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14-letter words containing y, a, g, i, s

  • haight-ashbury — a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.
  • 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
  • heating system — a system that provides heat to a building or number of buildings
  • hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
  • histologically — In an histological manner.
  • 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.
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • 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.
  • imaginary axis — the vertical axis in an Argand diagram.
  • in a pig's eye — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • insanely great — (Macintosh community, from Steve Jobs; also BSD Unix people via Bill Joy) Something so incredibly elegant that it is imaginable only to someone possessing the most puissant of hacker-natures.
  • insignificancy — insignificance.
  • intransigently — In an intransigent manner.
  • isocyano group — the univalent group −NC.
  • jingoistically — (manner) In a jingoistic manner.
  • king's highway — a highway built by the national government.
  • laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
  • laryngoscopies — Plural form of laryngoscopy.
  • legalistically — strict adherence, or the principle of strict adherence, to law or prescription, especially to the letter rather than the spirit.
  • linguistically — of or belonging to language: linguistic change.
  • logical syntax — syntactics.
  • lysogenization — the process of a bacterium becoming lysogenic
  • macrosociology — the sociological study of large-scale social systems and long-term patterns and processes.
  • megascopically — macroscopically
  • metal spraying — a process in which a layer of one metal is sprayed onto another in the molten state
  • misclassifying — Present participle of misclassify.
  • molly maguires — a secret society organized in Ireland in 1843 to terrorize landlords' agents in order to prevent evictions
  • museologically — In a museological manner.
  • nyctaginaceous — belonging to the Nyctaginaceae, the four-o'clock family of plants.
  • osteogenically — By osteogenesis.
  • osteologically — Concerning only the osteological aspects.
  • overnight stay — in hospital or hotel
  • oyster farming — the activity of cultivating oysters for food or pearls
  • paying-in slip — a sheet in a paying-in book for writing down and keeping a record of a single deposit into an account
  • praying mantis — mantis.
  • predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
  • prognostically — of or relating to prognosis.
  • progressionary — relating to progression
  • pseudepigraphy — the false ascription of a piece of writing to an author.
  • psychogalvanic — pertaining to or involving electric changes in the body resulting from reactions to mental or emotional stimuli.
  • psychographics — the use of demographics to determine the attitudes and tastes of a particular segment of a population, as in marketing studies.
  • pugilistically — a person who fights with the fists; a boxer, usually a professional.
  • pyramidologist — a person who believes in pyramidology
  • pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
  • racing cyclist — a cyclist who takes part in bicycle races
  • registrability — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
  • 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.
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