11-letter words containing g, a, y, o
- polymyalgia — a chronic inflammatory disease, common among older persons, characterized by recurrent episodes of muscle pain and stiffness, sometimes leading to cardiovascular complications or blindness.
- polyphagous — Pathology. excessive desire to eat.
- pony league — a baseball league similar to a Little League and having teams whose players are from 13 to 14 years of age.
- pornography — sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal.
- poyang lake — a lake in E China, in N Jiangxi province, connected by canal with the Yangtze River: the second largest lake in China. Area (at its greatest): 2780 sq km (1073 sq miles)
- primatology — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
- prodigality — the quality or fact of being prodigal; wasteful extravagance in spending.
- propagatory — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- protogalaxy — the large concentration of gas and dust from which a galaxy is formed.
- psychagogue — a necromancer
- psychograph — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
- ptyalagogic — saliva-inducing
- ptyalagogue — an item that causes the flow of saliva
- pyelography — the science or technique of making photographs of the kidneys, renal pelves, and ureters by means of x-rays, after the injection of an opaque solution or of a radiopaque dye.
- pyroballogy — the study of artillery
- pyrogallate — a salt or ether of pyrogallol.
- pythagorean — of or relating to Pythagoras, to his school, or to his doctrines.
- quangocracy — Rule by quangos or similar unelected bodies. (from 20th c.).
- radiography — the production of radiographs.
- religionary — pertaining to religion
- reprography — the reproduction and duplication of documents, written materials, drawings, designs, etc., by any process making use of light rays or photographic means, including offset printing, microfilming, photography, office duplicating, and the like.
- rotary wing — an airfoil that rotates about an approximately vertical axis, as that supporting a helicopter or autogiro in flight.
- royal burgh — (in Scotland) a burgh that was established by a royal charter granted directly by the sovereign
- royal gorge — a gorge of the Arkansas River in S central Colorado. 10 miles (16 km) long; up to 1000 feet (305 meters) deep.
- royal icing — a hard white icing made from egg whites and icing sugar, used for coating and decorating cakes, esp fruit cakes
- scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- semasiology — semantics, especially the study of semantic change.
- shabbas goy — a gentile who performs tasks for Jews in the home or synagogue on the Sabbath or on a holy day that are forbidden Jews on such occasions, as turning on the lights or heat.
- sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
- sigmoidally — in the form of a sigmoid
- siphonogamy — a mode of pollination in which pollen tubes develop to facilitate the passage of male cells to eggs
- snobography — an account or description of snobs
- sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
- soothsaying — the practice or art of foretelling events.
- sphagnology — the study of sphagna
- sphygmogram — a tracing or diagram produced by a sphygmograph.
- spirography — the study of breathing using a spirograph
- steatopygia — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
- steatopygic — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
- stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stomatology — the science dealing with the mouth and its diseases.
- stylography — the art of writing, tracing, drawing, etc., with a style.
- subcategory — a subordinate category or a division of a category.
- syllabogram — a written symbol representing a single syllable
- syngnathous — (of fish) having a tubular snout, e.g. pipefish, seahorse
- thanatology — the study of death and its surrounding circumstances, as in forensic medicine.
- through way — a way that traffic or vehicles can pass through
- to give way — If an object that is supporting something gives way, it breaks or collapses, so that it can no longer support that thing.
- tragicomedy — a dramatic or other literary composition combining elements of both tragedy and comedy.
- typographer — a person skilled or engaged in typography.