12-letter words containing g, y
- degenerately — In a degenerate manner.
- degressively — in a degressive fashion
- delightfully — giving great pleasure or delight; highly pleasing: a delightful surprise.
- demonography — a treatise on demons.
- demulsifying — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- demystifying — Present participle of demystify.
- demythifying — to create a myth about (a person, place, tradition, etc.); cause to become a myth.
- denitrifying — to remove nitrogen or nitrogen compounds from.
- deoxygenated — to remove oxygen from (a substance, as blood or water).
- deoxygenized — Simple past tense and past participle of deoxygenize.
- 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.
- descendingly — In a descending manner.
- desolatingly — in a way that desolates, in a desolating fashion
- despairingly — given to despair or hopelessness.
- devitrifying — Present participle of devitrify.
- dextrogyrate — having dextrorotation
- dialectology — the study of dialects and dialectal variations
- dialogically — in a dialogic manner
- 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.
- disembodying — Present participle of disembody.
- disgruntedly — In a disgruntled manner.
- disgustfully — in a disgustful manner
- disgustingly — causing disgust; offensive to the physical, moral, or aesthetic taste.
- disingenuity — (obsolete) disingenuousness.
- dismissingly — In a dismissing manner; dismissively.
- 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.
- dodecagynian — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
- dodecagynous — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
- doggy paddle — a swimming stroke in which the swimmer lies on his or her front, paddles his or her hands in imitation of a swimming dog, and beats his or her legs up and down
- dogmatically — relating to or of the nature of a dogma or dogmas or any strong set of principles concerning faith, morals, etc., as those laid down by a church; doctrinal: We hear dogmatic arguments from both sides of the political spectrum.
- double bogey — a score of two strokes over par on a hole.
- 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.
- dry tortugas — a group of eight coral islands at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico: part of Florida
- dry-cleaning — Dry-cleaning is the action or work of dry-cleaning things such as clothes.
- drying agent — A drying agent is used in an absorption column (= a tall vessel) to remove water from fractions.
- dual highway — divided highway.
- dunny budgie — a blowfly