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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.
  • galsworthyJohn, 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.
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