12-letter words containing l, a, y, o, r
- extrasystole — A heartbeat outside the normal rhythm, as often occurs in normal individuals.
- facilitatory — That serves to facilitate.
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- favorability — The quality or degree of being viewed favorably.
- fibromyalgia — a syndrome characterized by fatigue and chronic pain in the muscles and in tissues surrounding the joints.
- flagellatory — relating to flagellation
- flash memory — Computers. a type of reprogrammable memory that retains information even with the power turned off.
- flatterously — in a flatterous manner
- flavorlessly — In a flavorless way.
- florida keys — chain of small islands extending southwest from the S tip of Fla.
- fluorography — photofluorography.
- food allergy — an allergy to a specific type of food
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- forehandedly — Prudently, with thrift and foresight.
- forensically — pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate.
- forestaysail — a triangular sail set on a forestay; the innermost headsail of a vessel.
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- formaldehyde — a colorless, toxic, potentially carcinogenic, water-soluble gas, CH 2 O, having a suffocating odor, usually derived from methyl alcohol by oxidation: used chiefly in aqueous solution, as a disinfectant and preservative, and in the manufacture of various resins and plastics.
- fractionally — pertaining to fractions; comprising a part or the parts of a unit; constituting a fraction: fractional numbers.
- frictionally — In terms of friction.
- galley proof — a proof, originally one set from type in a galley, taken before the material has been made up into pages and usually printed as a single column of type with wide margins for marking corrections.
- galvanometry — the method or process of determining the strength of electric currents.
- gastroplasty — any plastic surgery on the stomach.
- geothermally — By geothermal means, especially by means of geothermal energy.
- glossarially — In the manner of a glossary.
- glossography — a glossator.
- glyphography — a plate-making process in which an electrotype is made from an engraved copper plate
- glyptography — the description or study of engraved gems or other stones.
- gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
- golden years — the years that follow retirement from work
- gourd family — the plant family Cucurbitaceae, characterized by tendril-bearing vines, either trailing or climbing and having alternate, palmately lobed leaves, often large yellow or greenish flowers, and many-seeded, fleshy fruit with a hard rind, and including the cucumber, gourd, melon, pumpkin, and squash.
- grammatology — the scientific study of systems of writing.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- granulocytic — Of, or pertaining to, granulocytes.
- gratuitously — given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary.
- gregariously — fond of the company of others; sociable.
- hamartiology — the doctrine of sin in Christian theology
- harmonically — pertaining to harmony, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
- harmoniously — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- heliotherapy — treatment of disease by means of sunlight.
- hemodialyzer — artificial kidney.
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
- heterodactyl — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
- heteroplasty — the repair of lesions with tissue from another individual or species.
- heterothally — the condition of being heterothallic
- hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
- historically — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- holidaymaker — vacationer.