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.