8-letter words containing a, g, r, y
- laryngo- — indicating the larynx
- layerage — layering
- layering — a thickness of some material laid on or spread over a surface: a layer of soot on the window sill; two layers of paint.
- legatary — a legatee
- lethargy — the quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic, or indifferent and lazy; apathetic or sluggish inactivity.
- macgyver — Alternative spelling of MacGyver.
- managery — Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.
- marrying — to take in marriage: After dating for five years, I finally asked her to marry me.
- meagerly — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
- meagrely — In a meagre way; poorly; inadequately.
- myograph — an instrument for recording the contractions and relaxations of muscles.
- negatory — marked by negation; denying; negative.
- nugatory — of no real value; trifling; worthless.
- orangery — a warm place, as a greenhouse, in which orange trees are cultivated in cool climates.
- panegyry — a panegyric
- paraguay — a republic in central South America between Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina. 157,047 sq. mi. (406,750 sq. km). Capital: Asunción.
- paralogy — false reasoning
- partying — a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.: a cocktail party.
- paygrade — a level on a pay scale
- phrygana — another name for garigue, used esp in Greece
- phrygian — of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their language.
- plagiary — plagiarism.
- playgirl — a woman who pursues a life of pleasure without responsibility or attachments, especially one who is of comfortable means.
- playgoer — a person who attends the theater often or habitually.
- porogamy — the fertilization of a seed plant involving passage of the pollen tube into the ovule by the micropyle
- quagmiry — relating to a quagmire
- raggedly — clothed in tattered garments: a ragged old man.
- ragingly — angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination): a speech full of rage; incidents of road rage.
- rallying — the sport of driving in automobile rallies.
- rayleigh — John William Strutt [struht] /strʌt/ (Show IPA), 3rd Baron, 1842–1919, English physicist: Nobel prize 1904.
- readying — completely prepared or in fit condition for immediate action or use: troops ready for battle; Dinner is ready.
- reagency — the quality or condition of being a reagent
- regality — royalty, sovereignty, or kingship.
- relaying — re-lay.
- ridgeway — a road or track along a ridge, esp one of great antiquity
- rogatory — pertaining to asking or requesting: a rogatory commission.
- rubygate — an Italian political scandal in which Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was accused of paying for sex with a nightclub dancer and of abusing his office
- ryegrass — any of several European grasses of the genus Lolium, as L. perenne (perennial ryegrass) grown for forage in the U.S.
- savagery — an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition; barbarity.
- scraggly — irregular; uneven; jagged.
- spagyric — pertaining to or resembling alchemy; alchemic.
- staggery — tending to stagger
- stingray — any of the rays, especially of the family Dasyatidae, having a long, flexible tail armed near the base with a strong, serrated bony spine with which they can inflict painful wounds.
- straggly — straggling; rambling.
- strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
- straying — to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
- syngraft — a tissue or organ transplanted from one member of a species to another, genetically identical member of the species, as a kidney transplanted from one identical twin to the other.
- syngraph — a document signed by all parties
- tarrying — to remain or stay, as in a place; sojourn: He tarried in Baltimore on his way to Washington.
- tigrinya — a Semitic language spoken in northern Ethiopia.