8-letter words containing g, a, y
- layerage — layering
- layering — a thickness of some material laid on or spread over a surface: a layer of soot on the window sill; two layers of paint.
- lazy guy — a rope or light tackle for keeping a boom from swinging.
- legality — the state or quality of being in conformity with the law; lawfulness.
- legatary — a legatee
- lethargy — the quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic, or indifferent and lazy; apathetic or sluggish inactivity.
- liaoyang — Pinyin, Wade-Giles. a city in central Liaoning province, in NE China.
- lingayat — a member of the Lingayata cult.
- lollygag — lallygag.
- long-day — requiring a long photoperiod in order to flower.
- longways — longwise.
- lychgate — A roofed gateway to a churchyard, formerly used during burials for sheltering a coffin until the clergyman’s arrival.
- macgyver — Alternative spelling of MacGyver.
- mahogany — any of several tropical American trees of the genus Swietenia, especially S. mahagoni and S. macrophylla, yielding hard, reddish-brown wood used for making furniture.
- malagasy — a member of any of various peoples native to the island of Madagascar.
- malignly — In a malign manner.
- managery — Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.
- mangabey — any of several slender, long-tailed monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, inhabiting forests of Africa: some species are endangered.
- marrying — to take in marriage: After dating for five years, I finally asked her to marry me.
- mayaguez — a seaport in W Puerto Rico.
- mazology — (obsolete) mammalogy.
- meagerly — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
- meagrely — In a meagre way; poorly; inadequately.
- mealybug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- megabyte — 2 20 (1,048,576) bytes.
- megacity — a city having a population of one million or more.
- megadyne — a unit of force equal to one million dynes
- metayage — the system of agriculture based on the use of métayers.
- misogamy — hatred of marriage.
- moneybag — a bag for money.
- monogamy — marriage with only one person at a time. Compare bigamy, polygamy.
- myalgias — pain in the muscles; muscular rheumatism.
- myingyan — a city in central Burma.
- myograph — an instrument for recording the contractions and relaxations of muscles.
- nannygai — a small red saltwater fish, Trachichthodes affinis, of Australian waters.
- nannying — Present participle of nanny.
- nasology — the scientific study of noses.
- naughtly — (obsolete) naughtily; wrongly.
- negatory — marked by negation; denying; negative.
- neyagawa — a city in S Honshu, Japan: a suburb of Osaka.
- nosegays — a small bunch of flowers; bouquet; posy.
- nostalgy — nostalgia.
- nugacity — triviality; insignificance.
- nugatory — of no real value; trifling; worthless.
- octalogy — (rare) # A set of eight works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as eight individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- omophagy — The eating of raw food, especially raw meat.
- orangery — a warm place, as a greenhouse, in which orange trees are cultivated in cool climates.
- palilogy — the technique of repeating a word or phrase for emphasis.
- panegyry — a panegyric
- papagayo — Gulf of, an inlet of the Pacific, on the NW coast of Costa Rica. 15 miles (25 km) long; 25 miles (40 km) wide.