9-letter words containing g, a, y, l
- gigacycle — one billion cycles. Abbreviation: Gc.
- glace bay — a town in E Nova Scotia, in SE Canada, on E Cape Breton Island on the Atlantic Ocean.
- glacially — of or relating to glaciers or ice sheets.
- glaringly — shining with or reflecting a harshly bright or brilliant light.
- glass eye — artificial eye.
- glass tty — /glas T-T-Y/ or /glas ti'tee/ A terminal that has a display screen but which, because of hardware or software limitations, behaves like a teletype or some other printing terminal, thereby combining the disadvantages of both: like a printing terminal, it can't do fancy display hacks, and like a display terminal, it doesn't produce hard copy. An example is the early "dumb" version of Lear-Siegler ADM 3 (without cursor control). See tube, tty; compare dumb terminal, smart terminal. See "TV Typewriters" for an interesting true story about a glass tty.
- glengarry — a Scottish cap with straight sides, a crease along the top, and sometimes short ribbon streamers at the back, worn by Highlanders as part of military dress.
- glory-pea — either of two trailing plants, Clianthus formosus or C. puniceus, of Australia and New Zealand, having showy red flowers.
- glycaemia — the presence of glucose in the blood.
- glycaemic — Alternative spelling of glycemic.
- glycation — (biochemistry) non-enzymatic reaction of a sugar and an amine group of a protein to form a glycoprotein.
- glycolate — a salt or ester of glycolic acid.
- gnawingly — In a manner that chafes or worries.
- goadingly — So as to goad or incite.
- goatishly — In a goatish way.
- golomynka — an oily fish found only in Lake Baikal
- gonyaulax — any marine dinoflagellate of the genus Gonyaulax, sometimes occurring in great numbers and causing red tide.
- gracility — The state of being gracefully slender.
- gradually — taking place, changing, moving, etc., by small degrees or little by little: gradual improvement in health.
- granulary — granular
- gratingly — irritating or unpleasant to one's feelings.
- gray lady — a female worker in the American Red Cross who serves as a volunteer aide in medical services.
- gray mold — a disease of plants, characterized by a gray, furry coating on the decaying parts, caused by any of several fungi.
- gray wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus, having a usually grizzled, blackish, or whitish coat: formerly common in Eurasia and North America, some subspecies are now reduced in numbers or near extinction.
- graylings — Plural form of grayling.
- grayscale — a scale of achromatic colors having several, usually ten, equal gradations ranging from white to black, used in television and photography.
- grey seal — a greyish species of earless seal, Halichoerus grypus
- greyscale — Alternative spelling of grayscale.
- guanylate — (biochemistry) any salt or ester of guanylic acid; the salts are used as flavour enhancers.
- guardedly — cautious; careful; prudent: to be guarded in one's speech.
- guayaquil — a seaport in W Ecuador, on the Gulf of Guayaquil.
- gym class — physical education lesson
- gymnasial — relating to gymnasium schools
- gyrfalcon — a large falcon, Falco rusticolus, of arctic and subarctic regions, having white, gray, or blackish color phases: now greatly reduced in number.
- gyroplane — autogiro.
- haggardly — In a haggard manner.
- hagiology — the branch of literature dealing with the lives and legends of the saints.
- haltingly — faltering or hesitating, especially in speech.
- haplology — the omission of one of two similar adjacent syllables or sounds in a word, as in substituting morphonemic for morphophonemic or in the pronunciation [prob-lee] /ˈprɒb li/ (Show IPA) for probably.
- haughtily — disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.
- healingly — in a healing manner, intended to heal
- heptalogy — (rare) # A set of seven works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as seven individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- hypallage — the reversal of the expected syntactic relation between two words, as in “her beauty's face” for “her face's beauty.”.
- iatrology — Medical science.
- illegally — forbidden by law or statute.
- irrigably — in an irrigable manner
- jarringly — to have a harshly unpleasant or perturbing effect on one's nerves, feelings, thoughts, etc.: The sound of the alarm jarred.
- jelly bag — a muslin bag used to strain off the juice from the fruit in making jelly (the preserve)
- kali yuga — the fourth and present age of the world, full of conflict and sin.
- karyology — the study of the structure and function of cell nuclei.