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13-letter words containing y, a, g, i

  • flying tackle — a tackle made by hurling one's body through the air at the player carrying the ball.
  • fragmentarily — consisting of or reduced to fragments; broken; disconnected; incomplete: fragmentary evidence; fragmentary remains.
  • frighten away — cause sb/sth to run away
  • frustratingly — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
  • galactic year — the duration of a complete rotation of the Milky Way, approximately 200 million years.
  • galois theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with the application of the theory of finite groups to the solution of algebraic equations.
  • games library — a type of library for video games where games (usually downloaded via the internet) can be paid for per use rather than be bought at full price
  • gender binary — a classification system consisting of two genders, male and female.
  • genethlialogy — the science of calculating positions of the heavenly bodies on nativities.
  • genitourinary — of or relating to the genital and urinary organs; urogenital.
  • genotypically — With reference to a genotype.
  • geochemically — In a geochemical manner.
  • geometrically — of or relating to geometry or to the principles of geometry.
  • geophysically — In a geophysical manner; in terms of geophysics.
  • geostationary — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
  • germinability — the degree of ability of a seed to germinate or sprout.
  • gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
  • get away with — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
  • ginger family — the plant family Zingiberaceae, characterized by tropical, often aromatic herbaceous plants having rhizomes, long sheathing leaves, and clusters of tubular flowers, and including cardamon, ginger, and turmeric.
  • glyceric acid — a colorless, syrupy liquid, C 3 H 6 O 4 , obtained by oxidizing glycerol.
  • glycolic acid — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 2 H 4 O 3 , that is a major substrate for photorespiration in plants: used chiefly for textile printing and dyeing and in pesticides.
  • glyconic acid — gluconic acid.
  • glycosylation — (chemistry, biochemistry) The reaction of a saccharide with a hydroxy or amino functional group to form a glycoside; especially the reaction with a protein or lipid to form a glycoprotein or glycolipid.
  • gnu c library — (library)   (glibc) The run-time library for the GNU C compiler, gcc, and others. glibc is the source code for libc.a. It is maintained separately from the compilers and is a superset of ANSI C and POSIX.1 and a large subset of POSIX.2. Mailing list: <[email protected]> (bugs).
  • go fly a kite — to move through the air using wings.
  • governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
  • grammatically — of or relating to grammar: grammatical analysis.
  • grape variety — type of grape
  • graphemically — In terms of or by means of graphemes.
  • gravity clock — a clock driven by its own weight as it descends a rack, cord, incline, etc.
  • gravity fault — a fault along an inclined plane in which the upper side or hanging wall appears to have moved downward with respect to the lower side or footwall (opposed to reverse fault).
  • gravity hinge — a hinge closing automatically by means of gravity.
  • gravity meter — gravimeter (def 2).
  • gravity scale — a scale giving the relative density of fluids
  • gray eminence — a person who wields unofficial power, especially through another person and often surreptitiously or privately.
  • gray squirrel — a common, grayish squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis, of eastern North America.
  • great grimsby — seaport in Humberside, NE England, at the mouth of the Humber estuary: county district pop. 91,000
  • great society — the goal of the Democratic Party under the leadership of President Lyndon B. Johnson, chiefly to enact domestic programs to improve education, provide medical care for the aged, and eliminate poverty.
  • group annuity — a plan in which the members of a group, usually employees of the same company, receive annuities upon retirement.
  • grylloblattid — a primitive insect of the order Grylloblattidea, having a soft, unpigmented wingless body with long antennae and no eyes, living under stones in moderately high mountains of the western U.S., Japan, and the U.S.S.R.
  • guanylic acid — GMP.
  • gymnastically — In a gymnastic manner.
  • gynaecologist — (UK, Canada, dated in US) A physician who specialises in diseases of the female reproductive system.
  • gynaecomastia — abnormal overdevelopment of the breasts in a man
  • gynaecophobia — (psychology) An irrational fear of women.
  • gynecocracies — Plural form of gynecocracy.
  • gynecological — the branch of medical science that deals with the health maintenance and diseases of women, especially of the reproductive organs. Abbreviation: GYN, gyn.
  • gyromagnetism — the condition or state of being gyromagnetic
  • hasty pudding — New England. cornmeal mush.
  • heavy lifting — hard work: A team of researchers did the heavy lifting for the author.
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