13-letter words containing y, a, g, i, e
- intermarrying — Present participle of intermarry.
- interrogatory — conveying or expressing a question; interrogative.
- intransigency — a person who refuses to agree or compromise, as in politics.
- investigatory — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- key signature — (in notation) the group of sharps or flats placed after the clef to indicate the tonality of the music following.
- kilomegacycle — a unit of frequency, equal to 10 9 cycles per second. Abbreviation: kMc.
- kingsley amis — Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
- land registry — In Britain, a land registry is a government office where records are kept about each area of land in a country or region, including information about who owns it.
- laryngotomies — Plural form of laryngotomy.
- lasik surgery — laser surgery to correct short sight
- legal holiday — a public holiday established by law, during which certain work, government business, etc., is restricted.
- legionary ant — army ant
- legislatively — By legislation, by the method of enacting laws.
- legume family — the large plant family Leguminosae (or Fabaceae), typified by herbaceous plants, shrubs, trees, and vines having usually compound leaves, clusters of irregular, keeled flowers, and fruit in the form of a pod splitting along both sides, and including beans, peas, acacia, alfalfa, clover, indigo, lentil, mesquite, mimosa, and peanut.
- leigh-mallory — Sir Trafford Leigh [traf-erd lee] /ˈtræf ərd li/ (Show IPA), 1892–1944, British Air Force officer.
- lethargically — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
- light therapy — therapeutic exposure to full-spectrum artificial light that simulates sunlight, used to treat various conditions, as seasonal affective disorder.
- lightheadedly — In a lightheaded manner.
- like anything — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
- lingayen gulf — a gulf in the Philippines, on the NW coast of Luzon.
- lysergic acid — a crystalline solid, C 16 H 16 N 2 O 2 , obtained from ergot or synthesized: used in the synthesis of LSD.
- magisterially — In a magisterial manner; authoritatively.
- magnificently — making a splendid appearance or show; of exceptional beauty, size, etc.: a magnificent cathedral; magnificent scenery.
- maiden voyage — the first voyage of a ship after its acceptance by the owners from the builders.
- manageability — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
- martyrologies — Plural form of martyrology.
- meaninglessly — In a meaningless manner; nonsensically.
- molly maguire — Irish History. a member of a secret terrorist society organized in Ireland in 1843 to prevent evictions by the government: so called because the members disguised themselves as women.
- monogenically — In a monogenic manner.
- monogynoecial — (of a fruit) developing from a single pistil.
- multicategory — (mathematics) A generalization of the concept of category that allows morphisms of multiple arity.
- mutagenically — in a mutagenic manner
- mythographies — Plural form of mythography.
- nailing jelly — like nailing jelly to a tree
- navy register — (in the US) an annual publication giving genealogical information about the commissioned and warrant officers in the US Navy.
- nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
- negotiability — capable of being negotiated: a negotiable salary demand.
- objurgatively — In an objurgative or reproving manner.
- olympic games — international sports event
- originatively — in an originative manner
- overanalyzing — Present participle of overanalyze.
- overbearingly — domineering; dictatorial; haughtily or rudely arrogant.
- palaeobiology — the study of fossil plants and animals
- pathogenicity — the disease-producing capacity of a pathogen.
- pedagogically — of or relating to a pedagogue or pedagogy.
- pennyfarthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
- peptidoglycan — a polymer, consisting of polysaccharide and peptide chains, responsible for the structure of the cell wall of bacteria
- peregrinatory — tending to peregrinate; relating to or characteristic of a traveller
- pharyngealize — to pronounce with pharyngeal coarticulation.
- phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.