8-letter words containing l, g, y
- long-day — requiring a long photoperiod in order to flower.
- longways — longwise.
- losingly — in a losing manner
- lovingly — feeling or showing love; warmly affectionate; fond: loving glances.
- luringly — in a luring or inviting manner
- lychgate — A roofed gateway to a churchyard, formerly used during burials for sheltering a coffin until the clergyman’s arrival.
- lycurgus — flourished 9th century b.c, Spartan lawgiver.
- lygodium — (botany) Any of the genus Lygodium of climbing ferns.
- lying-in — the state of being in childbed; confinement.
- lynching — to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.
- lysergic — Used in designation of lysergic acid, lysergic acid diethylamide.
- lysogens — Plural form of lysogen.
- lysogeny — the state of being lysogenic.
- malagasy — a member of any of various peoples native to the island of Madagascar.
- malignly — In a malign manner.
- mazology — (obsolete) mammalogy.
- 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.
- mightily — in a mighty manner; powerfully or vigorously.
- misology — distrust or hatred of reason or reasoning.
- mixology — the art or skill of preparing mixed drinks.
- monology — the act or habit of soliloquizing.
- mopingly — in a moping or dejected manner
- morology — Foolish talk; nonsense.
- movingly — capable of or having movement: a moving object.
- multigym — A gym consisting of several items of weightlifting apparatus.
- musingly — absorbed in thought; meditative.
- myalgias — pain in the muscles; muscular rheumatism.
- mycology — the branch of biology dealing with fungi.
- myologic — (medicine) Of or pertaining to the study of muscles or muscle tissue.
- nasology — the scientific study of noses.
- naughtly — (obsolete) naughtily; wrongly.
- nomology — the science of law or laws.
- nosology — the systematic classification of diseases.
- nostalgy — nostalgia.
- oblongly — In an oblong orientation.
- octalogy — (rare) # A set of eight works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as eight individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- oecology — the branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment, including other organisms.
- oenology — the science of viniculture.
- old fogy — a person who is excessively old-fashioned in attitude, ideas, manners, etc.
- oncology — the branch of medical science dealing with tumors, including the origin, development, diagnosis, and treatment of malignant neoplasms.
- ontology — the branch of metaphysics that studies the nature of existence or being as such.
- optology — the science of testing eyes for lenses
- outlying — lying at a distance from the center or the main body; remote; out-of-the-way: outlying military posts.
- palilogy — the technique of repeating a word or phrase for emphasis.
- paralogy — false reasoning
- pedology — the scientific study of the nature and development of children.
- pelology — the study of the therapeutic uses of mud