9-letter words containing a, e, g, y
- guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
- guideways — Plural form of guideway.
- gynaeceum — (among the ancient Greeks) the part of a dwelling used by women.
- gynaecoid — Characteristic of a woman.
- gypsyhead — a flanged drum on a winch, for winding in lines.
- gyroplane — autogiro.
- gyrovague — a vagrant monk who wandered from one monastery to another.
- healingly — in a healing manner, intended to heal
- hemingway — Ernest (Miller) 1899–1961, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and journalist: Nobel Prize 1954.
- heptalogy — (rare) # A set of seven works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as seven individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- hercogamy — (of flowers) the prevention of self-fertilization
- hydrangea — any shrub belonging to the genus Hydrangea, of the saxifrage family, several species of which are cultivated for their large, showy flower clusters of white, pink, or blue.
- hypallage — the reversal of the expected syntactic relation between two words, as in “her beauty's face” for “her face's beauty.”.
- hypergamy — the practice among Hindu women of marrying into a caste at least as high as their own.
- iatrogeny — a disease caused by medical intervention or treatment
- illegally — forbidden by law or statute.
- imre nagy — Imre [im-re] /ˈɪm rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1958, Hungarian political leader: premier 1953–55, 1956.
- jelly bag — a muslin bag used to strain off the juice from the fruit in making jelly (the preserve)
- keg party — a beer bust.
- key largo — one of the islands in the Florida Keys. 30 miles (48 km) long; 2 miles (3.2 km) wide.
- key stage — any one of four broad age-group divisions (5–7; 7–11; 11–14; 14–16) to which each level of the National Curriculum applies
- lang syne — long since; long ago.
- laryngeal — of, relating to, or located in the larynx.
- lawyering — a person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law or to advise or act for clients in other legal matters.
- legendary — of, relating to, or of the nature of a legend.
- legionary — of, relating to, or belonging to a legion.
- lightyear — Alternative spelling of light year.
- lych gate — a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used during funerals as a temporary shelter for the bier
- magic eye — a miniature cathode-ray tube in some radio receivers, on the screen of which a pattern is displayed in order to assist tuning
- magistery — an agency or substance, as in alchemy, to which faculties of healing, transformation, etc., are ascribed.
- malingery — The spirit or practices of a malingerer; malingering.
- mangabeys — Plural form of mangabey.
- mealy bug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- meaningly — what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import: the three meanings of a word.
- megabytes — Plural form of megabyte.
- 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.
- megapenny — /meg'*-pen"ee/ $10,000 (1 cent * 10^6). Used semi-humorously as a unit in comparing computer cost and performance figures.
- megaphyll — the relatively large type of leaf produced by ferns and seed plants
- meghalaya — a state in NE India. 8660 sq. mi. (22,429 sq. km). Capital: Shillong.
- metagnomy — (rare) divination.
- money-bag — a bag for money.
- moneybags — a bag for money.
- moyen age — Middle Ages.
- moygashel — an Irish linen
- myelogram — an x-ray photograph of the spinal cord, following administration of a radiopaque substance into the spinal subarachnoid space.
- naugahyde — a brand of synthetic leather made from vinyl-coated fabric
- onega bay — a bay in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, at the SW end of the White Sea. 100 miles (160 km) long.
- oxygenase — an oxidoreductase enzyme that catalyzes the introduction of molecular oxygen into an organic substance.
- oxygenate — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
- paedology — the study of the character, growth, and development of children