15-letter words containing y, a, t, g
- gender equality — the state of having the same rights, status, and opportunities as others, regardless of one's gender.
- genetic fallacy — the fallacy of confusing questions of validity and logical order with questions of origin and temporal order.
- geomagnetically — In a geomagnetic way; through geomagnetism.
- geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
- geotectonically — from a geotectonic point of view
- gestalt therapy — holistic psychotherapy
- get any good of — to handle to good effect
- gladbach-rheydt — a former city in W Germany; now part of Mönchengladbach.
- go by the board — If something goes by the board, it is rejected or ignored, or is no longer possible.
- governmentality — (sociology) The organized practices (mentalities, rationalities, and techniques) through which subjects are governed and influenced.
- grand old party — G.O.P.
- grand serjeanty — serjeanty in which the tenant rendered services of a personal, honorary nature to the king, as carrying his sword or banner.
- grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- grandstand play — an ostentatious play, as in a sport, overemphasized deliberately to elicit applause from spectators.
- graveyard shift — a work shift usually beginning at about midnight and continuing for about eight hours through the early morning hours.
- graveyard watch — graveyard shift.
- gravimetrically — (chemistry) Using a gravimetric method.
- gravitationally — As a result of the force of gravity.
- gravity anomaly — a deviation from the normal value of gravity at the earth's surface, caused by density differences at depth, for example those caused by a buried mineral body
- great south bay — an Atlantic Ocean inlet, between the S shore of Long Island and Fire Island and other barrier islands. 45 miles (72 km) long.
- great synagogue — (according to Jewish tradition) a council of 120 members, established by Ezra, that directed the Jews chiefly in religious matters, c450–c200 b.c., and made significant contributions to the Jewish liturgy and Bible.
- great white way — the theater district along Broadway, near Times Square in New York City.
- great-heartedly — in a great-hearted manner
- greenback party — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
- guidance system — The guidance system of a missile or rocket is the device which controls its course.
- gyrostabilizers — Plural form of gyrostabilizer.
- hair hygrometer — a hygrometer actuated by the changes in length of a strand of human hair brought about by changes in the relative humidity.
- heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
- heavy breathing — stertorous breathing or breathing done with difficulty
- high and mighty — self-important, arrogant
- high-and-mighty — haughty; arrogant.
- holiday cottage — a cottage used for accommodation for a family, couple, etc, on holiday
- honey tangerine — a citrus fruit with a deep-orange pulp, formed by crossing a tangerine and a sweet orange hybrid; Murcott
- humphrey bogart — Humphrey (DeForest) ("Bogie"or"Bogey") 1899–57, U.S. motion-picture actor.
- hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
- hyetometrograph — an instrument used to record rainfall
- hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
- hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
- ignatius loyola — Saint Ignatius of (Iñigo López de Loyola) 1491–1556, Spanish soldier and ecclesiastic: founder of the Society of Jesus.
- immunopathology — the study of diseases having an immunologic or allergic basis.
- insignificantly — Of such extremely small quantity or degree that it is not worth measuring.
- interchangeably — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
- internal energy — a function of thermodynamic variables, as temperature, that represents the internal state of a system that is due to the energies of the molecular constituents of the system. The change in internal energy during a process is equal to the net heat entering the system minus the net work done by the system. Symbol: U.
- interrogatingly — So as to interrogate; with urgent or bullying questioning.
- interrogatively — In an interrogative manner; by means of a question.
- intransigeantly — intransigently
- irrefragability — How irrefragable something is.
- knight errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
- knight-errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.