9-letter words containing l, g, y, c
- glyceryls — Plural form of glyceryl.
- 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.
- gracility — The state of being gracefully slender.
- grayscale — a scale of achromatic colors having several, usually ten, equal gradations ranging from white to black, used in television and photography.
- greyscale — Alternative spelling of grayscale.
- grouchily — In a grouchy manner.
- gym class — physical education lesson
- gyrfalcon — a large falcon, Falco rusticolus, of arctic and subarctic regions, having white, gray, or blackish color phases: now greatly reduced in number.
- hologynic — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in females (opposed to holandric).
- ichnology — the branch of paleontology concerned with the study of fossilized tracks, trails, burrows, borings, or other trace fossils as evidence of the occurrence or behavior of the organisms that produced them.
- iconology — the historical analysis and interpretive study of symbols or images and their contextual significance; iconography.
- logically — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
- logomachy — a dispute about or concerning words.
- lucky bag — a bag of mixed sweets, intended for children; the bag is transparent, so that you do not know exactly what it contains
- lych gate — a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used during funerals as a temporary shelter for the bier
- lynchburg — a city in central Virginia.
- lynchings — Plural form of lynching.
- lysogenic — harboring a temperate virus as a prophage or plasmid.
- macrology — Long and tedious talk without much substance; superfluity of words.
- magically — produced by or as if by magic: The change in the appearance of the room was magical.
- megacycle — Electricity. a unit of frequency, equal to one million cycles per second; megahertz. The term megahertz is now preferred in technical use. Abbreviation: Mc, mc.
- micrology — excessive attention to petty details or distinctions.
- mincingly — (of the gait, speech, behavior, etc.) affectedly dainty, nice, or elegant.
- mockingly — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- muscology — the scientific study of mosses
- mycologic — Of, or relating to mycology or to the fungi; mycological.
- narcology — The study of drug abuse.
- necrology — a list of persons who have died within a certain time.
- nyctalgia — night pain that occurs in the sleep.
- ochlagogy — (rare) Manipulation of a mob by use of inflammatory rhetoric, casting opprobrium, and by appeal to the lowest common denominator generally; extreme and wholly unscrupulous demagogy; the practice of an ochlagogue.
- oligarchy — a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
- phycology — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
- polygamic — polygamous.
- polygenic — one of a group of nonallelic genes that together control a quantitative characteristic in an organism.
- rackingly — in a racking manner
- recycling — to treat or process (used or waste materials) so as to make suitable for reuse: recycling paper to save trees.
- rockingly — in a rocking manner
- sarcology — the branch of anatomy dealing with the soft or fleshy body parts.
- scallywag — scalawag.
- scaringly — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- scatology — the study of or preoccupation with excrement or obscenity.
- scraggily — lean or thin; scrawny.
- sociology — the science or study of the origin, development, organization, and functioning of human society; the science of the fundamental laws of social relations, institutions, etc.
- sylacauga — a city in central Alabama.
- uncloying — not cloying or satiating
- upcycling — to process (used goods or waste material) so as to produce something that is often better than the original: I upcycled a stained tablecloth into curtains.