10-letter words containing g, a, y, l
- grey alder — a variety of alder (Alnus incana) with grey bark, common in temperate areas of the northern hemisphere
- grey whale — a large N Pacific whalebone whale, Eschrichtius glaucus, that is grey or black with white spots and patches: family Eschrichtidae
- 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.
- gutturally — In a harsh or throaty manner.
- gymnoplast — a mass of protoplasm without an enclosing wall.
- gyneolatry — The adoration or worship of women.
- gyniolatry — an extreme form of love and attachment to women
- gypsophila — any plant belonging to the genus Gypsophila, of the pink family, native to Mediterranean regions, having small, panicled, pink or white flowers, as baby's breath.
- gyrational — Of, pertaining to, or caused by gyration.
- gyrfalcons — Plural form of gyrfalcon.
- hagiolatry — the worship of saints.
- hangingfly — a small, long-legged scorpionfly of the family Bittacidae, resembling the crane fly but having four wings rather than two and hanging from leaves or twigs by the front or middle legs while using the hind legs to seize prey, mostly small flies.
- haulageway — a passageway by which coal, ore, etc., is hauled to the surface from an underground mine.
- hauntingly — remaining in the consciousness; not quickly forgotten: haunting music; haunting memories.
- hematology — the study of the nature, function, and diseases of the blood and of blood-forming organs.
- hepatology — (medicine) The study or treatment of the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas.
- holidaying — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
- holography — the process or technique of making holograms.
- holy grail — grail (def 1).
- holy grass — any of several fragrant grasses of the genus Hierochloë, especially H. odorata, the vanilla grass.
- hyalograph — an instrument used in hyalography.
- hygienical — conducive to good health; healthful; sanitary.
- hypalgesia — decreased sensitivity to pain (opposed to hyperalgesia).
- hyperalgia — an exaggerated sense of pain (opposed to hypalgesia).
- ignorantly — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
- illegality — illegal condition or quality; unlawfulness.
- imaginably — capable of being imagined or conceived.
- inarguably — not arguable: Her conclusion is so obvious as to be inarguable.
- inelegancy — inelegance.
- intangibly — not tangible; incapable of being perceived by the sense of touch, as incorporeal or immaterial things; impalpable.
- integrally — of, relating to, or belonging as a part of the whole; constituent or component: integral parts.
- ivy league — a group of colleges and universities in the northeastern U.S., consisting of Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brown, having a reputation for high scholastic achievement and social prestige.
- jaywalking — to cross a street at a place other than a regular crossing or in a heedless manner, as diagonally or against a traffic light.
- jellygraph — a device that uses a plate of jelly to make copies of a sheet of writing, etc
- joey glass — a small tumbler of the 17th century; dram glass.
- karyologic — of or relating to karyology
- kymatology — The study of wave motion.
- ladyfinger — a small, finger-shaped sponge cake.
- laryngeals — Plural form of laryngeal.
- laryngitic — Pertaining to or suffering from laryngitis.
- laryngitis — inflammation of the larynx, often with accompanying sore throat, hoarseness or loss of voice, and dry cough.
- laugh away — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
- laughingly — With amused ridicule or ludicrous inappropriateness.
- lay an egg — the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
- lay figure — a jointed model of the human body, usually of wood, from which artists work in the absence of a living model.
- lazy tongs — extensible tongs for grasping objects at a distance, consisting of a series of pairs of crossing pieces, each pair pivoted together in the middle and connected with the next pair at the extremities.
- legitimacy — the state or quality of being legitimate.
- lengthways — Lengthwise.
- levogyrate — levorotatory
- lexigraphy — (uncountable) The representation of words in writing.