10-letter words containing a, c, l, y
- flatulency — (chiefly, dated) flatulence.
- fly agaric — a very poisonous common woodland mushroom, Amanita muscaria, having a glossy red or orange cap with white spots, formerly a fly poison.
- flycatcher — any of numerous Old World birds of the family Muscicapidae, that feed on insects captured in the air.
- follically — Alternative spelling of follicly.
- force play — a situation in which a base runner is forced to advance to a base or to home plate as a result of the batter becoming a base runner or to make room for another base runner.
- fractality — the quality of being fractal or subdivided
- frantickly — Obsolete form of franticly.
- galactosyl — the glycosyl radical of galactose
- gallically — pertaining to the Gauls or Gaul.
- gay-lussac — Joseph Louis [joh-zuh f loo-ee,, -suh f;; French zhaw-zef lwee] /ˈdʒoʊ zəf ˈlu i,, -səf;; French ʒɔˈzɛf lwi/ (Show IPA), 1778–1850, French chemist and physicist.
- glaciology — the branch of geology that deals with the nature, distribution, and action of glaciers and with their effect on the earth's topography.
- glancingly — In a glancing manner.
- glycosuria — excretion of glucose in the urine, as in diabetes.
- gnomically — In a gnomic manner. (In a way apparently clear and simple, but eventually difficult to understand).
- gothically — In a gothic way.
- gracefully — characterized by elegance or beauty of form, manner, movement, or speech; elegant: a graceful dancer; a graceful reply.
- graciously — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
- gray scale — a scale of achromatic colors having several, usually ten, equal gradations ranging from white to black, used in television and photography.
- gray-scale — (spelling) US spelling of "grey-scale".
- grey-scale — (graphics) (US "gray-scale") 1. Composed of (discrete) shades of grey. If the pixels of a grey-scale image have N bits, they may take values from zero, representing black up to 2^N-1, representing white with intermediate values representing increasingly light shades of grey. If N=1 the image is not called grey-scale but could be called monochrome. 2. A range of acurately known shades of grey printed out for use in calibrating those shades on a display or printer.
- gyrfalcons — Plural form of gyrfalcon.
- hackle fly — an artificial fly made with hackles, usually without wings.
- haemolytic — of or relating to the disintegration of red blood cells
- halcyonian — calm; peaceful; tranquil: halcyon weather.
- half-crazy — somewhat crazy or insane
- halophytic — Growing well under salty conditions.
- haptically — By means of touch.
- hectically — characterized by intense agitation, excitement, confused and rapid movement, etc.: The week before the trip was hectic and exhausting.
- heliacally — In a heliacal manner.
- heroically — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- holy place — somewhere sacred
- hyaluronic — Of or pertaining to hyaluronic acid or its derivatives.
- hydraulics — the science that deals with the laws governing water or other liquids in motion and their applications in engineering; practical or applied hydrodynamics.
- hydrically — in a hydric manner; in a manner using water or moisture
- hydrocoral — any colonial marine animal of the hydrozoan order Stylasterina having a calcareous skeleton resembling that of the true corals.
- hygienical — conducive to good health; healthful; sanitary.
- hylozoical — characterized by the theory that all matter possesses life or that life is an essential property of matter
- hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
- hyperlocal — relating to or focused on a very small geographical community, as a neighborhood: hyperlocal news websites; hyperlocal advertising.
- hypothecal — (microbiology, planktology) Of or pertaining to the hypotheca, the lower half of the shell of certain types of plankton.
- hysterical — of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria.
- hystorical — Nonstandard spelling of historical.
- iconically — of, relating to, or characteristic of an icon.
- iconolatry — the worship or adoration of icons.
- illiteracy — a lack of ability to read and write.
- illocality — Want of locality or place.
- immaculacy — free from spot or stain; spotlessly clean: immaculate linen.
- impeccably — faultless; flawless; irreproachable: impeccable manners.
- implacably — not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable: an implacable enemy.
- inactively — In an inactive manner.