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14-letter words containing y, n

  • funnily enough — You use funnily enough to indicate that, although something is surprising, it is true or really happened.
  • funny business — improper or unethical conduct, as deception or trickery: He won't stand for any funny business here.
  • galley kitchen — a household kitchen designed with kitchen units on both sides and no kitchen table
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
  • ganglionectomy — the excision of a ganglion.
  • garden variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
  • garden-variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
  • gascoyne-cecil — Robert Arthur Talbot [tawl-buh t] /ˈtɔl bət/ (Show IPA), 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, Salisbury (def 1).
  • gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
  • gene frequency — the frequency of occurrence of a particular allele in a population
  • genealogically — Using genealogical methods.
  • generationally — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
  • genethliacally — from a genethliac point of view
  • gentian family — the plant family Gentianaceae, typified by herbaceous plants having simple opposite leaves, usually blue flowers with five united petals, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the closed gentian, fringed gentian, centaury, exacum, and marsh pink.
  • geocentrically — In a geocentric manner.
  • geochronometry — the determination of the absolute age of earth materials, as by radiometric dating.
  • geognostically — with reference to a knowledge of the structure of the earth
  • geosynchronous — 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.
  • gerrymandering — U.S. Politics. the dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength of the other party into as few districts as possible.
  • get a guernsey — to be selected or gain recognition for something
  • get funny with — to be impudent to
  • get in the way — be an obstacle
  • ginseng family — the plant family Araliaceae, characterized by often prickly herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs having alternate leaves and dense clusters of small, whitish or greenish flowers, and including the devil's-club, ginseng, ivy, schefflera, and wild sarsaparilla.
  • glycemic index — a system that ranks foods by the speeds at which their carbohydrates are converted into glucose in the body; a measure of the effects of foods on blood-sugar levels.
  • glycogenolysis — (biochemistry) The production of glucose-1-phosphate by splitting a glucose monomer from glycogen using inorganic phosphate.
  • glycogenolytic — Of, pertaining to, or capable of glycogenolysis, the catabolism of glycogen.
  • go easy on sth — If you tell someone to go easy on something, you are telling them to use only a small amount of it.
  • goitrogenicity — the potential to cause goitre
  • golden goodbye — A golden goodbye is the same as a golden handshake.
  • governing body — board, regulatory authority
  • governmentally — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • graduation day — the day on which the ceremony is held at which university or college degrees and diplomas are conferred
  • granary weevil — a reddish-brown weevil, Sitophilus granarius, that infests stored grain.
  • grand ole opry — a successful radio show from Nashville, Tenn., first broadcast on Nov. 28, 1925, noted for its playing of and continuing importance to country music.
  • granny dumping — the abandonment of an elderly person, especially a relative, at a hospital, bus station, etc.
  • granny glasses — round spectacles
  • grape hyacinth — any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
  • great pyrenees — one of a breed of large dogs having a heavy, white coat, raised originally in the Pyrenees for herding sheep and as a watchdog.
  • green currency — a currency whose value is adjusted in accordance with fluctuations between the currencies of the EU nations
  • greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
  • groote eylandt — an island in the Gulf of Carpentaria off the coast of NE Australia. 950 sq. mi. (2461 sq. km).
  • group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
  • guantanamo bay — a bay on the SE coast of Cuba.
  • gulf of anadyr — an inlet of the Bering Sea, off the coast of NE Russia
  • gynaecological — Alternative spelling of gynecological.
  • gynandromorphs — Plural form of gynandromorph.
  • gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
  • gynomonoecious — having both female and hermaphrodite flowers on the same plant.
  • halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
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