12-letter words containing g, a, y, i, s
- grayson kirk — Grayson (Louis) 1903–1997, U.S. educator: president of Columbia University 1953–68.
- gregariously — fond of the company of others; sociable.
- gynecomastia — abnormal enlargement of the breast in a male.
- heavyweights — Plural form of heavyweight.
- hesitatingly — In a hesitating manner.
- hydrargyrism — mercurialism.
- hygrochastic — of or relating to the opening of a fruit or flower caused by water or moisture
- hyperalgesia — an exaggerated sense of pain (opposed to hypalgesia).
- hyperalgesic — Of or pertaining to hyperalgesia.
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
- hypogonadism — diminished hormonal or reproductive functioning in the testes or the ovaries.
- hypsographic — a branch of geography that deals with the measurement and mapping of the topography of the earth above sea level.
- increasingly — growing larger or greater; enlarging; augmenting.
- jersey giant — one of a breed of large domestic chickens raised primarily for their meat, originally black but now with a white variety, developed in New Jersey by interbreeding Langshans and large Asiatic fowl.
- kikuyu grass — a type of fast-growing tropical grass, Pennisetum clandestinum, native to E Africa
- lawyer's wig — the shaggy ink-cap
- lay siege to — attack
- lipoxygenase — (enzyme) Any of a class of enzymes that catalyse the oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids.
- logistically — of or relating to logistics.
- lymphangitis — inflammation of the lymphatic vessels.
- ming dynasty — the imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644
- misanalyzing — Present participle of misanalyze.
- misleadingly — In a misleading manner.
- mystagogical — someone who instructs others before initiation into religious mysteries or before participation in the sacraments.
- naughty bits — genitals
- nauseatingly — causing sickness of the stomach; nauseous.
- oleaginously — In an oleaginous manner.
- onomasiology — the study of the means of expressing a given concept.
- palynologist — the study of live and fossil spores, pollen grains, and similar plant structures.
- paralysingly — in a manner that paralyses
- parasitology — the branch of biology dealing with parasites and the effects of parasitism.
- paying guest — lodger
- phagocytosis — Physiology. the ingestion of a smaller cell or cell fragment, a microorganism, or foreign particles by means of the local infolding of a cell's membrane and the protrusion of its cytoplasm around the fold until the material has been surrounded and engulfed by closure of the membrane and formation of a vacuole: characteristic of amebas and some types of white blood cells.
- physiography — the science of physical geography.
- physogastric — pertaining to the swollen, membranous abdomen of certain insects, especially termite and ant queens.
- polygamistic — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
- polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
- pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- reassuringly — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
- salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
- sandy blight — trachoma.
- saprobiology — the branch of ecology that studies decaying organic matter or environments, especially saprophytes that derive nourishment in this way.
- saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
- scatteringly — in a scattering manner
- scintigraphy — the process of producing a scintigram.
- scramblingly — in a scrambling manner
- scratchingly — in a scratching manner, with a scratching action
- sedge family — the plant family Cyperaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, often found in wet areas, having solid stems, narrow, grasslike leaves with closed sheaths, spikes of very small flowers set in a scalelike bract, and a dry, flattened, convex fruit, and including the bulrush, chufa, cotton grass, papyrus, and umbrella plant.
- see daylight — the light of day: At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.