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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
  • papagayoGulf of, an inlet of the Pacific, on the NW coast of Costa Rica. 15 miles (25 km) long; 25 miles (40 km) wide.
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