7-letter words containing g, a, y
- savigny — Friedrich Karl von (ˈfridrɪç ˈkɑl fɔn). 1779–1861, German legal scholar, who pioneered the historical approach to jurisprudence, emphasizing custom and precedent
- sayings — something said, especially a proverb or apothegm.
- scraggy — lean or thin; scrawny.
- signary — a set of symbols, such as an alphabet
- skagway — a town in SE Alaska, near the famous White and Chilkoot passes to the Klondike gold fields: railway terminus.
- slaying — A slaying is a murder.
- spangly — Spangly clothes are decorated with a lot of small shiny objects.
- stagery — theatrical effects or techniques, or the arrangement of a production on stage
- staying — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
- stygian — of or relating to the river Styx or to Hades.
- syngamy — union of gametes, as in fertilization or conjugation; sexual reproduction.
- syntagm — an element that enters into a syntagmatic relationship.
- syringa — mock orange (def 1).
- tag day — a day on which contributions to a fund are solicited, each contributor receiving a tag.
- tragedy — a lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster: stunned by the tragedy of so many deaths.
- trigamy — the state of having three wives or three husbands at one time.
- uruguay — a republic in SE South America. 72,172 sq. mi. (186,925 sq. km). Capital: Montevideo.
- vagally — in a manner that relates to the vagus nerve
- vaguely — not clearly or explicitly stated or expressed: vague promises.
- varying — to change or alter, as in form, appearance, character, or substance: to vary one's methods.
- voyager — one of a series of U.S. space probes that obtained scientific information while flying by the planets Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus.
- waggery — the action, spirit, or language of a wag; roguish or droll humor: the waggery of Shakespeare's clowns.
- waygone — travel-weary
- weygand — Maxime [mak-seem] /makˈsim/ (Show IPA), 1867–1965, French general.
- wysiayg — What You See Is All You Get
- yacking — to talk, especially uninterruptedly and idly; gab; chatter: They've been yakking on the phone for over an hour.
- yaffing — to bark; yelp.
- yafiygi — (abuse) /yaf'ee-y*-gee/ You asked for it, you got it. The command-oriented ed/vi/nroff/TeX style of word processing or other user interfaces which are not WYSIWYG. What you actually asked for is often not immediately apparent. This precise sense of "You asked for it, you got it" seems to have first appeared in Ed Post's classic parody "Real Programmers don't use Pascal"; the acronym is a more recent (as of 1993) invention.
- yakking — to talk, especially uninterruptedly and idly; gab; chatter: They've been yakking on the phone for over an hour.
- yangtze — Older Spelling. Chang Jiang.
- yanking — Present participle of yank.
- yapping — to bark sharply, shrilly, or snappishly; yelp.
- yardage — the use of a yard or enclosure, as in loading or unloading cattle or other livestock at a railroad station.
- yardang — a keel-shaped crest or ridge of rock, formed by the action of the wind, usually parallel to the prevailing wind direction.
- yarding — the ground that immediately adjoins or surrounds a house, public building, or other structure.
- yarling — Present participle of yarl.
- yarning — Present participle of yarn.
- yatagan — Alternative spelling of yataghan.
- yawning — being or standing wide open; gaping: the yawning mouth of a cave.
- yawping — Present participle of yawp.
- yealing — a person of the same age as oneself.
- yeaning — Present participle of yean.
- yeggman — yegg.
- yichang — a port in SW Hubei province, in central China, on the Chang Jiang.
- yinyang — Alternative spelling of yin-yang.
- yongjia — former name of Wenzhou.
- yukagir — Yukaghir.
- yungkia — Older Spelling. Yongjia.
- zoogamy — the sexual reproduction of animals
- zygomas — Plural form of zygoma.