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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.
  • rayleighJohn 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.
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