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9-letter words containing g, a, y

  • gradatory — (architecture) A series of steps from a cloister into a church.
  • gradually — taking place, changing, moving, etc., by small degrees or little by little: gradual improvement in health.
  • grandaddy — Alternative spelling of granddaddy.
  • grandbaby — an infant grandchild.
  • grannyish — typical of or suitable for an elderly woman; old-fashioned
  • granulary — granular
  • grape ivy — a hairy vine, Cissus rhombifolia, native to tropical America, having glossy trifoliate leaves and often cultivated as a houseplant.
  • gratingly — irritating or unpleasant to one's feelings.
  • graveyard — a burial ground, often associated with smaller rural churches, as distinct from a larger urban or public cemetery.
  • gravidity — pregnant1 (def 1).
  • gray area — uncertain, unclear issue
  • gray body — any body that emits radiation at each wavelength in a constant ratio less than unity to that emitted by a black body at the same temperature.
  • gray card — a card of controlled reflectance held near a subject to approximate middle tones and used as a target for an exposure meter.
  • gray code — (hardware)   A binary sequence with the property that only one bit changes between any two consecutive elements (the two codes have a Hamming distance of one). The Gray code originated when digital logic circuits were built from vacuum tubes and electromechanical relays. Counters generated tremendous power demands and noise spikes when many bits changed at once. E.g. when incrementing a register containing 11111111, the back-EMF from the relays' collapsing magnetic fields required copious noise suppression. Using Gray code counters, any increment or decrement changed only one bit, regardless of the size of the number. Gray code can also be used to convert the angular position of a disk to digital form. A radial line of sensors reads the code off the surface of the disk and if the disk is half-way between two positions each sensor might read its bit from both positions at once but since only one bit differs between the two, the value read is guaranteed to be one of the two valid values rather than some third (invalid) combination (a glitch). One possible algorithm for generating a Gray code sequence is to toggle the lowest numbered bit that results in a new code each time. Here is a four bit Gray code sequence generated in this way: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 The codes were patented in 1953 by Frank Gray, a Bell Labs researcher.
  • gray duck — any of several ducks in which certain immature or female plumages are predominantly gray, as the gadwall and the pintail.
  • gray iron — pig iron or cast iron having much of its carbon in the form of graphite and exhibiting a gray fracture.
  • gray lady — a female worker in the American Red Cross who serves as a volunteer aide in medical services.
  • gray mold — a disease of plants, characterized by a gray, furry coating on the decaying parts, caused by any of several fungi.
  • gray pine — jack pine.
  • gray wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus, having a usually grizzled, blackish, or whitish coat: formerly common in Eurasia and North America, some subspecies are now reduced in numbers or near extinction.
  • graybacks — Plural form of grayback.
  • graybeard — Sometimes Disparaging. a man whose beard is gray; old man; sage.
  • grayhound — one of a breed of tall, slender, short-haired dogs, noted for its keen sight and swiftness.
  • graylings — Plural form of grayling.
  • grayscale — a scale of achromatic colors having several, usually ten, equal gradations ranging from white to black, used in television and photography.
  • graystone — (uncountable) A type of gray, volcanic rock, typically containing feldspar and iron.
  • graywacke — Geology. a dark-gray coarse-grained wacke.
  • graywater — dirty water from sinks, showers, bathtubs, washing machines, and the like, that can be recycled, as for use in flushing toilets.
  • green bay — an arm of Lake Michigan, in NE Wisconsin. 120 miles (195 km) long.
  • greenaway — Kate (Catherine) 1846–1901, English painter and author and illustrator of children's books.
  • greenways — Plural form of greenway.
  • grey area — If you refer to something as a grey area, you mean that it is unclear, for example because nobody is sure how to deal with it or who is responsible for it, or it falls between two separate categories of things.
  • grey seal — a greyish species of earless seal, Halichoerus grypus
  • grey-wave — denoting a company or an investment that is potentially profitable but is unlikely to fulfil expectations before the investor has grey hair
  • greybeard — Sometimes Disparaging. a man whose beard is gray; old man; sage.
  • greyscale — Alternative spelling of grayscale.
  • greywacke — Geology. a dark-gray coarse-grained wacke.
  • greywater — Alternative spelling of gray water.
  • guanylate — (biochemistry) any salt or ester of guanylic acid; the salts are used as flavour enhancers.
  • guardedly — cautious; careful; prudent: to be guarded in one's speech.
  • guayabera — a sport shirt or lightweight jacket, often with several large front pockets, modeled upon a loose, smocklike shirt originally worn by men in Cuba.
  • guayaquil — a seaport in W Ecuador, on the Gulf of Guayaquil.
  • guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
  • guideways — Plural form of guideway.
  • gunny-bag — a sack made of gunny or burlap.
  • gunnysack — a sack made of gunny or burlap.
  • gustatory — of or relating to taste or tasting.
  • gym class — physical education lesson
  • gymkhanas — Plural form of gymkhana.
  • gymnasial — relating to gymnasium schools
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