12-letter words containing g, a, y, l
- polarography — Chemistry. the use of a Polarograph to perform qualitative or quantitative analyses.
- policymaking — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- polygamistic — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
- polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- prelingually — in a prelingual manner
- proteoglycan — a macromolecule composed of a polysaccharide joined to a polypeptide and forming the ground substance of connective tissue.
- pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- pyramidology — a belief system based on the supposed occult significance of the Egyptian pyramids
- radio galaxy — a galaxy that emits much more strongly in the radio part of the spectrum than does a typical galaxy.
- radiobiology — the branch of biology dealing with the effects of radiation on living matter.
- radioecology — the branch of ecology concerned with the effects of radioactivity on the environment
- rallying cry — A rallying cry or rallying call is something such as a word or phrase, an event, or a belief which encourages people to unite and to act in support of a particular group or idea.
- reassuringly — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
- regardlessly — having or showing no regard; heedless; unmindful (often followed by of).
- regenerately — in a regenerate manner
- regular army — the permanent army maintained in peace as well as in war; the standing army: one of the major components of the Army of the United States.
- regular year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
- rheumatology — the study and treatment of rheumatic diseases.
- role playing — role-play used as a method of training or education
- role-playing — a method of instruction or psychotherapy aimed at changing attitudes and behavior, in which participants act out designated roles relevant to real-life situations.
- rugby league — a form of rugby football played between teams of 13 players
- rugby player — a person who plays rugby
- rugby tackle — A rugby tackle is a way of making someone fall over by throwing your arms around their legs or hips.
- ruminatingly — in a ruminating manner
- safety glass — a pane made by joining two plates or panes of glass with a layer of usually transparent plastic or artificial resin between them that retains the fragments if the glass is broken.
- salary range — pay scale
- 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
- 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.
- selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- self-playing — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
- single-payer — noting or relating to a healthcare or health insurance system in which the government or a publicly owned and regulated agency pays all medical costs from a single fund.
- solar energy — energy derived from the sun in the form of solar radiation.
- splenomegaly — enlargement of the spleen.
- spongillafly — spongefly.
- stageability — a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- staggeringly — tending to stagger or overwhelm: a staggering amount of money required in the initial investment.
- stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
- surpassingly — of a large amount or high degree; exceeding, excelling, or extraordinary: structures of surpassing magnificence.
- synergically — in a synergic manner
- tangentially — pertaining to or of the nature of a tangent; being or moving in the direction of a tangent.
- telergically — in a telergic manner
- thaumatology — the study or description of miracles.