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10-letter words containing a, g, r, y

  • great year — Magnus Annus.
  • grenz rays — X-rays of long wavelength produced in a device when electrons are accelerated through 25 kilovolts or less
  • grey alder — a variety of alder (Alnus incana) with grey bark, common in temperate areas of the northern hemisphere
  • grey friar — a Franciscan friar
  • grey nomad — any elderly retired person who spends time travelling around the country in a mobile home
  • grey skate — a species of skate, Dipturus batis
  • grey water — household waste water that can be reused for some purposes without purification, e.g. bath water, which can be used to water plants
  • grey whale — a large N Pacific whalebone whale, Eschrichtius glaucus, that is grey or black with white spots and patches: family Eschrichtidae
  • grey-scale — (graphics)   (US "gray-scale") 1. Composed of (discrete) shades of grey. If the pixels of a grey-scale image have N bits, they may take values from zero, representing black up to 2^N-1, representing white with intermediate values representing increasingly light shades of grey. If N=1 the image is not called grey-scale but could be called monochrome. 2. A range of acurately known shades of grey printed out for use in calibrating those shades on a display or printer.
  • grey-state — (of a fabric or material) not yet dyed
  • greyheaded — having grey hair
  • groceryman — a grocer.
  • guard duty — a military assignment involving watching over or protecting a person or place or supervising prisoners.
  • gutturally — In a harsh or throaty manner.
  • guy friday — a man 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.
  • gynandrism — hermaphroditism.
  • gynandrous — having stamens and pistils united in a column, as in orchids.
  • gynarchies — Plural form of gynarchy.
  • gynecocrat — gynarchy.
  • gyneocracy — Alternative form of gynecocracy.
  • gyneolatry — The adoration or worship of women.
  • gyniatrics — the branch of medicine dealing with the treatment of women's diseases
  • gyniolatry — an extreme form of love and attachment to women
  • gynocratic — Pertaining to government by women.
  • gyrational — Of, pertaining to, or caused by gyration.
  • gyrfalcons — Plural form of gyrfalcon.
  • gyrostatic — the science that deals with the laws of rotating bodies.
  • hagiocracy — government by a body of persons esteemed as holy.
  • hagiolatry — the worship of saints.
  • hairy frog — a W African frog, Astylosternus robustus, the males of which have glandular hairlike processes on the flanks
  • heterogamy — heterogamous state.
  • holography — the process or technique of making holograms.
  • holy grail — grail (def 1).
  • holy grass — any of several fragrant grasses of the genus Hierochloë, especially H. odorata, the vanilla grass.
  • homography — The state or quality of being spelt homographically; the state or quality of existing as homographs.
  • horography — the art of constructing time-keeping instruments such as watches and clocks
  • hyalograph — an instrument used in hyalography.
  • hydragogue — causing the discharge of watery fluid, as from the bowels.
  • hydrangeas — Plural form of hydrangea.
  • hydrograph — a graph of the water level or rate of flow of a body of water as a function of time, showing the seasonal change.
  • hyetograph — a map or chart showing the average rainfall for the localities represented.
  • hygrochasy — the opening of a fruit or flower caused by water or moisture
  • hygrograph — a self-recording hygrometer.
  • hyperalgia — an exaggerated sense of pain (opposed to hypalgesia).
  • hypergiant — (star) A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a supergiant.
  • hypergraph — (mathematics) A generalization of a graph, in which edges can connect any number of vertices.
  • hypnograph — an instrument that measures activities of the human body during sleep.
  • ideography — the use of ideograms.
  • idiography — The study of individuals.
  • ignorantly — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
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