8-letter words containing g, a, y
- paraguay — a republic in central South America between Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina. 157,047 sq. mi. (406,750 sq. km). Capital: Asunción.
- paralogy — false reasoning
- partying — a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.: a cocktail party.
- paygrade — a level on a pay scale
- pedagogy — the function or work of a teacher; teaching.
- phrygana — another name for garigue, used esp in Greece
- phrygian — of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their language.
- plagiary — plagiarism.
- play god — make life-and-death decisions
- playgirl — a woman who pursues a life of pleasure without responsibility or attachments, especially one who is of comfortable means.
- playgoer — a person who attends the theater often or habitually.
- poly bag — a polythene bag, esp one used to store or protect food or household articles
- polygala — any plant of the genus Polygala, comprising the milkworts.
- polygamy — the practice or condition of having more than one spouse, especially wife, at one time. Compare bigamy (def 1), monogamy (def 1).
- porogamy — the fertilization of a seed plant involving passage of the pollen tube into the ovule by the micropyle
- pygmaean — pygmy (defs 6, 7).
- qingyuan — former name of Baoding.
- quagmiry — relating to a quagmire
- raggedly — clothed in tattered garments: a ragged old man.
- ragingly — angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination): a speech full of rage; incidents of road rage.
- rallying — the sport of driving in automobile rallies.
- rayleigh — John William Strutt [struht] /strʌt/ (Show IPA), 3rd Baron, 1842–1919, English physicist: Nobel prize 1904.
- readying — completely prepared or in fit condition for immediate action or use: troops ready for battle; Dinner is ready.
- reagency — the quality or condition of being a reagent
- regality — royalty, sovereignty, or kingship.
- relaying — re-lay.
- ridgeway — a road or track along a ridge, esp one of great antiquity
- rogatory — pertaining to asking or requesting: a rogatory commission.
- rubygate — an Italian political scandal in which Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was accused of paying for sex with a nightclub dancer and of abusing his office
- ryegrass — any of several European grasses of the genus Lolium, as L. perenne (perennial ryegrass) grown for forage in the U.S.
- sagacity — acuteness of mental discernment and soundness of judgment.
- saguenay — a river in SE Canada, in Quebec, flowing SE from Lake St. John to the St. Lawrence. 125 miles (200 km) long.
- sanguify — to generate or turn into blood
- savagely — fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed: savage beasts.
- savagery — an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition; barbarity.
- scraggly — irregular; uneven; jagged.
- shaoyang — a city in central Hunan province, in E China.
- shenyang — Pinyin, Wade-Giles. a province in NE China. 58,301 sq. mi. (151,000 sq. km). Capital: Shenyang.
- signally — conspicuously; notably.
- spagyric — pertaining to or resembling alchemy; alchemic.
- splaying — to spread out, expand, or extend.
- spyglass — a small telescope.
- staggery — tending to stagger
- stilyaga — (formerly, in the Soviet Union) a person, usually young, who adopted the unconventional manner and dress of some Western youth groups, as rockers or punk-rock fans.
- stingray — any of the rays, especially of the family Dasyatidae, having a long, flexible tail armed near the base with a strong, serrated bony spine with which they can inflict painful wounds.
- straggly — straggling; rambling.
- strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
- straying — to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
- synalgia — referred pain.
- synalgic — referred pain.