12-letter words containing yg
- amygdaliform — almond-shaped.
- amygdaloidal — (of a volcanic rock) containing amygdales
- amygdalotomy — (surgery) Surgical removal of the amygdala.
- bathygraphic — of or relating to the depths of the ocean
- brachygraphy — shorthand; stenography
- candygrammar — (language) A programming-language grammar that is mostly syntactic sugar; a play on "candygram". COBOL, Apple Computer's Hypertalk language, and many 4GLs share this property. The intent is to be as English-like as possible and thus easier for unskilled people to program. However, syntax isn't what makes programming hard; it's the mental effort and organisation required to specify an algorithm precisely. Thus "candygrammar" languages are just as difficult to program in, and far more painful for the experienced hacker.
- coccygectomy — (surgery) Surgical removal of the coccyx.
- cryptozygous — having the skull broad and the face narrow.
- deoxygenated — to remove oxygen from (a substance, as blood or water).
- deoxygenized — Simple past tense and past participle of deoxygenize.
- gallygaskins — galligaskins.
- gobbledygook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
- heavy oxygen — either of the two stable isotopes of oxygen having mass numbers of 17 and 18.
- heterozygote — a hybrid containing genes for two unlike forms of a characteristic, and therefore not breeding true to type.
- heterozygous — having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic.
- homo-zygotic — having identical pairs of genes for any given pair of hereditary characteristics.
- homozygosity — having identical pairs of genes for any given pair of hereditary characteristics.
- hygienically — conducive to good health; healthful; sanitary.
- hygrochastic — of or relating to the opening of a fruit or flower caused by water or moisture
- hygrographic — of or relating to a hygrograph
- hygrophilous — a plant that thrives in wet or very moist ground.
- hygrothermal — (physics) Of or pertaining to both humidity and temperature.
- hypophrygian — (in medieval church music) of or relating to the fourth of the eight scales
- lallygagging — Present participle of lallygag.
- lipoxygenase — (enzyme) Any of a class of enzymes that catalyse the oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids.
- lollygagging — lallygag.
- moneygrubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
- oxygen cycle — the process by which oxygen released into the atmosphere by photosynthetic organisms is taken up by aerobic organisms while the carbon dioxide released as a by-product of repiration is taken up for photosynthesis.
- oxygen lance — a tube for conveying oxygen, used in various thermal cutting or steelmaking operations.
- phrygian cap — a soft, conical cap represented in ancient Greek art as part of Phrygian dress and associated, since the late 18th and early 19th centuries, with the liberty cap.
- polygamistic — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
- polyglottous — characterized by being multilingual
- polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- pompholygous — characterized by pompholyx
- postsphygmic — of or relating to the pulse.
- pygmy glider — a gliding marsupial, Acrobates pygmaeus, of Australia, growing to about the size of a mouse and having a featherlike tail.
- pygmy possum — any of various small Australasian marsupials, esp the burramys
- skew polygon — the figure formed by joining four or more points, not all in one plane, by the same number of lines
- snollygoster — a clever, unscrupulous person.
- sphygmograph — an instrument for recording the rapidity, strength, and uniformity of the arterial pulse.
- sphygmometer — a device which measures the rate of the pulse
- sphygmophone — a device by which a pulse may be heard
- sphygmoscope — a device for studying or examining the pulse
- steatopygous — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
- unoxygenated — not enriched with oxygen
- zygapophysis — one of the four processes of a vertebra, occurring in pairs that interlock each vertebra with the vertebrae above and below.
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