safeguard the highways.
  • histopathology — the science dealing with the histological structure of abnormal or diseased tissue; pathological histology.
  • historiography — the body of literature dealing with historical matters; histories collectively.
  • hydrographical — Hydrographic.
  • hydroxyl group — the univalent group –OH, as in inorganic compounds, such as sodium hydroxide, NaOH, or as in organic compounds, such as ethyl alcohol, C 2 H 6 O.
  • hygroscopicity — absorbing or attracting moisture from the air.
  • hypergeometric — of or relating to operations or series that transcend ordinary geometrical operations or series
  • hypergolically — in a hypergolic manner
  • hyperosteogeny — excessive bone development.
  • hyperoxygenate — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
  • hypertrophying — abnormal enlargement of a part or organ; excessive growth.
  • hypoallergenic — designed to reduce or minimize the possibility of an allergic response, as by containing relatively few or no potentially irritating substances: hypoallergenic cosmetics.
  • hypophalangism — the condition of having fewer than the normal number of phalanges per finger or toe.
  • ichthyophagist — a person who eats or subsists on fish.
  • ichthyophagous — the practice of eating or subsisting on fish.
  • infant prodigy — an exceptionally talented child
  • isocyano group — the univalent group −NC.
  • jiggery-pokery — trickery, hocus-pocus; fraud; humbug.
  • laryngopharynx — the lower part of the pharynx, above the larynx.
  • laryngoscopies — Plural form of laryngoscopy.
  • lending policy — a set of guidelines and criteria developed by a bank and used by its employees to determine whether an applicant for a loan should be granted or refused the loan
  • lymphangiogram — an X-ray of the lymphatic system taken after a contrast agent has been injected, often used to diagnose lymphoma
  • lymphoglandula — (anatomy) An alternative name for a lymph node.
  • medigap policy — A Medigap policy is a private extra health insurance plan in the U.S. that provides coverage for medical expenses that are not or only partially covered by Medicare.
  • megascopically — macroscopically
  • megasporophyll — a sporophyll producing megasporangia only.
  • memory mapping — a technique whereby computer peripherals may be addressed as though they formed part of the main memory of the computer
  • metapsychology — speculative thought dealing systematically with concepts extending beyond the limits of psychology as an empirical science.
  • micropathology — the branch of pathology dealing with the microscopic study of changes that occur in tissues and cells during disease.
  • minority group — minority (defs 3, 4).
  • morning prayer — matin (def 1c).
  • myocardiograph — an instrument for recording the movements of the heart.
  • myrmecophagous — Pertaining to the anteater.
  • naphthyl group — Also called alpha-naphthyl group, alpha-naphthyl radical. the univalent group C 1 0 H 7 –, having a replaceable hydrogen atom in the first, or alpha, position; 1-naphthyl group.
  • nasopharyngeal — the part of the pharynx behind and above the soft palate, directly continuous with the nasal passages. Compare oropharynx (def 2).
  • neurohypnology — a name given to hypnosis by the Scottish physician Braid
  • neuropathology — the pathology of the nervous system.
  • nonhygroscopic — Not hygroscopic.
  • nonphysiologic — of or relating to physiology.
  • northern porgy — a common sparid fish, Stenotomus chrysops, of American coastal regions of the Atlantic
  • oesophagectomy — (surgery) the surgical procedure for the removal of all, or part of the oesophagus.
  • orthopterology — the study of the Orthoptera
  • package policy — an insurance policy which incorporates cover for different types of risk, such as liability and property
  • palaeethnology — the study of prehistoric man
  • palaeopedology — the study of ancient soils
  • paleogeography — the science of representing the earth's geographic features belonging to any part of the geologic past.
  • paleolimnology — the study of ancient lakes from their sediments and fossils.
  • paleontography — the formal description of fossils
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