12-letter words containing d, o, y, l
- field hockey — a game played on a rectangular field having a netted goal at each end, in which two teams of 11 players each compete in driving a small leather-covered ball into the other's goal, each player being equipped with a stick having a curved end or blade that is flat on one side and rounded on the other.
- field theory — a detailed mathematical description of the distribution and movement of matter under the influence of one or more fields.
- floppy drive — disk drive
- florida keys — chain of small islands extending southwest from the S tip of Fla.
- food allergy — an allergy to a specific type of food
- food stylist — a person whose job is to arrange food in an attractive way for professional photographs or broadcasts.
- forbiddingly — In a forbidding manner.
- forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
- forehandedly — Prudently, with thrift and foresight.
- formaldehyde — a colorless, toxic, potentially carcinogenic, water-soluble gas, CH 2 O, having a suffocating odor, usually derived from methyl alcohol by oxidation: used chiefly in aqueous solution, as a disinfectant and preservative, and in the manufacture of various resins and plastics.
- fowl typhoid — a septicemic disease of fowl, especially chickens, caused by the bacterium Salmonella gallinarum and marked by fever, loss of appetite, thirst, anemic pallor of the skin of the head, and prostration.
- fully booked — having no vacancies or spaces
- geodetically — pertaining to geodesy.
- geohydrology — hydrogeology.
- glycerolipid — (organic chemistry) Any lipid based on glycerol.
- glycopeptide — any of a group of complex proteins, as mucin, containing a carbohydrate combined with a simple protein.
- glycosidases — Plural form of glycosidase.
- glycosylated — Simple past tense and past participle of glycosylate.
- glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
- gobbledygook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
- god's plenty — an abundant or overabundant quantity.
- gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
- golden syrup — treacle (def 2b).
- golden years — the years that follow retirement from work
- goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
- good ol' boy — a male who embodies the unsophisticated good fellowship and sometimes boisterous sociability regarded as typical of white males of small towns and rural areas of the South.
- good old boy — a male who embodies the unsophisticated good fellowship and sometimes boisterous sociability regarded as typical of white males of small towns and rural areas of the South.
- gourd family — the plant family Cucurbitaceae, characterized by tendril-bearing vines, either trailing or climbing and having alternate, palmately lobed leaves, often large yellow or greenish flowers, and many-seeded, fleshy fruit with a hard rind, and including the cucumber, gourd, melon, pumpkin, and squash.
- groundlessly — In a groundless manner; without justification.
- halcyon days — period regarded with nostalgia
- half holiday — a holiday limited to half a working day or half an academic day.
- half-holiday — a holiday limited to half a working day or half an academic day.
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- hebdomadally — taking place, coming together, or published once every seven days; weekly: hebdomadal meetings; hebdomadal groups; hebdomadal journals.
- hemodialyses — Plural form of hemodialysis.
- hemodialysis — dialysis of the blood, especially with an artificial kidney, for the removal of waste products.
- hemodialyzer — artificial kidney.
- heterodactyl — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
- heteroploidy — (genetics) The state of being heteroploid.
- heterostyled — (of a plant) having styles of different forms or lengths in the flowers.
- hobbledehoys — Plural form of hobbledehoy.
- holiday camp — In Britain, a holiday camp is a place which provides holiday accommodation and entertainment for large numbers of people.
- holiday home — a home that people own in order to holiday in and that is in a different location to the home they usually live in
- holidaymaker — vacationer.
- hollywoodian — a person who works for the motion-picture industry located in Hollywood, Calif.
- hollywoodish — of, relating to, or resembling Hollywood, Hollywoodians, or the products of Hollywood and the motion-picture industry.
- horrendously — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- humboldt bay — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in NW California.
- hydrobiology — the study of aquatic organisms.
- hydrocephaly — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.