12-letter words containing g, a, y, l
- gigantically — In a gigantic manner.
- glacé cherry — a crystallized or candied cherry, used in cookery and cocktail-making
- glacier lily — a dogtooth violet, Erythronium grandiflorum, of the lily family, native to western North America, having bright yellow flowers.
- glassy alloy — a metal alloy having a noncrystalline, glasslike structure.
- glassyheaded — smooth; bald
- glossarially — In the manner of a glossary.
- glossography — a glossator.
- glossy snake — a nocturnal burrowing snake, Arizona elegans, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico, having smooth, glistening scales of tan with brown blotches.
- glycerinated — to impregnate with glycerin.
- glycosidases — Plural form of glycosidase.
- glycosylated — Simple past tense and past participle of glycosylate.
- glyphography — a plate-making process in which an electrotype is made from an engraved copper plate
- glyptography — the description or study of engraved gems or other stones.
- gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
- golden years — the years that follow retirement from work
- 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.
- gradeability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
- grammatology — the scientific study of systems of writing.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- granulocytic — Of, or pertaining to, granulocytes.
- grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
- grass family — the large plant family Gramineae (or Poaceae), characterized by mostly herbaceous but sometimes woody plants with hollow and jointed stems, narrow sheathing leaves, petalless flowers borne in spikelets, and fruit in the form of seedlike grain, and including bamboo, sugar cane, numerous grasses, and cereal grains such as barley, corn, oats, rice, rye, and wheat.
- gratifyingly — In a manner that gratifies.
- gratuitously — given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary.
- gravity cell — a cell containing two electrolytes that have different specific gravities.
- graybar land — (jargon) The place you go while you're staring at a computer that's processing something very slowly (while you watch the grey bar creep across the screen). "I was in graybar land for hours, waiting for that CAD rendering".
- gregariously — fond of the company of others; sociable.
- grey wagtail — a greyish species of wagtail, Motacilla cinerea, found in temperate regions
- grey warbler — a small bush bird that hatches the eggs of the shining cuckoo
- grindability — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- grizzly bear — a large North American brown bear, Ursus (arctos) horribilis, with coarse, gray-tipped brown fur, once widespread in the western part of the continent as far south as northern Mexico but now restricted to some regions of Alaska, western Canada, and the U.S. Rocky Mountains: a threatened species except in Alaska.
- guilty party — the person or people responsible for an offence or misdeed
- gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
- hamartiology — the doctrine of sin in Christian theology
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- hearteningly — In a heartening way; cheeringly.
- hedge laying — the art or practice of making or maintaining a hedge by cutting branches partway through, laying them horizontally, and pegging them in position in order to create a strong thick hedge
- hepaticology — the scientific study of bryophyte plants known as hepatics or liverworts
- hepatomegaly — an abnormal enlargement of the liver, usually associated with liver disease or heart failure.
- hesitatingly — In a hesitating manner.
- high-ability — (of a student) having a higher than average ability
- high-quality — adhering to an excellent standard of measure; of superior quality: Education depends on high-quality teachers and materials in our schools.
- highly rated — generally considered to be of high quality
- hydrological — the science dealing with the occurrence, circulation, distribution, and properties of the waters of the earth and its atmosphere.
- hydroplaning — a seaplane.
- hygienically — conducive to good health; healthful; sanitary.
- hygrothermal — (physics) Of or pertaining to both humidity and temperature.
- hyperalgesia — an exaggerated sense of pain (opposed to hypalgesia).
- hyperalgesic — Of or pertaining to hyperalgesia.