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16-letter words containing y, o, g

  • go one's own way — If you go your own way, you do what you want rather than what everyone else does or expects.
  • go to any length — the longest extent of anything as measured from end to end: the length of a river.
  • go/be easy on sb — If you tell someone to go easy on, or be easy on, a particular person, you are telling them not to punish or treat that person very severely.
  • gongora y argote — Luis de [lwees de] /lwis dɛ/ (Show IPA), 1561–1627, Spanish poet.
  • goolagong cawley — Evonne [ih-von,, ee-von] /ɪˈvɒn,, iˈvɒn/ (Show IPA), born 1951, Australian tennis player.
  • goosefoot family — formerly, the plant family Chenopodiaceae, characterized by often weedy herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually alternate leaves, small and inconspicuous flowers, and tiny, dry fruit, and including the beet, glasswort, goosefoot, Russian thistle, saltbush, and spinach; now part of the amaranth family, Amaranthaceae.
  • granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
  • grape phylloxera — See under phylloxera.
  • gravity platform — (in the oil industry) a drilling platform that rests directly on the sea bed and is kept in position by its own weight; it is usually made of reinforced concrete
  • gravity railroad — a railroad depending partly on the force of gravity for motive power.
  • greater-doxology — Gloria in Excelsis Deo.
  • gregory of nyssa — Saint, a.d. c330–395? Christian bishop and theologian in Asia Minor (brother of Saint Basil).
  • gregory of tours — Saint, a.d. 538?–594, Frankish bishop and historian.
  • gregory's powder — a formulation of rhubarb powder used as a laxative or purgative
  • greyhound racing — a sport in which a mechanically propelled dummy hare is pursued by greyhounds around a race track
  • grind your teeth — If you grind your teeth, you rub your upper and lower teeth together as though you are chewing something.
  • gynandromorphism — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
  • gynandromorphous — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
  • gyratory crusher — A gyratory crusher is a crusher in which a cone-shaped rod rotates in a cone-shaped bowl.
  • hardrock geology — (loosely) of or relating to igneous or metamorphic rocks, as in mining (hard-rock mining) and geology (hard-rock geology)
  • hieroglyphically — In hieroglyphics.
  • high memory area — (storage)   (HMA) The first 64 kilobytes (minus 16 byte) of the extended memory on an IBM PC. By a strange design glitch the Intel 80x86 processors can actually address 17*64 kbyte minus 16 byte of memory (from 0000:0000 to ffff:ffff) in real mode. In the Intel 8086 and Intel 8088 processors, unable to handle more than 1 megabyte of memory, addressing wrapped around, that is, address ffff:0010 was equivalent to 0000:0000. For compatibility reasons, later processors still wrapped around by default, but this feature could be switched off. Special programs called A20 handlers can control the addressing mode dynamically, thereby allowing programs to load themselves into the 1024--1088 kbyte region and run in real mode. From version 5.0 parts of MS-DOS can be loaded into HMA as well freeing up to 46 kbytes of conventional memory.
  • honeymoon bridge — any of several varieties of bridge for two players.
  • horary astrology — a method through which the answer to a question is sought by casting and interpreting a horoscope for the precise moment one learns of an event, problem, career opportunity, etc.
  • houphouet-boigny — Félix [French fey-leeks] /French feɪˈliks/ (Show IPA), 1905–1993, Ivory Coast political leader: president 1960–93.
  • hydrogen bromide — a colorless gas, HBr, having a pungent odor: the anhydride of hydrobromic acid.
  • hydrogen cyanide — a colorless poisonous gas, HCN, having a bitter almondlike odor: in aqueous solution it forms hydrocyanic acid.
  • hydrogen sulfide — a colorless, flammable, water-soluble, cumulatively poisonous gas, H 2 S, having the odor of rotten eggs: used chiefly in the manufacture of chemicals, in metallurgy, and as a reagent in laboratory analysis.
  • hydrologic cycle — the natural sequence through which water passes into the atmosphere as water vapor, precipitates to earth in liquid or solid form, and ultimately returns to the atmosphere through evaporation.
  • hydrometeorology — the study of atmospheric water, especially precipitation, as it affects agriculture, water supply, flood control, power generation, etc.
  • hygrothermograph — an instrument for recording temperature and relative humidity.
  • hyperandrogenism — (medicine) An abnormally high production of androgens.
  • hyperconjugation — (organic chemistry) A weak form of conjugation in which single bonds interact with a conjugated system.
  • hyperoxygenation — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
  • hypnagogic image — an image experienced by a person just before falling asleep, which often resembles a hallucination
  • hypnagogic state — the drowsy period between wakefulness and sleep, during which fantasies and hallucinations often occur.
  • immunohematology — the study of blood and blood-forming tissue in relation to the immune response.
  • immunoregulatory — Of or pertaining to immunoregulation.
  • in living memory — If you say that something is, for example, the best, worst, or first thing of its kind in living memory, you are emphasizing that it is the only thing of that kind that people can remember.
  • in utero surgery — surgery performed on a fetus while it is in the womb.
  • inauguration day — the day on which the president of the United States is inaugurated, being January 20 of every year following a year whose number is divisible by four. Prior to the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution (ratified February 6, 1933), it was March 4.
  • induced topology — a topology of a subset of a topological space, obtained by intersecting the subset with every open set in the topology of the space.
  • inflationary gap — the excess of total spending in an economy over the value, at current prices, of the output it can produce
  • johnny foreigner — a person from a country other than those which make up the United Kingdom
  • junior flyweight — a boxer weighing up to 108 pounds (48.6 kg), between minimumweight and flyweight.
  • keyword indexing — the process of constructing or compiling an index to a document or other item by using keywords that describe the item.
  • knowledgeability — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • legal dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the various branches of the legal profession, as civil law, criminal law, and corporate law. A comprehensive legal dictionary adds to its body of standard English entries many words and phrases that have made their way into modern legal practice from law French and Latin and are rarely found in a general English monolingual dictionary. Such a specialized dictionary is useful not only for law students and for attorneys themselves, but for members of the lay public who require legal services. Legal dictionaries published in print follow the normal practice of sorting entry terms alphabetically, while electronic dictionaries, such as the online Dictionary of Law on Dictionary.com, allow direct, immediate access to a search term.
  • leveraged buyout — the purchase of a company with borrowed money, using the company's assets as collateral, and often discharging the debt and realizing a profit by liquidating the company. Abbreviation: LBO.
  • lithographically — In the manner of lithography.
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