16-letter words containing y, g
- chimney-climbing — the sport of climbing a vertical fissure large enough for a person's body to enter
- cholecystography — radiography of the gall bladder after administration of a contrast medium
- chymotrypsinogen — the inactive precursor of chymotrypsin
- circumnavigatory — Pertaining to circumnavigation.
- cladogenetically — By means of cladogenesis.
- clean technology — techniques used in manufacturing processes that minimize the damage caused to the environment
- climatologically — In climatological terms.
- coleridge-taylor — Samuel. 1875–1912, British composer, best known for his trilogy of oratorios Song of Hiawatha (1898–1900)
- community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
- consanguineously — In a consanguineous fashion; by blood relationship.
- contingency fund — a sum of money allocated for use in an emergency or to cover unforeseen expenses
- contingency plan — a plan to be carried out if a more likely or desired outcome does not happen
- copyright symbol — (character, legal) "©" The internationally recognised symbol required to introduce a copyright notice, a letter C with a circle around it. This can be encoded in ISO 8859-1 as character code decimal 169, hexadecimal A9, in HTML as ©, © or ©. A "c" in parentheses: "(c)" is sometimes used in documents stored in a coded character set such as ASCII that does not include the C in a circle, but this has no legal meaning.
- cosmetic surgery — Cosmetic surgery is surgery done to make a person look more attractive.
- cottage industry — A cottage industry is a small business that is run from someone's home, especially one that involves a craft such as knitting or pottery.
- counter-strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
- crossopterygians — Plural form of crossopterygian.
- cryptozoological — (cryptozoology) Of or pertaining to cryptozoology.
- cryptozoologists — Plural form of cryptozoologist.
- crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
- crystallographic — of, relating to, or dealing with crystals or crystallography.
- currency trading — the business of trading in different currencies in order to profit from exchange rate differentials
- cyanogen bromide — a colorless, slightly water-soluble, poisonous, volatile, crystalline solid, BrCN, used chiefly as a fumigant and a pesticide.
- cygnus tcl tools — (tool) A rebundling of Tcl and Tk into the Cygnus GNU build framework with "configure" by david d 'zoo' zuhn <[email protected]>.
- cytotechnologist — a technician who specializes in identifying cells and cellular abnormalities.
- d-glyceraldehyde — an isomer of glyceraldehyde in which the OH group is on the right side of the asymmetric carbon atom.
- dafydd ap gwilym — ?1320–?1380, Welsh poet
- day of reckoning — If someone talks about the day of reckoning, they mean a day or time in the future when people will be forced to deal with an unpleasant situation which they have avoided until now.
- daylight robbery — If someone charges you a great deal of money for something and you think this is unfair or unreasonable, you can refer to this as daylight robbery.
- debating society — a club, e.g. at a school or university, which regularly holds debates
- deflationary gap — a situation in which total spending in an economy is insufficient to buy all the output that can be produced with full employment
- delaying tactics — techniques used to delay sth
- dendrochronology — the study of the annual rings of trees, used esp to date past events
- dental hygienist — a dentist's assistant skilled in dental hygiene
- deoxyhaemoglobin — (biochemistry) The form of haemoglobin that has released its oxygen.
- depth psychology — the study of unconscious motives and attitudes
- dermatologically — In a dermatological way.
- destroying angel — a white slender very poisonous basidiomycetous toadstool, Amanita virosa, having a pronounced volva, frilled, shaggy stalk, and sickly smell
- diagrammatically — in the form of a diagram; graphic; outlined.
- digestive system — the system by which ingested food is acted upon by physical and chemical means to provide the body with absorbable nutrients and to excrete waste products; in mammals the system includes the alimentary canal extending from the mouth to the anus, and the hormones and enzymes assisting in digestion.
- dimethylglyoxime — (organic compound) The oxime 2,3-butanedione dioxime that is used as a reagent in the analysis of nickel and palladium.
- discographically — In terms of discography.
- discriminatingly — With discrimination.
- doctor's surgery — A doctor's surgery is the same as a doctor's office.
- drugstore cowboy — a young man who loafs around drugstores or on street corners.
- dual carriageway — divided highway.
- dyer's greenweed — woadwaxen.
- dyer's-greenweed — woadwaxen.
- dynamic language — (language) (Dylan) A simple object-oriented Lisp dialect, most closely resembling CLOS and Scheme, developed by Advanced Technology Group East at Apple Computer. See also Marlais.
- dynamic markings — directions and symbols used to indicate degrees of loudness