9-letter words containing a, y, r, s
- gasometry — the measurement of gases.
- go astray — person: deviate from correct or good way
- gossamery — a fine, filmy cobweb seen on grass or bushes or floating in the air in calm weather, especially in autumn.
- grannyish — typical of or suitable for an elderly woman; old-fashioned
- graybacks — Plural form of grayback.
- graylings — Plural form of grayling.
- grayscale — a scale of achromatic colors having several, usually ten, equal gradations ranging from white to black, used in television and photography.
- graystone — (uncountable) A type of gray, volcanic rock, typically containing feldspar and iron.
- greenways — Plural form of greenway.
- grey seal — a greyish species of earless seal, Halichoerus grypus
- greyscale — Alternative spelling of grayscale.
- gustatory — of or relating to taste or tasting.
- gyrations — Plural form of gyration.
- hairspray — a liquid in an aerosol or other spray container, for holding the hair in place.
- hairstyle — a style of cutting, arranging, or combing the hair; hairdo; coiffure.
- hamadryas — A large baboon, Papio hamadryas, from northern Africa and Arabia, that was sacred in ancient Egypt.
- hansberry — Lorraine, 1930–65, U.S. playwright.
- haruspicy — divination by a haruspex.
- haymakers — Plural form of haymaker.
- holy wars — [Usenet, but may predate it] flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularised the terms big-endian and little-endian was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace". Other perennial Holy Wars have included Emacs vs. vi, my personal computer vs. everyone else's personal computer, ITS vs. Unix, Unix vs. VMS, BSD Unix vs. USG Unix, C vs. Pascal, C vs. Fortran, etc., ad nauseam. The characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal technical disputes is that in a holy wars most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. See also theology.
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
- hydracids — Plural form of hydracid.
- hydranths — Plural form of hydranth.
- hydrastis — goldenseal (def 2).
- hydraulus — a pipe organ of ancient Greece and Rome using water pressure to maintain the air supply.
- hydrocast — a process in which water is collected at various depths in a device with bottles clamped together, providing data on differing water characteristics.
- hydrolase — an enzyme that catalyzes hydrolysis.
- hydrosoma — hydrosome.
- hydrostat — an electrical device for detecting the presence of water, as from overflow or leakage.
- hygrostat — an instrument for measuring and controlling humidity.
- hyperbase — (database) An experimental active multi-user database for hypertext systems from the University of Aalborg, written in C++. It is built on the client-server model enabling distributed, concurrent, and shared access from workstations in a local area network. See also EHTS.
- hypospray — (science fiction) A kind of jet injector.
- idiocrasy — idiosyncrasy.
- insectary — a laboratory for the study of live insects, their life histories, effects on plants, reaction to insecticides, etc.
- insularly — of or relating to an island or islands: insular possessions.
- irascibly — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- janissary — (often initial capital letter) a member of an elite military unit of the Turkish army organized in the 14th century and abolished in 1826 after it revolted against the Sultan.
- jerseyman — a native or inhabitant of the island of Jersey.
- junkyards — Plural form of junkyard.
- karyosome — Also called chromocenter. any of several masses of chromatin in the reticulum of a cell nucleus.
- key scarf — any of various scarf joints in which the overlapping parts are keyed together.
- keyboards — Plural form of keyboard.
- keyframes — Plural form of keyframe.
- keyphrase — (cryptography) A phrase used in encryption in the style of a keyword.
- keystream — (cryptography) A stream of random or pseudorandom characters that are combined with the plaintext to produce a ciphertext.
- krupskaya — Nadezhda Konstantinovna [nuh-dye-zhduh kuh n-stuhn-tyee-nuh v-nuh] /nʌˈdyɛ ʒdə kən stʌnˈtyi nəv nə/ (Show IPA), 1869–1939, Russian social worker and wife of V.I. Lenin.
- kshatriya — a member of the Hindu royal and warrior class above the Vaisyas and below the Brahmans.
- labor spy — an employee who is used by management to spy on union activities.
- ladybirds — Plural form of ladybird.