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11-letter words containing a, g, l, y

  • methylating — Present participle of methylate.
  • misapplying — Present participle of misapply.
  • mistakingly — an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
  • moholy-nagy — László [las-loh;; Hungarian lahs-loh] /ˈlæs loʊ;; Hungarian ˈlɑs loʊ/ (Show IPA), or Ladislaus [lah-dis-lous] /ˈlɑ dɪsˌlaʊs/ (Show IPA), 1895–1946, Hungarian painter, designer, and photographer, in the U.S. after 1936.
  • molly-guard — /mol'ee-gard/ [University of Illinois] A shield to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands. Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) frobbed it twice in one day. Later generalised to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment.
  • multiagency — involving multiple agencies
  • mycological — Of or pertaining to mycology.
  • myelography — the production of myelograms.
  • narratology — The study of narrative structure.
  • neonatology — the study of the development and disorders of newborn children.
  • octagonally — In an octagonal manner.
  • odonatology — the study of insects, such as dragonflies, that belong to the zoological group Odonata
  • olfactology — the medical science which studies the sense of smell
  • onomatology — onomastics.
  • oologically — From the perspective of scientific study of eggs or of a collector of eggs.
  • opthamology — Misspelling of ophthalmology.
  • orange lily — a bulbous lily, Lilium bulbiferum, of the mountainous regions of southern Europe, having erect, crimson-spotted, orange flowers.
  • organically — in an organic manner.
  • originality — the quality or state of being original.
  • overeagerly — In an overeager manner.
  • paleography — ancient forms of writing, as in documents and inscriptions.
  • panegyrical — a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
  • pantheology — a branch of theology embracing all gods and all religions
  • pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
  • philography — the collecting of autographs, especially those of famous persons.
  • phraseology — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
  • pilgarlicky — bald or growing bald
  • piscatology — the art or science of fishing.
  • placatingly — in a placating manner
  • planetology — the branch of astronomy that deals with the physical features of the planets.
  • planigraphy — an x-ray photograph in which a given plane of the body is well defined and those above and below it purposely out of focus.
  • planography — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
  • play-acting — Play-acting is behaviour where someone pretends to have attitudes or feelings that they do not really have.
  • playwriting — the art or technique of writing theatrical plays; the work or profession of a playwright.
  • polling day — date of election voting
  • polyangular — multangular; multiangular.
  • polygonatum — a plant of the genus Polygonatum
  • polygrapher — a person who employs a code cipher
  • polygraphic — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
  • polylingual — pertaining to, expressed in, or using several languages; multilingual.
  • polymyalgia — a chronic inflammatory disease, common among older persons, characterized by recurrent episodes of muscle pain and stiffness, sometimes leading to cardiovascular complications or blindness.
  • polyphagous — Pathology. excessive desire to eat.
  • pony league — a baseball league similar to a Little League and having teams whose players are from 13 to 14 years of age.
  • poyang lake — a lake in E China, in N Jiangxi province, connected by canal with the Yangtze River: the second largest lake in China. Area (at its greatest): 2780 sq km (1073 sq miles)
  • prayer flag — a flag stamped with printed prayers, used by Himalayan Buddhists, who believe that its fluttering sends out the prayers inscribed on it.
  • preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
  • primatology — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
  • prodigality — the quality or fact of being prodigal; wasteful extravagance in spending.
  • protogalaxy — the large concentration of gas and dust from which a galaxy is formed.
  • psaligraphy — the art of cutting out silhouettes
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