9-letter words containing c, o, y, g
- dizygotic — developed from two fertilized ova, as fraternal twins.
- echoingly — In an echoing way.
- engyscope — (in the 17th and 18th centuries) a microscope
- euchology — a euchologion
- gaycation — a holiday specifically designed for the gay market
- genotypic — the genetic makeup of an organism or group of organisms with reference to a single trait, set of traits, or an entire complex of traits.
- geophytic — Relating to geophytes.
- glycation — (biochemistry) non-enzymatic reaction of a sugar and an amine group of a protein to form a glycoprotein.
- glycerole — Dated form of glycerol.
- glycocoll — glycine
- glycolate — a salt or ester of glycolic acid.
- glycoside — any of the class of compounds that yield a sugar and an aglycon upon hydrolysis.
- glycosyls — Plural form of glycosyl.
- good-copy — an imitation, reproduction, or transcript of an original: a copy of a famous painting.
- gray code — (hardware) A binary sequence with the property that only one bit changes between any two consecutive elements (the two codes have a Hamming distance of one). The Gray code originated when digital logic circuits were built from vacuum tubes and electromechanical relays. Counters generated tremendous power demands and noise spikes when many bits changed at once. E.g. when incrementing a register containing 11111111, the back-EMF from the relays' collapsing magnetic fields required copious noise suppression. Using Gray code counters, any increment or decrement changed only one bit, regardless of the size of the number. Gray code can also be used to convert the angular position of a disk to digital form. A radial line of sensors reads the code off the surface of the disk and if the disk is half-way between two positions each sensor might read its bit from both positions at once but since only one bit differs between the two, the value read is guaranteed to be one of the two valid values rather than some third (invalid) combination (a glitch). One possible algorithm for generating a Gray code sequence is to toggle the lowest numbered bit that results in a new code each time. Here is a four bit Gray code sequence generated in this way: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 The codes were patented in 1953 by Frank Gray, a Bell Labs researcher.
- grouchily — In a grouchy manner.
- gynaecoid — Characteristic of a woman.
- gynobasic — an elevation of the receptacle of a flower, bearing the gynoecium.
- gynocracy — gynarchy.
- gynoecium — the pistil or pistils of a flower; the female parts.
- gyrectomy — excision of a cerebral gyrus.
- gyrfalcon — a large falcon, Falco rusticolus, of arctic and subarctic regions, having white, gray, or blackish color phases: now greatly reduced in number.
- gyromancy — a method of prediction or prophecy in which a person moves round and round in a circle and the place at which they fall to the ground is said to be highly significant
- gyroscope — an apparatus consisting of a rotating wheel so mounted that its axis can turn freely in certain or all directions, and capable of maintaining the same absolute direction in space in spite of movements of the mountings and surrounding parts: used to maintain equilibrium, determine direction, etc.
- hercogamy — (of flowers) the prevention of self-fertilization
- hologynic — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in females (opposed to holandric).
- hynagogic — Misspelling of hypnagogic.
- hypogenic — formed beneath the earth's surface, as granite (opposed to epigene).
- ichnology — the branch of paleontology concerned with the study of fossilized tracks, trails, burrows, borings, or other trace fossils as evidence of the occurrence or behavior of the organisms that produced them.
- iconology — the historical analysis and interpretive study of symbols or images and their contextual significance; iconography.
- jockeying — a person who rides horses professionally in races.
- logically — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
- logomachy — a dispute about or concerning words.
- lysogenic — harboring a temperate virus as a prophage or plasmid.
- macrology — Long and tedious talk without much substance; superfluity of words.
- micrology — excessive attention to petty details or distinctions.
- misogynic — reflecting or exhibiting hatred, dislike, mistrust, or mistreatment of women.
- mockingly — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- mummychog — Alternative form of mummichog.
- muscology — the scientific study of mosses
- mycologic — Of, or relating to mycology or to the fungi; mycological.
- mycophagy — the eating of mushrooms
- narcology — The study of drug abuse.
- necrology — a list of persons who have died within a certain time.
- occupying — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- ochlagogy — (rare) Manipulation of a mob by use of inflammatory rhetoric, casting opprobrium, and by appeal to the lowest common denominator generally; extreme and wholly unscrupulous demagogy; the practice of an ochlagogue.
- oligarchy — a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
- outcrying — Present participle of outcry.
- phagocyte — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.
- phycology — the branch of botany dealing with algae.