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12-letter words containing g, a, y

  • 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.
  • graph theory — the branch of mathematics dealing with linear graphs.
  • 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.
  • grass hockey — field hockey.
  • 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.
  • gravity feed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
  • gravity wave — Astronomy, Physics. gravitational wave.
  • gravity wind — a light wind directed downslope, occurring at night because of the cooling and densification of the air near the ground.
  • gray catbird — any of several American or Australian birds having catlike cries, especially Dumetella carolinensis (gray catbird) of North America.
  • gray panther — a member of an organized group of elderly people seeking to secure or protect their rights by collective action.
  • gray snapper — a snapper, Lutjanus griseus, of shallow waters off the coast of Florida, having a grayish-green body with a brown spot on each scale.
  • grayanotoxin — a toxin found in the nectar of some species of rhododendron and other plants of the family Ericaceae and in food made from their nectar, as unpasteurized honey, poisonous to humans and animals.
  • 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".
  • grayson kirk — Grayson (Louis) 1903–1997, U.S. educator: president of Columbia University 1953–68.
  • greasy spoon — a cheap and rather unsanitary restaurant.
  • great gatsby — a novel (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
  • great sunday — Easter Sunday.
  • gregariously — fond of the company of others; sociable.
  • grey gurnard — a species of scorpionfish, Eutriglia gurnardus
  • grey panther — a member of the generation of affluent older consumers, who regard themselves as young, active, and 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.
  • gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
  • gynaecocracy — Alternative form of gynecocracy.
  • gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
  • gynecomastia — abnormal enlargement of the breast in a male.
  • gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
  • gyromagnetic — of or relating to the magnetic properties of a rotating charged particle.
  • hamartiology — the doctrine of sin in Christian theology
  • hangchow bay — a bay of the East China Sea.
  • hangtown fry — a type of omelet to which fried oysters, bacon, and sometimes onions are added.
  • headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
  • hearteningly — In a heartening way; cheeringly.
  • heavy oxygen — either of the two stable isotopes of oxygen having mass numbers of 17 and 18.
  • heavyweights — Plural form of heavyweight.
  • 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.
  • heterogamety — the condition or state of being heterogametic
  • heterography — spelling different from that in current use.
  • high and dry — having a great or considerable extent or reach upward or vertically; lofty; tall: a high wall.
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