8-letter words containing g, a, y, l
- dallying — Present participle of dally.
- daringly — In a daring manner; boldly; courageously; fearlessly; impudently.
- day girl — a girl who attends a boarding school daily, but returns home each evening
- daylight — Daylight is the natural light that there is during the day, before it gets dark.
- decalogy — A set of ten works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as ten individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- dekalogy — a series of ten related works
- delaying — to put off to a later time; defer; postpone: The pilot delayed the flight until the weather cleared.
- delegacy — an elected standing committee at some British universities
- diaglyph — any instance of artwork carved into the surface of a hard substance (predominantly stone or metal), such that the design is set back from the surface; an intaglio
- dillybag — (Australia) Alternative form of dilly bag.
- dyslogia — inability to express ideas because of faulty reasoning or speech, due to a mental disorder.
- e galaxy — a type of galaxy having the shape of a spheroid or ellipsoid, rather than a disk.
- elegancy — Alternative form of elegance.
- eyeglass — A single lens for correcting or assisting defective eyesight, especially a monocle.
- fall guy — an easy victim.
- flag day — June 14, the anniversary of the day (June 14, 1777) when Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag of the United States.
- fly page — banner
- frugally — economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful: What your office needs is a frugal manager who can save you money without resorting to painful cutbacks. Synonyms: thrifty, chary, provident, careful, prudent, penny-wise, scrimping; miserly, Scotch, penny-pinching. Antonyms: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, prodigal, profligate.
- gala day — a day of sports, entertainment, etc, often organized in order to raise money for a charity, cause, school, etc
- galabiya — djellabah.
- galloway — a historic region in SW Scotland.
- gameplay — The tactical aspects of a computer game, such as its plot and the way it is played, as distinct from the graphics and sound effects.
- gapingly — In a gaping way.
- gardyloo — (Scotland, obsolete) Used by servants in medieval Scotland to warn passers-by of waste about to be thrown from a window into the street below. The term was still in use as late the 1930s and 1940s, when many people had no indoor toilets.
- gargoyle — a grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal.
- garishly — crudely or tastelessly colorful, showy, or elaborate, as clothes or decoration.
- garlicky — a hardy plant, Allium sativum, of the amaryllis family whose strongly, pungent bulb is used in cookery and medicine.
- gauchely — In a gauche manner.
- gayelles — Plural form of gayelle.
- gealousy — Obsolete form of jealousy.
- genially — characterized by genius.
- geolatry — the worship of the earth
- girlyman — (slang, derogatory) An effeminate man, a pussy.
- glad eye — a friendly or interested glance, especially a flirtatious one.
- glamoury — (obsolete) magic.
- glassify — to become glass or glass-like
- glassily — In a glassy manner.
- glaziery — the work of a glazier; glasswork.
- globally — pertaining to the whole world; worldwide; universal: the dream of global peace.
- glossary — a list of terms in a special subject, field, or area of usage, with accompanying definitions.
- glycemia — the presence of glucose in the blood.
- glyceria — any aquatic grass species in the genus Glyceria
- gradably — In a gradable manner.
- graithly — in a graith manner
- grassily — in a grassy manner
- gravelly — of, like, or abounding in gravel.
- grayling — any freshwater fish of the genus Thymallus, related to the trouts but having a longer and higher, brilliantly colored dorsal fin.
- graymail — a means of preventing prosecution, as for espionage, by threatening to disclose government secrets during trial.
- greasily — In a greasy manner.
- gunlayer — a person who aims a ship's gun