9-letter words containing g, a, y, o
- gyrovague — a vagrant monk who wandered from one monastery to another.
- hagiology — the branch of literature dealing with the lives and legends of the saints.
- haplology — the omission of one of two similar adjacent syllables or sounds in a word, as in substituting morphonemic for morphophonemic or in the pronunciation [prob-lee] /ˈprɒb li/ (Show IPA) for probably.
- heptalogy — (rare) # A set of seven works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as seven individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- hercogamy — (of flowers) the prevention of self-fertilization
- hooraying — Present participle of hooray.
- hygrogram — the record made by a hygrograph.
- hygrostat — an instrument for measuring and controlling humidity.
- hynagogic — Misspelling of hypnagogic.
- iatrogeny — a disease caused by medical intervention or treatment
- iatrology — Medical science.
- iron gray — a medium shade of gray, like that of freshly broken iron.
- iron-gray — a medium shade of gray, like that of freshly broken iron.
- karyogamy — the fusion of the nuclei of cells, as in fertilization.
- karyogram — (genetics) A graphical representation of a karyotype.
- karyology — the study of the structure and function of cell nuclei.
- key largo — one of the islands in the Florida Keys. 30 miles (48 km) long; 2 miles (3.2 km) wide.
- koshigaya — a city in central Honshu, Japan, a Tokyo suburb.
- kymograph — an instrument for measuring and graphically recording variations in fluid pressure, as those of the human pulse.
- legionary — of, relating to, or belonging to a legion.
- logically — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
- logomachy — a dispute about or concerning words.
- long play — a long-playing phonograph record.
- macrology — Long and tedious talk without much substance; superfluity of words.
- maha yoga — a form of yoga incorporating elements of the other major forms
- mammalogy — the science dealing with mammals.
- mammology — Alternative form of mammalogy.
- manyogana — An ancient/early Japanese syllabary in which Chinese characters represented sounds instead of their regular meaning as they again do today in the form of kanji; it was the predecessor of hiragana and katakana, present Japanese phonetic alphabets; used in the Manyosh\u016b, a poetic anthology.
- mariology — the body of belief, doctrine, and opinion concerning the Virgin Mary.
- maryology — Mariology.
- mastology — Mammalogy.
- metagnomy — (rare) divination.
- migratory — migrating.
- moaningly — With a moaning sound.
- money-bag — a bag for money.
- moneybags — a bag for money.
- monophagy — The feeding on a single type of food (e.g., a single plant species).
- montmagny — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, on the St. Lawrence.
- moyen age — Middle Ages.
- moygashel — an Irish linen
- mycophagy — the eating of mushrooms
- myelogram — an x-ray photograph of the spinal cord, following administration of a radiopaque substance into the spinal subarachnoid space.
- myographs — Plural form of myograph.
- mystagogy — someone who instructs others before initiation into religious mysteries or before participation in the sacraments.
- narcology — The study of drug abuse.
- nonpaying — Not paying.
- 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.
- onega bay — a bay in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, at the SW end of the White Sea. 100 miles (160 km) long.
- originary — (rare) Of, pertaining to or causing the origin of something.