12-letter words containing g, r, i, t, y
- high country — a mountainous area below the timberline; a forested mountain area.
- highly rated — generally considered to be of high quality
- historiology — (obsolete) a discourse on history.
- hominy grits — grits (def 1).
- hydrologists — Plural form of hydrologist.
- hygrochastic — of or relating to the opening of a fruit or flower caused by water or moisture
- hypergenetic — Biology. pertaining or according to genetics.
- hypergravity — The presence of an apparently 'increased' gravitational field in an accelerating or rotating situation.
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
- hysterogenic — inducing hysteria.
- inauguratory — Inaugural; being the first instance.
- interplaying — Present participle of interplay.
- intriguingly — to arouse the curiosity or interest of by unusual, new, or otherwise fascinating or compelling qualities; appeal strongly to; captivate: The plan intrigues me, but I wonder if it will work.
- inventorying — Present participle of inventory.
- irregularity — the quality or state of being irregular.
- irritatingly — causing irritation; annoying; provoking: irritating questions.
- jersey giant — one of a breed of large domestic chickens raised primarily for their meat, originally black but now with a white variety, developed in New Jersey by interbreeding Langshans and large Asiatic fowl.
- kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- liberatingly — In a liberating manner.
- liturgically — of or relating to formal public worship or liturgies.
- liturgiology — liturgics.
- live yoghurt — yoghurt that contains live bacteria
- lognormality — the condition of having a natural logarithm with normal distribution
- lugubriosity — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
- mercy flight — an aircraft flight to bring a seriously ill or injured person to hospital from an isolated community
- methysergide — an ergot alkaloid derivative, C 2 1 H 2 7 N 3 O 2 , used in the prophylaxis and treatment of migraine and cluster headaches.
- microgravity — a condition, especially in space orbit, where the force of gravity is so weak that weightlessness results.
- monotriglyph — (in the Doric order) any intercolumniation having one whole triglyph.
- mortifyingly — In a mortifying manner; so as to cause great embarrassment.
- motorcycling — Present participle of motorcycle.
- mythologizer — One who, or that which, mythologizes.
- night prayer — the last of the seven canonical hours; compline
- nitty-gritty — the essential substance or details of a matter; basics; crux: Let's skip the chitchat and get down to the nitty-gritty.
- nonmigratory — Not migratory; that does not migrate.
- obligatorily — required as a matter of obligation; mandatory: A reply is desirable but not obligatory.
- origin story — a backstory, or established background narrative, that informs the identity and motivations of heroes and villains in a comic book or similar fictional work: The superhero’s origin story begins with a tragic accident that left him scarred, but also resulted in his supernatural powers.
- panty girdle — women's control pants
- parasitology — the branch of biology dealing with parasites and the effects of parasitism.
- perinatology — a field of medicine focusing on problems emerging during the perinatal period.
- petroglyphic — relating to or having the characteristics of a petroglyph or carving made in rock
- physogastric — pertaining to the swollen, membranous abdomen of certain insects, especially termite and ant queens.
- pig industry — the people and activities involved in making pork products
- polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- polytriglyph — (in classical architecture) an intercolumniation of at least four triglyphs.
- pretendingly — falsely
- prodigiosity — the state or quality of being immense, extraordinary or astonishing
- protectingly — in a protective manner
- protistology — the biology of the Protista.
- pyrogenicity — the characteristic of causing fever
- pyrognostics — the characteristics of a mineral, such as fusibility and flame coloration, that are revealed by the application of heat