8-letter words containing l, o, g, y
- galloway — a historic region in SW Scotland.
- gardyloo — (Scotland, obsolete) Used by servants in medieval Scotland to warn passers-by of waste about to be thrown from a window into the street below. The term was still in use as late the 1930s and 1940s, when many people had no indoor toilets.
- gargoyle — a grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal.
- gealousy — Obsolete form of jealousy.
- gemology — the science dealing with natural and artificial gemstones.
- geoglyph — A large-scale drawing made on the ground by scratching or arranging lines of stones etc.
- geolatry — the worship of the earth
- glamoury — (obsolete) magic.
- globally — pertaining to the whole world; worldwide; universal: the dream of global peace.
- gloomily — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
- glorying — Present participle of glory.
- glossary — a list of terms in a special subject, field, or area of usage, with accompanying definitions.
- glossily — In a glossy manner.
- gluttony — excessive eating and drinking.
- glycerol — 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.
- glycogen — a white, tasteless polysaccharide, (C 6 H 10 O 5) n , molecularly similar to starch, constituting the principal carbohydrate storage material in animals and occurring chiefly in the liver, in muscle, and in fungi and yeasts.
- glycolic — pertaining to or derived from glycol.
- glyconic — (of a line of verse) consisting of three trochees and one dactyl
- glycosyl — (biochemistry) Any functional group derived from a sugar (especially from a monosaccharide) by removal of the hemiacetal hydroxy group.
- goldenly — In a golden manner.
- gollywog — Alternative form of golliwog.
- gorbelly — a protruding belly.
- gospelly — Resembling gospel music.
- gossypol — a toxic pigment, C 30 H 30 O 8 , derived from cottonseed oil, made nontoxic by heating, presently under study as a potential male contraceptive and antimicrobial.
- grey owl — Grey Owl, original name Archibald Belaney (1888–1938). Canadian writer and conservationist, born in England; adopted Native American identity
- groggily — staggering, as from exhaustion or blows: a boxer groggy from his opponent's hard left jab.
- growlery — a place to retreat to, alone, when ill-humoured
- gulosity — gluttony or greediness.
- gurgoyle — Alternative form of gargoyle.
- gyroidal — having a spiral arrangement.
- gyrolite — calcium silicate hydroxide in a hydrated form
- hexalogy — A set of six works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as six individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- hodology — The study of pathways.
- hogmolly — hog sucker.
- hologamy — a type of reproduction in which the gametes are like ordinary cells in form and size, as is found in some algae and protozoa
- hologyny — the inheritance of genetic traits through females only
- homology — the state of being homologous; homologous relation or correspondence.
- hopingly — in a hopeful manner
- horology — the art or science of making timepieces or of measuring time.
- hyalogen — any of several insoluble substances found in many animal structures such as cartilage which yield sugars on hydrolysis structures
- hydrogel — a gel whose liquid constituent is water.
- hypergol — any hypergolic agent.
- hypogeal — underground; subterranean.
- idealogy — Misspelling of ideology.
- ideology — the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group.
- jokingly — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
- jollying — Present participle of jolly.
- kidology — the art or practice of bluffing or deception
- kilogray — one thousand grays
- laryngo- — indicating the larynx