15-letter words containing t, g, s, y, e
- hedge your bets — play it safe, lessen a risk
- hemiglossectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a portion of the tongue.
- heterogeneously — different in kind; unlike; incongruous.
- hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
- ignition system — the system in an internal-combustion engine that produces the spark to ignite the mixture of fuel and air: includes the battery, ignition coil, distributor, spark plugs, and associated switches and wiring.
- indigestibility — The state of being indigestible.
- intertwistingly — by intertwisting
- intransigeantly — intransigently
- isotope geology — the study and application of stable and radioactive isotopes to geological processes and their time scales
- kinesthesiology — The medical and therapeutic study of the movement of muscles and joints.
- legacy software — legacy system
- let yourself go — If you let yourself go, you relax and behave much more freely than usual.
- mesometeorology — the study of atmospheric phenomena of relatively small size, as thunderstorms or tornadoes, and of the detailed structure of larger disturbances.
- montgomeryshire — a historic county in Powys, in central Wales.
- ortega y gasset — José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1883–1955, Spanish philosopher, journalist, and critic.
- pachymeningitis — inflammation of the dura mater of the brain and spinal cord
- packing density — a measure of the amount of data that can be held by unit length of a storage medium, such as magnetic tape
- petty bourgeois — petit bourgeois
- plastic surgery — the branch of surgery dealing with the repair or replacement of malformed, injured, or lost organs or tissues of the body, chiefly by the transplant of living tissues.
- plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
- primary storage — main memory
- property rights — a legal right to or in a particular property.
- psychogeriatric — the psychology of old age.
- reality testing — the objective evaluation of situations, defective in certain psychoses, that enable one to distinguish between the external and the internal worlds and between the self and the nonself.
- registry office — a government office and depository in which records and civil registers are kept and civil marriages performed.
- regulatory risk — a risk to which private companies are subject, arising from the possibility of legislation or regulations that will affect business being adopted by a government
- remonstratingly — in an remonstrating or dissenting manner
- self-justifying — offering excuses for oneself, especially in excess of normal demands.
- self-rectifying — to make, put, or set right; remedy; correct: He sent them a check to rectify his account.
- self-regulatory — Self-regulatory systems, organizations, or activities are controlled by the people involved in them, rather than by outside organizations or rules.
- self-satisfying — effecting satisfaction to oneself.
- sensitizing dye — a dye adsorbed onto the silver halide grains of an emulsion to make the emulsion more sensitive to certain colors.
- sidesplittingly — in a side-splitting manner
- siege mentality — a state of mind whereby one believes that one is being constantly attacked, oppressed, or isolated.
- significatively — serving to signify.
- skylight filter — a very slightly pink filter that absorbs ultraviolet light and reduces haze and excessive blueness
- sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
- soul-destroying — Activities or situations that are soul-destroying make you depressed, because they are boring or because there is no hope of improvement.
- stereologically — by way of stereology or in a stereological manner
- sticky-fingered — given to thieving
- storage battery — a voltaic battery consisting of two or more storage cells.
- sweating system — the practice of employing workers in sweatshops.
- symmetric group — the group of all permutations of a finite set.
- synectics group — a group of people of varied background that meets to attempt creative solutions of problems through the unrestricted exercise of imagination and the correlation of disparate elements.
- synergistically — pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling synergy: a synergistic effect.
- syngeneic graft — a tissue or organ transplanted from one member of a species to another, genetically identical member of the species, as a kidney transplanted from one identical twin to the other.
- syntax language — a metalanguage used to refer to the grammatical or other formal features of an object language.
- system building — a method of building in which prefabricated components are used to speed the construction of buildings
- theory of games — game theory.
- thirtysomething — a person in her or his thirties