8-letter words containing c, y, g
- elegancy — Alternative form of elegance.
- exigency — An urgent need or demand.
- fancying — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
- fugacity — fleeting; transitory: a sensational story with but a fugacious claim on the public's attention.
- fulgency — the quality of being fulgent; resplendence; brightness
- garlicky — a hardy plant, Allium sativum, of the amaryllis family whose strongly, pungent bulb is used in cookery and medicine.
- gauchely — In a gauche manner.
- geocarpy — the ripening of fruits below ground, as occurs in the peanut
- geomancy — divination by geographic features or by figures or lines.
- gimmicky — an ingenious or novel device, scheme, or stratagem, especially one designed to attract attention or increase appeal.
- givenchy — Hubert de [y-ber duh] /üˈbɛr də/ (Show IPA), born 1927, French fashion designer.
- glycemia — the presence of glucose in the blood.
- glycemic — the presence of glucose in the blood.
- glyceria — any aquatic grass species in the genus Glyceria
- glyceric — of or derived from glycerol.
- glycerin — glycerol.
- glycerol — a colorless, odorless, syrupy, sweet liquid, C 3 H 8 O 3 , usually obtained by the saponification of natural fats and oils: used for sweetening and preserving food, in the manufacture of cosmetics, perfumes, inks, and certain glues and cements, as a solvent and automobile antifreeze, and in medicine in suppositories and skin emollients.
- glyceryl — containing the glyceryl group.
- glycogen — a white, tasteless polysaccharide, (C 6 H 10 O 5) n , molecularly similar to starch, constituting the principal carbohydrate storage material in animals and occurring chiefly in the liver, in muscle, and in fungi and yeasts.
- glycolic — pertaining to or derived from glycol.
- glyconic — (of a line of verse) consisting of three trochees and one dactyl
- glycosyl — (biochemistry) Any functional group derived from a sugar (especially from a monosaccharide) by removal of the hemiacetal hydroxy group.
- glyphics — Plural form of glyphic.
- glyptics — the act or process of producing glyptic ornaments.
- gonocyte — an oocyte or spermatocyte
- gramercy — Obsolete. thanks.
- grayback — any of various marine and aquatic animals that are dark gray above and light-colored or white below, as the gray whale, the alewife, certain whitefish, and certain sandpipers.
- greyback — grayback.
- gymnical — Alternative form of gymnic.
- gynaeco- — relating to women; female
- gynarchy — government by women.
- gynecium — gynoecium.
- gynecoid — of or like a woman.
- gynoecia — Plural form of gynoecium.
- hygienic — conducive to good health; healthful; sanitary.
- lancegay — a lance used in medieval times
- lychgate — A roofed gateway to a churchyard, formerly used during burials for sheltering a coffin until the clergyman’s arrival.
- lycurgus — flourished 9th century b.c, Spartan lawgiver.
- lynching — to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.
- lysergic — Used in designation of lysergic acid, lysergic acid diethylamide.
- macgyver — Alternative spelling of MacGyver.
- mcguffey — William Holmes, 1800–73, U.S. educator: editor of the Eclectic Readers, a series of school readers.
- megacity — a city having a population of one million or more.
- micrurgy — the manipulation and examination of single cells under a microscope
- mycology — the branch of biology dealing with fungi.
- myogenic — originating in muscle, as an impulse or sensation.
- myologic — (medicine) Of or pertaining to the study of muscles or muscle tissue.
- nugacity — triviality; insignificance.
- octalogy — (rare) # A set of eight works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as eight individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- oecology — the branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment, including other organisms.