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8-letter words containing l, y, c, o

  • forcibly — done or effected by force: forcible entry into a house.
  • 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.
  • halcyone — a third-magnitude star in the constellation Taurus: brightest star in the Pleiades.
  • halcyons — Plural form of halcyon.
  • hectorly — in the manner of a hector
  • hillocky — Resembling a hillock.
  • holarchy — a system composed of interacting holons
  • holy cow — astonishment
  • icy cold — very cold
  • icy pole — an ice cream or water ice on a stick
  • impolicy — The state or act of being impolitic.
  • jocosely — given to or characterized by joking; jesting; humorous; playful: a jocose and amusing manner.
  • jocundly — In a jocund manner.
  • lipocyte — fat cell.
  • locality — a place, spot, or district, with or without reference to things or persons in it or to occurrences there: They moved to another locality.
  • loch tay — a lake in central Scotland, in Stirling council area. Length: 23 km (14 miles)
  • lock bay — a broadened section of a canal before the gates of a lock.
  • lockaway — an investment intended to be held for a relatively long time
  • locutory — locutorium.
  • louchely — in an oblique or shifty manner
  • lycaonia — an ancient country in S Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
  • lycopene — a red crystalline substance, C 40 H 56 , that is the main pigment of certain fruits, as the tomato and paprika, and is a precursor to carotene in plant biosynthesis.
  • lycopsid — Any primitive plant of the division Lycopodiophyta.
  • molybdic — of or containing molybdenum, especially in the trivalent or hexavalent states, as molybdic acid, H 2 MoO 4 .
  • mycology — the branch of biology dealing with fungi.
  • myologic — (medicine) Of or pertaining to the study of muscles or muscle tissue.
  • nocently — in a nocent manner; harmfully
  • nonlyric — (of poetry) not in a lyric style
  • normalcy — the quality or condition of being normal, as the general economic, political, and social conditions of a nation; normality: After months of living in a state of tension, all yearned for a return to normalcy.
  • occultly — In an occult manner.
  • 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.
  • odically — In terms of the hypothetical force called od.
  • oecology — the branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment, including other organisms.
  • oil city — a city in NW Pennsylvania, on the Allegheny River.
  • oncology — the branch of medical science dealing with tumors, including the origin, development, diagnosis, and treatment of malignant neoplasms.
  • overcloy — to weary with excess
  • poly i:c — a synthetic RNA that promotes the production of interferon in the body
  • poly sci — poli sci
  • polyacid — having more than one replaceable hydrogen atom.
  • polyadic — (of a relation, operation, etc) having several argument places, as … moves … from … to …, which might be represented as Mpox1y1z1t1x2y2z2t2 where p names a person, o an object, and each t a time, and each <x,y,z> the coordinates of a place
  • polyarch — (of a woody tissue) having multiple points of origin
  • polycarp — Saint, a.d. 69?–155, bishop of Smyrna and a Christian martyr.
  • polyclad — any free-swimming, marine flatworm of the order Polycladida, having a broad, flat body and a many-branched gastrovascular cavity.
  • polyenic — relating to a polyene
  • polyzoic — (of a bryozoan colony) composed of many zooids.
  • propylic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the propyl group.
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