11-letter words containing a, n, g, r, y
- ethnography — The scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures.
- fairy green — a medium yellow-green color.
- falteringly — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
- flying mare — Wrestling. a method of attack in which a wrestler grasps the wrist of the opponent, turns in the opposite direction, and throws the opponent over the shoulder and down.
- fragmentary — consisting of or reduced to fragments; broken; disconnected; incomplete: fragmentary evidence; fragmentary remains.
- garden city — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- gastrodynia — (pathology) gastralgia (stomach pain).
- gastromancy — a form of divination by interpreting words and sounds seeming to come from the stomach
- gay gordons — an energetic old-time dance
- generically — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
- gerrymander — U.S. Politics. the dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength of the other party into as few districts as possible.
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
- glycerinate — to impregnate with glycerin.
- graminology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of grasses
- grand duchy — a territory ruled by a grand duke or grand duchess.
- grandiosely — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandiosity — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- granny bond — (in Britain) an informal name for retirement issue certificate, an index-linked savings certificate, originally available only to people over retirement age
- granny farm — a home where old people are cared for
- granny flat — a self-contained living area within a single-family home, as for an aging parent.
- granny knot — a reef knot with the ends crossed the wrong way, making it liable to slip or jam
- granularity — of the nature of granules; grainy.
- granulocyte — a circulating white blood cell having prominent granules in the cytoplasm and a nucleus of two or more lobes.
- gravy train — a position in which a person or group receives excessive and unjustified money or advantages with little or no effort: The top executives were on the gravy train with their huge bonuses.
- green party — a liberal political party especially in Germany focusing on environmental issues.
- grimacingly — With a grimace.
- guarantying — a warrant, pledge, or formal assurance given as security that another's debt or obligation will be fulfilled.
- gymnasiarch — (in ancient Greece) a magistrate who superintended the gymnasia and public games in certain cities.
- gymnorhinal — (of a bird) having the nostrils exposed, not covered by feathers.
- gynecocracy — gynarchy.
- hairstyling — a person who designs and arranges hair styles.
- harassingly — in a harassing manner
- harrowingly — extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous: a harrowing experience.
- hurry along — rush, go quickly
- hybernating — Present participle of hybernate.
- hydrogenase — an enzyme in certain microorganisms that speeds up the reversible oxidation of hydrogen
- hydrogenate — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
- hymnography — the craft of hymn composition
- ichnography — the art of drawing a ground plan or layout of a building.
- iconography — symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
- imaginarily — existing only in the imagination or fancy; not real; fancied: an imaginary illness; the imaginary animals in the stories of Dr. Seuss.
- impregnably — In an impregnable manner; in a manner to defy attack.
- infrangibly — In an infrangible manner.
- inlay graft — a graft in which the scion is matched into a place in the stock from which a piece of corresponding bark has been removed.
- integrality — of, relating to, or belonging as a part of the whole; constituent or component: integral parts.
- interagency — made up of, involving, or representing two or more government agencies: interagency cooperation.
- jabberingly — in a jabbering manner
- karyotyping — the analysis of chromosomes.
- keyboarding — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.