8-letter words containing o, y, l
- 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
- halcyone — a third-magnitude star in the constellation Taurus: brightest star in the Pleiades.
- halcyons — Plural form of halcyon.
- haploidy — (genetics) The state of being haploid.
- harlotry — prostitution.
- haylofts — Plural form of hayloft.
- hectorly — in the manner of a hector
- hemolyze — to subject (red blood cells) to hemolysis.
- 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.
- hillocky — Resembling a hillock.
- hoarsely — having a vocal tone characterized by weakness of intensity and excessive breathiness; husky: the hoarse voice of the auctioneer.
- hodology — The study of pathways.
- hogmolly — hog sucker.
- holarchy — a system composed of interacting holons
- holiatry — holism (def 2).
- holidays — Plural form of holiday.
- holliday — Judith Tuvim ("Judy") 1921–65, U.S. comic actress.
- hollowly — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
- 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
- holonymy — (countable, semantics) A semantic relation that exists between a term denoting a whole (the holonym) and a term denoting a part that pertains to the whole (the meronym).