12-letter words containing g, y, r
- craniography — examination of the skull as depicted by craniographs, photographs, and charts.
- crazy eights — a card game played by two or more persons with a 52-card deck, the object of which is to be the first to get rid of one's hand by successively playing a card of the same suit or denomination as that played by the preceding player, with an eight counting for any desired suit.
- crazy paving — Crazy paving is pieces of stone of different shapes fitted together to make a path or flat area.
- cringeworthy — Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness.
- criptography — (spelling) It's spelled "cryptography".
- cryoglobulin — an abnormal immunoglobulin, present in the blood in certain diseases, that precipitates below about 10°C, obstructing small blood vessels in the fingers and toes
- cryosurgical — of or relating to cryosurgery
- cryptogamian — of or relating to cryptogams
- cryptogamist — a botanist specializing in the study of cryptogams
- cryptogamous — Of or pertaining to the cryptogams.
- cryptography — the science or study of analysing and deciphering codes, ciphers, etc; cryptanalysis
- cryptologist — cryptography.
- cryptozygous — having the skull broad and the face narrow.
- crystalising — Present participle of crystalise.
- curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- currycombing — Present participle of currycomb.
- cybercasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- cybersurfing — The practice of using and browsing the Internet, especially as a habitual pastime.
- cycling tour — a holiday involving a tour of an area or region by bicycle
- cyclographic — of or relating to a cyclograph
- daguerrotype — Misspelling of daguerreotype.
- danger money — extra money paid to compensate for the risks involved in certain dangerous jobs
- day-tripping — to travel as a day-tripper.
- decreasingly — In a decreasing manner.
- degenerately — In a degenerate manner.
- degressively — in a degressive fashion
- demonography — a treatise on demons.
- denitrifying — to remove nitrogen or nitrogen compounds from.
- depressingly — In a depressing manner.
- deregulatory — Of or pertaining to deregulation.
- derogatively — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- derogatorily — tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory: a derogatory remark.
- despairingly — given to despair or hopelessness.
- devitrifying — Present participle of devitrify.
- dextrogyrate — having dextrorotation
- digressively — In a digressive fashion.
- disagreeably — In a disagreeable manner.
- discerningly — showing good or outstanding judgment and understanding: a discerning critic of French poetry.
- discongruity — incongruity.
- disgruntedly — In a disgruntled manner.
- distraughtly — distracted; deeply agitated.
- disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- ditriglyphic — of or pertaining to ditriglyphs
- diversifying — Present participle of diversify.
- dragonslayer — One who slays a dragon.
- drug holiday — a brief period during which a patient stops taking a prescribed medication, especially an antidepressant, to recover some normal functions, reduce side effects, or maintain sensitivity to the drug.
- dry gangrene — death of tissue owing to arterial obstruction without subsequent bacterial decomposition and putrefaction.
- dry mounting — the technique of fastening a print, photograph, or the like to a board by using a heated thermoplastic tissue as an adhesive.
- dry puddling — puddling in a furnace with a bottom of sand.