15-letter words containing y, o, g, h
- holiday village — a park with villas where holidaymakers stay and which has a central area with a shop, entertainment, etc
- holographically — In a holographic way.
- honey tangerine — a citrus fruit with a deep-orange pulp, formed by crossing a tangerine and a sweet orange hybrid; Murcott
- horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
- hughes syndrome — a condition of the autoimmune system caused by antibodies reacting against phospholipids, leading to thrombosis
- human geography — the study of the interaction between human beings and their environment in particular places and across spatial areas.
- humphrey bogart — Humphrey (DeForest) ("Bogie"or"Bogey") 1899–57, U.S. motion-picture actor.
- hydrobiological — of or relating to hydrobiology
- 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.
- hydrogen iodide — a colorless gas, HI, having a suffocating odor: the anhydride of hydriodic acid.
- hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
- hyetometrograph — an instrument used to record rainfall
- hygroscopically — In a hygroscopic way.
- hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots
- hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
- hyperpolarizing — Present participle of hyperpolarize.
- hypomagnesaemia — the condition of having too little magnesium in the blood, particularly in cattle, in which it is also known as lactation tetany
- hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
- ideographically — an ideogram.
- immunohistology — the microscopic study of tissues with the aid of antibodies that bind to tissue components and reveal their presence.
- immunopathology — the study of diseases having an immunologic or allergic basis.
- inhomogeneously — lack of homogeneity.
- jingling johnny — crescent (def 6).
- keyhole surgery — operation done by laparoscopy
- kinesthesiology — The medical and therapeutic study of the movement of muscles and joints.
- laryngotracheal — of, relating to, or involving the larynx and trachea.
- logarithmically — In a logarithmic manner.
- lymphogranuloma — any of certain diseases characterized by granulomatous lesions of lymph nodes.
- magnetorheology — the study of the relationships between the particle and fluid properties of magnetic suspensions.
- mahogany family — the plant family Meliaceae, characterized by tropical and subtropical trees and shrubs having alternate, pinnate leaves, usually branched clusters of flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or leathery capsule, and including the chinaberry, cedars of the genus Cedrela, and mahoganies of the genera Swietenia and Khaya.
- malpighian body — Also called kidney corpuscle, Malpighian body. the structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule.
- mass psychology — the study of the behavior of large groups of people.
- megagametophyte — the female gametophyte in seed plants.
- methylene group — the bivalent organic group >CH 2 , derived from methane.
- microangiopathy — any disease of the small blood vessels.
- micromorphology — the study of the form and structure of organisms at a microscopic level
- microtechnology — technology that uses microelectronics
- microtopography — microrelief.
- mind how you go — Some people say 'Mind how you go' when they are saying goodbye to someone who is leaving.
- montgomeryshire — a historic county in Powys, in central Wales.
- monthly meeting — (often initial capital letters) a district unit of local congregations of the Society of Friends.
- morphologically — the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms.
- morphophonology — morphophonemics (def 1).
- mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
- mythologization — The act or process of mythologizing.
- nasopharyngitis — (medicine) An inflammation of the nasal passages, and of the upper pharynx.
- neurophysiology — the branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.
- neuropsychology — The study of the relationship between behavior, emotion, and cognition on the one hand, and brain function on the other.
- new archaeology — a reorientation of archaeology, dating from the 1960s, that emphasizes an explicitly scientific, problem-oriented, deductive approach to research.
- nizhny novgorod — city in central European Russia, at the Volga & Oka rivers: pop. 1,438,000