12-letter words containing g, l, a, r, y
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- hyperlogical — reasoning in accordance with the principles of logic, as a person or the mind: logical thinking.
- hypermagical — produced by or as if by magic: The change in the appearance of the room was magical.
- hypoallergic — Hypoallergenic.
- increasingly — growing larger or greater; enlarging; augmenting.
- interplaying — Present participle of interplay.
- irrefragably — In an irrefragable state or condition.
- irregularity — the quality or state of being irregular.
- irritatingly — causing irritation; annoying; provoking: irritating questions.
- kolyma range — a mountain range in NE Russia, in NE Siberia, extending about 1100 km (700 miles) between the Kolyma River and the Sea of Okhotsk. Highest peak: 1862 m (6109 ft)
- languorously — characterized by languor; languid.
- laryngealize — to pronounce with accompanying constriction of the larynx.
- laryngectomy — excision of part or all of the larynx.
- laryngophone — A type of contact microphone that absorbs vibrations directly from the wearer's throat.
- laryngophony — the sound of the voice as heard through a stethoscope placed on the throat directly over the larynx
- laryngoscope — a rigid or flexible endoscope passed through the mouth and equipped with a source of light and magnification, for examining and performing local diagnostic and surgical procedures on the larynx.
- laryngoscopy — an examination by means of a laryngoscope.
- laryngospasm — An uncontrolled, spasmodic closure of the larynx.
- lawyer's wig — the shaggy ink-cap
- legal memory — a period of time, now usually established by statute, during which custom, conduct, or a state of affairs must have existed or continued in order for it to have taken on the force of law or to establish a legal right or title not otherwise provable.
- lexicography — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- liberatingly — In a liberating manner.
- liturgically — of or relating to formal public worship or liturgies.
- lognormality — the condition of having a natural logarithm with normal distribution
- long gallery — a large gallery, found especially in the uppermost stories of Elizabethan and Jacobean manor houses, used as a family room and as a promenade.
- longyearbyen — a village on Spitsbergen island, administrative centre of the Svalbard archipelago: coal-mining
- lymphography — lymphangiography.
- managerially — pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society.
- meanderingly — In a meandering or winding manner.
- moralizingly — In a moralizing fashion.
- myoneuralgia — myalgia.
- obligatorily — required as a matter of obligation; mandatory: A reply is desirable but not obligatory.
- oral surgery — the branch of dentistry or of surgery dealing with the surgical treatment or repair of various conditions of the mouth or jaws.