12-letter words containing y, a, g, i, e, r
- gay marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- gay-friendly — welcoming to gay people
- gene library — a collection of gene clones that represents the genetic material of an organism: used in genetic engineering
- generability — capable of being generated or produced.
- generation y — members of the generation of people born between the early 1980s and mid-1990s who are seen as being discerning consumers with a high disposable income
- generatively — capable of producing or creating.
- generativity — Relating to the ability to create or reproduce.
- georgian bay — the NE part of Lake Huron, in Ontario, Canada. 6000 sq. mi. (15,500 sq. km).
- geyser basin — an area containing a group of geysers.
- gingerbready — Resembling or characteristic of gingerbread.
- glacier lily — a dogtooth violet, Erythronium grandiflorum, of the lily family, native to western North America, having bright yellow flowers.
- glycerinated — to impregnate with glycerin.
- gradeability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
- granite city — a city in SW Illinois, near St. Louis, Missouri.
- 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.
- gravity cell — a cell containing two electrolytes that have different specific gravities.
- gravity feed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- gravity wave — Astronomy, Physics. gravitational wave.
- gregariously — fond of the company of others; sociable.
- grey wagtail — a greyish species of wagtail, Motacilla cinerea, found in temperate regions
- 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.
- gyromagnetic — of or relating to the magnetic properties of a rotating charged particle.
- hearteningly — In a heartening way; cheeringly.
- highly rated — generally considered to be of high quality
- hyperalgesia — an exaggerated sense of pain (opposed to hypalgesia).
- hyperalgesic — Of or pertaining to hyperalgesia.
- hypergraphia — (psychiatry) A behavioural condition characterised by an intense desire to write, associated with changes in the temporal lobes due to epilepsy or chemical changes.
- hypergravity — The presence of an apparently 'increased' gravitational field in an accelerating or rotating situation.
- hyperlogical — reasoning in accordance with the principles of logic, as a person or the mind: logical thinking.
- hypermagical — produced by or as if by magic: The change in the appearance of the room was magical.
- hypoallergic — Hypoallergenic.
- increasingly — growing larger or greater; enlarging; augmenting.
- interplaying — Present participle of interplay.
- irrefragably — In an irrefragable state or condition.
- irregularity — the quality or state of being irregular.
- ivy geranium — a trailing geranium, Pelargonium peltatum, of southern Africa, having a fleshy stem that becomes woody with age, glossy, ivy-shaped leaves, and clusters of flowers ranging from white to deep rose in color.
- jersey giant — one of a breed of large domestic chickens raised primarily for their meat, originally black but now with a white variety, developed in New Jersey by interbreeding Langshans and large Asiatic fowl.
- kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- laryngealize — to pronounce with accompanying constriction of the larynx.
- lawyer's wig — the shaggy ink-cap
- lexicography — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- liberatingly — In a liberating manner.
- managerially — pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society.
- meanderingly — In a meandering or winding manner.
- merry-making — Merry-making is the activities of people who are enjoying themselves together in a lively way, for example by eating, drinking, or dancing.
- myoneuralgia — myalgia.
- night prayer — the last of the seven canonical hours; compline
- panty girdle — women's control pants
- paroemiology — the study of proverbs
- perinatology — a field of medicine focusing on problems emerging during the perinatal period.