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Words starting with glyco

6 letter words starting with glyco

  • glyco- — indicating sugar
  • glycol — Also called ethylene glycol, ethylene alcohol. a colorless, sweet liquid, C 2 H 6 O 2 , used chiefly as an automobile antifreeze and as a solvent.

7 letter words starting with glyco

  • glycone — (carbohydrate) The sugar residue of a glycoside.
  • glycose — any of various monosaccharides

8 letter words starting with glyco

  • 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.
  • glycogen storage disease — any of several inherited disorders of glycogen metabolism that result in excess accumulation of glycogen in various organs of the body.

9 letter words starting with glyco

  • glycocoll — glycine
  • glycolate — a salt or ester of glycolic acid.
  • glycoside — any of the class of compounds that yield a sugar and an aglycon upon hydrolysis.
  • glycosyls — Plural form of glycosyl.

10 letter words starting with glyco

  • glycogenic — of or relating to glycogen.
  • glycolipid — any of a class of lipids, comprising the cerebrosides and gangliosides, that upon hydrolysis yield galactose or a similar sugar, a fatty acid, and sphingosine or dihydrosphingosine.
  • glycolysis — the catabolism of carbohydrates, as glucose and glycogen, by enzymes, with the release of energy and the production of lactic or pyruvic acid.
  • glycolytic — of, relating to, or causing glycolysis.
  • glycophyte — any plant that will only grow healthily in soils with a low content of sodium salts

11 letter words starting with glyco

  • glycogenous — of or relating to the formation of sugar in the liver.
  • glycolipids — Plural form of glycolipid.
  • glycosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a glycoside.
  • glycosylate — (organic chemistry) To react with a sugar to form a glycoside (especially a glycoprotein).

12 letter words starting with glyco

  • 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.

13 letter words starting with glyco

  • glycopeptides — Plural form of glycopeptide.
  • glycoproteins — Plural form of glycoprotein.
  • glycosylation — (chemistry, biochemistry) The reaction of a saccharide with a hydroxy or amino functional group to form a glycoside; especially the reaction with a protein or lipid to form a glycoprotein or glycolipid.

14 letter words starting with glyco

  • glycogenolysis — (biochemistry) The production of glucose-1-phosphate by splitting a glucose monomer from glycogen using inorganic phosphate.
  • glycogenolytic — Of, pertaining to, or capable of glycogenolysis, the catabolism of glycogen.
  • glycosidically — In a glycosidic manner; by means of a glycoside.

15 letter words starting with glyco

16 letter words starting with glyco

  • glycosylceramide — (organic chemistry) Any glycosyl derivative of a ceramide.

17 letter words starting with glyco

  • glycosaminoglycan — any of a class of polysaccharides derived from hexosamine that form mucins when complexed with proteins: formerly called mucopolysaccharide.
  • glycosphingolipid — (biochemistry) a lipid that contains at least one monosaccharide unit and either a sphingoid or a ceramide.

18 letter words starting with glyco

On this page, we collect all words starting with GLYCO. To make easier to find the right word we have divided all 46 words to groups according to their length. So you should go to appropriate page if can’t find the word that beginning with GLYCO. that you are searching. Also you can use this page in Scrabble.

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