10-letter words containing l, a, r, y, s
- galsworthy — John, 1867–1933, English novelist and dramatist: Nobel Prize 1932.
- gargoylish — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a gargoyle.
- gargoylism — a congenital abnormality characterized chiefly by dwarfism, grotesque deformities of the head, trunk, and limbs, mental retardation, and enlargement of the liver and spleen.
- gastrology — the study of the structure, functions, and diseases of the stomach.
- gesturally — in a gestural manner
- glory days — very great praise, honor, or distinction bestowed by common consent; renown: to win glory on the field of battle.
- glycosuria — excretion of glucose in the urine, as in diabetes.
- graciously — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
- graspingly — In a grasping manner.
- gray scale — a scale of achromatic colors having several, usually ten, equal gradations ranging from white to black, used in television and photography.
- gray-scale — (spelling) US spelling of "grey-scale".
- grey-scale — (graphics) (US "gray-scale") 1. Composed of (discrete) shades of grey. If the pixels of a grey-scale image have N bits, they may take values from zero, representing black up to 2^N-1, representing white with intermediate values representing increasingly light shades of grey. If N=1 the image is not called grey-scale but could be called monochrome. 2. A range of acurately known shades of grey printed out for use in calibrating those shades on a display or printer.
- gyrfalcons — Plural form of gyrfalcon.
- hair style — a style of cutting, arranging, or combing the hair; hairdo; coiffure.
- hairstyles — Plural form of hairstyle.
- half story — a usable living space within a sloping roof, usually having dormer windows for lighting.
- harassedly — in a harassed manner
- harmlessly — In a harmless manner.
- hattersley — Roy (Sydney George), Baron Hattersley of Sparkbrook. born 1932, British Labour politician; deputy leader of the Labour Party (1983–92); shadow home secretary (1980–83; 1987–92)
- holy grass — any of several fragrant grasses of the genus Hierochloë, especially H. odorata, the vanilla grass.
- hydraulics — the science that deals with the laws governing water or other liquids in motion and their applications in engineering; practical or applied hydrodynamics.
- hydrolases — Plural form of hydrolase.
- hydrosomal — of or relating to a hydrosome
- hyoplastra — the second foremost pair of plastral bones in a turtle
- hyperbolas — Plural form of hyperbola.
- hyperlapse — Lb photography A form of time-lapse photography where the camera is gradually moved across a long distance, such as down a highway, and a frame is captured at each new position.
- hysterical — of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria.
- hystorical — Nonstandard spelling of historical.
- inerasably — in an inerasable fashion
- insalutary — Not salutary or wholesome; bad for health.
- insularity — of or relating to an island or islands: insular possessions.
- interplays — Plural form of interplay.
- jaywalkers — Plural form of jaywalker.
- karyolysis — the dissolution of a cell nucleus.
- karyoplasm — nucleoplasm.
- labyrinths — Plural form of labyrinth.
- lachrymals — Plural form of lachrymal.
- lachrymose — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- lamb's fry — lamb's offal, esp lamb's testicles, as food
- laryngeals — Plural form of laryngeal.
- laryngitis — inflammation of the larynx, often with accompanying sore throat, hoarseness or loss of voice, and dry cough.
- lay person — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- lay sister — a woman who has taken religious vows and habit but is employed in her order chiefly in manual labor.
- lead story — the principal story in a newspaper
- leisurably — in a leisurable manner
- lord's day — the, Sunday.
- lyme grass — type of perennial dune grass
- lyre snake — any of several mildly venomous colubrid snakes of the genus Trimorphodon, inhabiting rocky areas from the southwestern U.S. to Central America, having fangs in the rear of the upper jaw and a lyre-shaped marking on the head.
- lysistrata — a comedy (411 b.c.) by Aristophanes.
- malmesbury — William of, William of Malmesbury.