10-letter words containing g, a, y, i
- gypsophila — any plant belonging to the genus Gypsophila, of the pink family, native to Mediterranean regions, having small, panicled, pink or white flowers, as baby's breath.
- gyrational — Of, pertaining to, or caused by gyration.
- gyrostatic — the science that deals with the laws of rotating bodies.
- hackneying — Present participle of hackney.
- hagiocracy — government by a body of persons esteemed as holy.
- hagiolatry — the worship of saints.
- hairy frog — a W African frog, Astylosternus robustus, the males of which have glandular hairlike processes on the flanks
- hangingfly — a small, long-legged scorpionfly of the family Bittacidae, resembling the crane fly but having four wings rather than two and hanging from leaves or twigs by the front or middle legs while using the hind legs to seize prey, mostly small flies.
- hauntingly — remaining in the consciousness; not quickly forgotten: haunting music; haunting memories.
- hexagynian — (of a plant) having six pistils
- highwayman — (formerly) a holdup man, especially one on horseback, who robbed travelers along a public road.
- highwaymen — Plural form of highwayman.
- hippophagy — the practice of eating horseflesh.
- holidaying — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
- holy grail — grail (def 1).
- hy antigen — an antigen encoded by a gene on the Y (male) chromosome, active in the development of male structures.
- hygiaphone — a glass screen through which an employee may speak to members of the public, eg at a ticket office
- hygienical — conducive to good health; healthful; sanitary.
- hypalgesia — decreased sensitivity to pain (opposed to hyperalgesia).
- hyperalgia — an exaggerated sense of pain (opposed to hypalgesia).
- hypergiant — (star) A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a supergiant.
- hypnagogia — (medicine) A condition characterized by dreamlike auditory, visual, or tactile sensations when half-awake.
- hypnagogic — of or relating to drowsiness.
- hypogeusia — a disease characterized by a decreased ability to taste and, sometimes, to smell: associated with a zinc deficiency
- ideography — the use of ideograms.
- idiography — The study of individuals.
- ignorantly — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
- illegality — illegal condition or quality; unlawfulness.
- imaginably — capable of being imagined or conceived.
- immigrancy — the state or condition of being an immigrant or a person who comes to a country in order to settle there
- inarguably — not arguable: Her conclusion is so obvious as to be inarguable.
- indagatory — investigatory
- indignancy — Indignation.
- inelegancy — inelegance.
- intangibly — not tangible; incapable of being perceived by the sense of touch, as incorporeal or immaterial things; impalpable.
- integrally — of, relating to, or belonging as a part of the whole; constituent or component: integral parts.
- ivy league — a group of colleges and universities in the northeastern U.S., consisting of Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brown, having a reputation for high scholastic achievement and social prestige.
- jaywalking — to cross a street at a place other than a regular crossing or in a heedless manner, as diagonally or against a traffic light.
- karyologic — of or relating to karyology
- kerygmatic — the preaching of the gospel of Christ, especially in the manner of the early church.
- krita yuga — Satya Yuga.
- ladyfinger — a small, finger-shaped sponge cake.
- laryngitic — Pertaining to or suffering from laryngitis.
- laryngitis — inflammation of the larynx, often with accompanying sore throat, hoarseness or loss of voice, and dry cough.
- laughingly — With amused ridicule or ludicrous inappropriateness.
- lay figure — a jointed model of the human body, usually of wood, from which artists work in the absence of a living model.
- legitimacy — the state or quality of being legitimate.
- lexigraphy — (uncountable) The representation of words in writing.
- light year — Astronomy. the distance traversed by light in one mean solar year, about 5.88 trillion mi. (9.46 trillion km): used as a unit in measuring stellar distances. Abbreviation: lt-yr.
- light-year — Astronomy. the distance traversed by light in one mean solar year, about 5.88 trillion mi. (9.46 trillion km): used as a unit in measuring stellar distances. Abbreviation: lt-yr.