9-letter words containing g, a, y, o
- cytophagy — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
- diabology — the study of the devil or devils
- dichogamy — the maturation of male and female parts of a flower at different times, preventing automatic self-pollination
- doggy bag — a small bag provided on request by a restaurant for a customer to carry home leftovers of a meal, ostensibly to feed a dog or other pet.
- dogmatory — dogmatic
- dragonfly — any of numerous stout-bodied, nonstinging insects of the order Odonata (suborder Anisoptera), the species of which prey on mosquitoes and other insects and are distinguished from the damselflies by having the wings outstretched rather than folded when at rest.
- dysgnosia — any intellectual impairment.
- easygoing — going easily, as a horse.
- endophagy — cannibalism within the same group or tribe
- ennealogy — A speech or treatise consisting of nine parts or chapters; any work in nine parts (compare trilogy (3-part), tetralogy (4-part), etc.).
- foamingly — in a foaming manner
- fogramity — a fogey or antiquated thing
- garbology — the study of the material discarded by a society to learn what it reveals about social or cultural patterns.
- gargoyled — (of a building) Having gargoyles carved into it.
- gargoyles — Plural form of gargoyle.
- garryowen — (rugby union) A high short punt onto or behind the defending team.
- gasometry — the measurement of gases.
- gay power — the organized political influence exerted by homosexuals as a group, especially to ensure equal rights in employment, housing, etc.
- gaycation — a holiday specifically designed for the gay market
- genealogy — a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc.
- geobotany — phytogeography.
- geography — the science dealing with the areal differentiation of the earth's surface, as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrelations over the world of such elements as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, population, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.
- glory-pea — either of two trailing plants, Clianthus formosus or C. puniceus, of Australia and New Zealand, having showy red flowers.
- glycation — (biochemistry) non-enzymatic reaction of a sugar and an amine group of a protein to form a glycoprotein.
- glycolate — a salt or ester of glycolic acid.
- go astray — person: deviate from correct or good way
- go steady — firmly placed or fixed; stable in position or equilibrium: a steady ladder.
- goadingly — So as to goad or incite.
- goatishly — In a goatish way.
- golomynka — an oily fish found only in Lake Baikal
- gonyaulax — any marine dinoflagellate of the genus Gonyaulax, sometimes occurring in great numbers and causing red tide.
- goody bag — A goody bag is a bag of little gifts, often given away by manufacturers in order to encourage people to try their products.
- goose bay — an air base in S central Labrador, in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the great circle route between New York and London: used as a fuel stop by some transatlantic airplanes.
- gossamery — a fine, filmy cobweb seen on grass or bushes or floating in the air in calm weather, especially in autumn.
- gradatory — (architecture) A series of steps from a cloister into a church.
- gray body — any body that emits radiation at each wavelength in a constant ratio less than unity to that emitted by a black body at the same temperature.
- 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.
- gray iron — pig iron or cast iron having much of its carbon in the form of graphite and exhibiting a gray fracture.
- gray mold — a disease of plants, characterized by a gray, furry coating on the decaying parts, caused by any of several fungi.
- gray wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus, having a usually grizzled, blackish, or whitish coat: formerly common in Eurasia and North America, some subspecies are now reduced in numbers or near extinction.
- grayhound — one of a breed of tall, slender, short-haired dogs, noted for its keen sight and swiftness.
- graystone — (uncountable) A type of gray, volcanic rock, typically containing feldspar and iron.
- gustatory — of or relating to taste or tasting.
- gynaecoid — Characteristic of a woman.
- gynobasic — an elevation of the receptacle of a flower, bearing the gynoecium.
- gynocracy — gynarchy.
- gyrations — Plural form of gyration.
- 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
- gyroplane — autogiro.