9-letter words containing l, g, y
- gallantry — dashing courage; heroic bravery; noble-minded behavior.
- gallberry — either of two North American shrubs, Ilex glabra, the inkberry, or I. coriacea, having glossy leaves and white flowers.
- gallingly — In a galling manner.
- garbology — the study of the material discarded by a society to learn what it reveals about social or cultural patterns.
- gargoyled — (of a building) Having gargoyles carved into it.
- gargoyles — Plural form of gargoyle.
- garlandry — a collection of garlands
- garrulity — the quality of being garrulous; talkativeness; loquacity.
- geminally — in a geminal manner
- gemmology — (mineralogy, petrology) the branch of mineralogy that studies mineral gems and petrified gemstones.
- genealogy — a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc.
- geneology — Misspelling of genealogy.
- generalcy — the office or tenure of a general.
- generally — usually; commonly; ordinarily: He generally comes home at noon.
- geniality — warmly and pleasantly cheerful; cordial: a genial disposition; a genial host.
- genically — by a genic process
- genitally — Concerning the genitals.
- genteelly — belonging or suited to polite society.
- gentility — good breeding or refinement.
- genuinely — possessing the claimed or attributed character, quality, or origin; not counterfeit; authentic; real: genuine sympathy; a genuine antique.
- germanely — In a manner that is germane, relevantly.
- ghostlily — In a ghostly way.
- gigacycle — one billion cycles. Abbreviation: Gc.
- ginglymus — a joint in which movement is limited to one plane.
- girlishly — In a girlish manner.
- gizmology — gadgetry; gadgets collectively
- glace bay — a town in E Nova Scotia, in SE Canada, on E Cape Breton Island on the Atlantic Ocean.
- glacially — of or relating to glaciers or ice sheets.
- glaringly — shining with or reflecting a harshly bright or brilliant light.
- glass eye — artificial eye.
- glass tty — /glas T-T-Y/ or /glas ti'tee/ A terminal that has a display screen but which, because of hardware or software limitations, behaves like a teletype or some other printing terminal, thereby combining the disadvantages of both: like a printing terminal, it can't do fancy display hacks, and like a display terminal, it doesn't produce hard copy. An example is the early "dumb" version of Lear-Siegler ADM 3 (without cursor control). See tube, tty; compare dumb terminal, smart terminal. See "TV Typewriters" for an interesting true story about a glass tty.
- gleefully — full of exultant joy; merry; delighted.
- glengarry — a Scottish cap with straight sides, a crease along the top, and sometimes short ribbon streamers at the back, worn by Highlanders as part of military dress.
- globesity — obesity as affecting a very large percentage of the global population: the public-health crisis of globesity.
- globosely — In a globose manner.
- glory box — a box in which a young woman stores clothes, etc, in preparation for marriage
- glory-pea — either of two trailing plants, Clianthus formosus or C. puniceus, of Australia and New Zealand, having showy red flowers.
- gloryhole — (nonstandard,rare) To have sex through a glory hole.
- glowingly — incandescent.
- glueyness — the state of being gluey
- glyburide — a hypoglycemic substance, C 23 H 28 ClN 3 O 5 S, used orally in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
- glycaemia — the presence of glucose in the blood.
- glycaemic — Alternative spelling of glycemic.
- glycation — (biochemistry) non-enzymatic reaction of a sugar and an amine group of a protein to form a glycoprotein.
- glyceride — any of a group of esters obtained from glycerol by the replacement of one, two, or three hydroxyl groups with a fatty acid: the principal constituent of adipose tissue.
- glycerine — a colorless, odorless, syrupy, sweet liquid, C 3 H 8 O 3 , usually obtained by the saponification of natural fats and oils: used for sweetening and preserving food, in the manufacture of cosmetics, perfumes, inks, and certain glues and cements, as a solvent and automobile antifreeze, and in medicine in suppositories and skin emollients.
- glycerite — a preparation of a medicinal substance dissolved in or mixed with glycerin.
- glycerole — Dated form of glycerol.
- glyceryls — Plural form of glyceryl.
- glycocoll — glycine