10-letter words containing a, g, r, y
- coprophagy — feeding on dung, as certain beetles.
- craniology — the branch of science concerned with the shape and size of the human skull, esp with reference to variations between different races
- crashingly — extremely; exceedingly
- crazy golf — a putting game in which the ball has to be played via various obstacles
- creakingly — With a creaking sound.
- cryptogams — Plural form of cryptogam.
- cryptogamy — the state of being a cryptogam
- cryptogram — a secret symbol
- cyclograph — Arcograph.
- cystograms — Plural form of cystogram.
- daughterly — of, like, or proper to a daughter
- degeneracy — If you refer to the behaviour of a group of people as degeneracy, you mean that you think it is shocking, immoral, or disgusting.
- degradedly — in a degraded fashion
- degree day — a day on which university degrees are conferred
- degree-day — one degree of departure, on a single day, of the daily mean temperature from a given standard temperature. Abbreviation: dd.
- delayering — Delayering is the process of simplifying the administrative structure of a large organization in order to make it more efficient.
- delegatory — of or relating to the delegation or assignment of authority, power, or responsibility.
- demography — Demography is the study of the changes in numbers of births, deaths, marriages, and cases of disease in a community over a period of time.
- derogatory — If you make a derogatory remark or comment about someone or something, you express your low opinion of them.
- dish gravy — meat juices, as from a roast, served as a gravy without seasoning or thickening.
- draggingly — In a way that drags; with a dragging motion.
- dramaturgy — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
- drawlingly — Speaking with a drawl.
- dreadingly — With dread.
- dreamingly — In a dreamy manner.
- dysgraphia — inability to write, caused by cerebral lesion.
- dysgraphic — a person who suffers from dysgraphia
- echography — a device that records oceanic depths by means of sonic waves.
- energy bar — high-calorie snack food
- energy gap — the difference of energy between the bottom of the conduction band and the top of the valence band of the electrons in a crystalline solid. For values below about 2eV the substance is considered to be a semiconductor whilst for higher values it is considered to be an insulator
- enlargedly — in an enlarged manner
- ergativity — the state of being ergative
- ergatogyne — a wingless, worker-like ant with female characteristics
- fairy ring — any of numerous mushrooms of meadows and open woods, especially the well-known Marasmius oreades, that spread in rings originating from mycelial growth: formerly supposed to mark the paths laid by dancing fairies.
- flagrantly — shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: a flagrant error.
- fly agaric — a very poisonous common woodland mushroom, Amanita muscaria, having a glossy red or orange cap with white spots, formerly a fly poison.
- forgivably — In a forgivable way.
- fragrantly — having a pleasant scent or aroma; sweet-smelling; sweet-scented: a fragrant rose.
- frying pan — A frying pan is a flat metal pan with a long handle, in which you fry food.
- frying-pan — a shallow, long-handled pan in which food is fried.
- fumigatory — having the ability to fumigate; relating to fumigation
- gadzookery — the use or overuse of period-specific or archaic expressions, as in a historical novel: Without any gadzookery and its excessive use of “forsooth,” “prithee,” etc., her first historical novel conveys a superb sense of the period.
- gal friday — Older Use: Sometimes Offensive. a woman who acts as a general assistant in a business office or to an executive and has a wide variety of especially secretarial and clerical duties.
- galleryite — a spectator, as in a theater gallery or at a golf match.
- galsworthy — John, 1867–1933, English novelist and dramatist: Nobel Prize 1932.
- gameplayer — One who plays a game or games.
- gamilaraay — Kamilaroi.
- gamma rays — a photon of penetrating electromagnetic radiation (gamma radiation) emitted from an atomic nucleus.
- gargoylish — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a gargoyle.
- gargoylism — a congenital abnormality characterized chiefly by dwarfism, grotesque deformities of the head, trunk, and limbs, mental retardation, and enlargement of the liver and spleen.