8-letter words containing g, y, l, e
- lengthly — Misspelled form of lengthy.
- lethargy — the quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic, or indifferent and lazy; apathetic or sluggish inactivity.
- levogyre — an anticlockwise spiral
- logotype — Also called logo. a single piece of type bearing two or more uncombined letters, a syllable, or a word.
- lychgate — A roofed gateway to a churchyard, formerly used during burials for sheltering a coffin until the clergyman’s arrival.
- lysergic — Used in designation of lysergic acid, lysergic acid diethylamide.
- lysogens — Plural form of lysogen.
- lysogeny — the state of being lysogenic.
- meagerly — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
- meagrely — In a meagre way; poorly; inadequately.
- mealybug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- menology — a calendar of the months.
- oecology — the branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment, including other organisms.
- oenology — the science of viniculture.
- pedology — the scientific study of the nature and development of children.
- pelology — the study of the therapeutic uses of mud
- penology — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
- playgoer — a person who attends the theater often or habitually.
- polygene — one of a group of nonallelic genes that together control a quantitative characteristic in an organism.
- raggedly — clothed in tattered garments: a ragged old man.
- rayleigh — John William Strutt [struht] /strʌt/ (Show IPA), 3rd Baron, 1842–1919, English physicist: Nobel prize 1904.
- regality — royalty, sovereignty, or kingship.
- relaying — re-lay.
- rheology — the study of the deformation and flow of matter.
- ruggedly — having a roughly broken, rocky, hilly, or jagged surface: rugged ground.
- savagely — fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed: savage beasts.
- serology — the science dealing with the immunological properties and actions of serum.
- sexology — the study of sexual behavior.
- telegony — a former belief that a sire can influence the characteristics of the progeny of the female parent and subsequent mates.
- theology — the field of study and analysis that treats of God and of God's attributes and relations to the universe; study of divine things or religious truth; divinity.
- ungently — in an ungentle manner
- urgently — compelling or requiring immediate action or attention; imperative; pressing: an urgent matter.
- venology — phlebology.
- wayleggo — away here! let go!; a shepherd's call to a dog on completion of a task
- wingedly — in a winged manner, as if furnished with wings
- xenology — (chiefly in science fiction) the scientific study of alien biology, cultures, etc.
- yeanling — the young of a sheep or goat; a lamb or kid.
- yearling — an animal in its second year.
- yearlong — lasting for a year.
- yelpings — Plural form of yelping.
- yielding — inclined to give in; submissive; compliant: a timid, yielding man.
- yodeling — Present participle of yodel.
- yule log — a large log of wood that traditionally formed the backlog of the fire at Christmas.