9-letter words containing g, e, y
- glycaemic — Alternative spelling of glycemic.
- glyceride — any of a group of esters obtained from glycerol by the replacement of one, two, or three hydroxyl groups with a fatty acid: the principal constituent of adipose tissue.
- glycerine — a colorless, odorless, syrupy, sweet liquid, C 3 H 8 O 3 , usually obtained by the saponification of natural fats and oils: used for sweetening and preserving food, in the manufacture of cosmetics, perfumes, inks, and certain glues and cements, as a solvent and automobile antifreeze, and in medicine in suppositories and skin emollients.
- glycerite — a preparation of a medicinal substance dissolved in or mixed with glycerin.
- glycerole — Dated form of glycerol.
- glyceryls — Plural form of glyceryl.
- glycolate — a salt or ester of glycolic acid.
- glycoside — any of the class of compounds that yield a sugar and an aglycon upon hydrolysis.
- gnu style — (programming) An obsolete and deprecated source code indent style used throughout GNU Emacs and the Free Software Foundation code, and just about nowhere else. Indents are always four spaces per level, with "" and "" halfway between the outer and inner indent levels. if (cond) { } (2014-09-24)
- go beyond — exceed
- go blooey — out of order; faulty.
- go steady — firmly placed or fixed; stable in position or equilibrium: a steady ladder.
- goldeneye — either of two diving ducks, Bucephala clangula, of Eurasia and North America, or B. islandica (Barrow's goldeneye) of North America, having bright yellow eyes.
- gooeyness — The state or property of being gooey.
- goose bay — an air base in S central Labrador, in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the great circle route between New York and London: used as a fuel stop by some transatlantic airplanes.
- gossamery — a fine, filmy cobweb seen on grass or bushes or floating in the air in calm weather, especially in autumn.
- gossypine — relating to cotton
- gossypose — raffinose.
- grape ivy — a hairy vine, Cissus rhombifolia, native to tropical America, having glossy trifoliate leaves and often cultivated as a houseplant.
- graveyard — a burial ground, often associated with smaller rural churches, as distinct from a larger urban or public cemetery.
- gray area — uncertain, unclear issue
- 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 pine — jack pine.
- graybeard — Sometimes Disparaging. a man whose beard is gray; old man; sage.
- 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.
- gregory i — Saint ("Gregory the Great") a.d. c540–604, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 590–604.
- gregory v — (Bruno of Carinthia) died a.d. 999, German ecclesiastic: pope 996–999.
- gregory x — (Teobaldo Visconti) c1210–76, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1271–76.
- 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 body — a body that emits radiation in constant proportion to the corresponding black-body radiation
- grey seal — a greyish species of earless seal, Halichoerus grypus
- grey vote — the body of elderly people's votes, or elderly people regarded collectively as voters
- 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.
- greyhound — one of a breed of tall, slender, short-haired dogs, noted for its keen sight and swiftness.
- greyscale — Alternative spelling of grayscale.
- greystone — a grey igneous rock of volcanic origin
- 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.
- guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
- guernseys — Plural form of guernsey.