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12-letter words containing l, y

  • glossarially — In the manner of a glossary.
  • glossography — a glossator.
  • glossy snake — a nocturnal burrowing snake, Arizona elegans, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico, having smooth, glistening scales of tan with brown blotches.
  • gluttonously — tending to eat and drink excessively; voracious.
  • glycerinated — to impregnate with glycerin.
  • glycerolipid — (organic chemistry) Any lipid based on glycerol.
  • glycerolysis — chemical decomposition resulting from the interaction of a compound and glycerol.
  • glycogenesis — the formation of glycogen from monosaccharides in the body, especially glucose.
  • glycogenetic — of or relating to the formation of sugar in the liver.
  • glycogenosis — any of several inherited disorders of glycogen metabolism that result in excess accumulation of glycogen in various organs of the body.
  • glycopeptide — any of a group of complex proteins, as mucin, containing a carbohydrate combined with a simple protein.
  • glycoprotein — any of a group of complex proteins, as mucin, containing a carbohydrate combined with a simple protein.
  • glycosidases — Plural form of glycosidase.
  • glycosylated — Simple past tense and past participle of glycosylate.
  • glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
  • 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.
  • gobbledygook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
  • god's plenty — an abundant or overabundant quantity.
  • gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
  • golden syrup — treacle (def 2b).
  • golden years — the years that follow retirement from work
  • goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
  • gollywobbler — a very large quadrilateral staysail set between the foremast and mainmast of a schooner.
  • good ol' boy — a male who embodies the unsophisticated good fellowship and sometimes boisterous sociability regarded as typical of white males of small towns and rural areas of the South.
  • good old boy — a male who embodies the unsophisticated good fellowship and sometimes boisterous sociability regarded as typical of white males of small towns and rural areas of the South.
  • 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.
  • gradeability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
  • grammatology — the scientific study of systems of writing.
  • granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
  • granulocytic — Of, or pertaining to, granulocytes.
  • grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
  • grass family — the large plant family Gramineae (or Poaceae), characterized by mostly herbaceous but sometimes woody plants with hollow and jointed stems, narrow sheathing leaves, petalless flowers borne in spikelets, and fruit in the form of seedlike grain, and including bamboo, sugar cane, numerous grasses, and cereal grains such as barley, corn, oats, rice, rye, and wheat.
  • gratifyingly — In a manner that gratifies.
  • gratuitously — given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary.
  • gravity cell — a cell containing two electrolytes that have different specific gravities.
  • graybar land — (jargon)   The place you go while you're staring at a computer that's processing something very slowly (while you watch the grey bar creep across the screen). "I was in graybar land for hours, waiting for that CAD rendering".
  • gregariously — fond of the company of others; sociable.
  • grey wagtail — a greyish species of wagtail, Motacilla cinerea, found in temperate regions
  • grey warbler — a small bush bird that hatches the eggs of the shining cuckoo
  • grindability — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
  • grizzly bear — a large North American brown bear, Ursus (arctos) horribilis, with coarse, gray-tipped brown fur, once widespread in the western part of the continent as far south as northern Mexico but now restricted to some regions of Alaska, western Canada, and the U.S. Rocky Mountains: a threatened species except in Alaska.
  • groundlessly — In a groundless manner; without justification.
  • grovellingly — With grovelling or self-abasement; obsequiously.
  • guilty party — the person or people responsible for an offence or misdeed
  • gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
  • gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
  • gynecologist — a physician specializing in gynecology. Abbreviation: GYN, gyn.
  • habitability — capable of being inhabited.
  • hadley chest — a style of chest made c1700 in Massachusetts or Connecticut, having front rails and panels carved in low relief with elaborate tulip and leaf patterns.
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