9-letter words containing g, o, r, y
- garryowen — (rugby union) A high short punt onto or behind the defending team.
- gasometry — the measurement of gases.
- gay power — the organized political influence exerted by homosexuals as a group, especially to ensure equal rights in employment, housing, etc.
- geography — the science dealing with the areal differentiation of the earth's surface, as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrelations over the world of such elements as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, population, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.
- gipsywort — a hairy Eurasian plant, Lycopus europaeus, having two-lipped white flowers with purple dots on the lower lip: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- glory box — a box in which a young woman stores clothes, etc, in preparation for marriage
- glory-pea — either of two trailing plants, Clianthus formosus or C. puniceus, of Australia and New Zealand, having showy red flowers.
- gloryhole — (nonstandard,rare) To have sex through a glory hole.
- glycerole — Dated form of glycerol.
- go astray — person: deviate from correct or good way
- go hungry — If people go hungry, they do not have enough food to eat.
- gossamery — a fine, filmy cobweb seen on grass or bushes or floating in the air in calm weather, especially in autumn.
- gradatory — (architecture) A series of steps from a cloister into a church.
- 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 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 iron — pig iron or cast iron having much of its carbon in the form of graphite and exhibiting a gray fracture.
- gray mold — a disease of plants, characterized by a gray, furry coating on the decaying parts, caused by any of several fungi.
- 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.
- grayhound — one of a breed of tall, slender, short-haired dogs, noted for its keen sight and swiftness.
- graystone — (uncountable) A type of gray, volcanic rock, typically containing feldspar and iron.
- 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 body — a body that emits radiation in constant proportion to the corresponding black-body radiation
- grey vote — the body of elderly people's votes, or elderly people regarded collectively as voters
- greyhound — one of a breed of tall, slender, short-haired dogs, noted for its keen sight and swiftness.
- greystone — a grey igneous rock of volcanic origin
- gropingly — In a groping manner; blindly.
- grouchily — In a grouchy manner.
- growingly — becoming greater in quantity, size, extent, or intensity: growing discontent among industrial workers.
- gustatory — of or relating to taste or tasting.
- gynocracy — gynarchy.
- gynophore — the elongated stalk of a pistil.
- gypsywort — a plant, Lycopus europaeus, that is indigenous to Europe and Asia and has white flowers
- gyrations — Plural form of gyration.
- gyrectomy — excision of a cerebral gyrus.
- gyrfalcon — a large falcon, Falco rusticolus, of arctic and subarctic regions, having white, gray, or blackish color phases: now greatly reduced in number.
- gyromancy — a method of prediction or prophecy in which a person moves round and round in a circle and the place at which they fall to the ground is said to be highly significant
- gyropilot — automatic pilot.
- gyroplane — autogiro.
- gyroscope — an apparatus consisting of a rotating wheel so mounted that its axis can turn freely in certain or all directions, and capable of maintaining the same absolute direction in space in spite of movements of the mountings and surrounding parts: used to maintain equilibrium, determine direction, etc.
- gyrovague — a vagrant monk who wandered from one monastery to another.
- herbology — the study or collecting of herbs, especially as a hobby.
- hercogamy — (of flowers) the prevention of self-fertilization
- hierology — literature or learning regarding sacred things.
- hooraying — Present participle of hooray.
- hydrogels — Plural form of hydrogel.
- hydrogens — Plural form of hydrogen.
- hydrology — the science dealing with the occurrence, circulation, distribution, and properties of the waters of the earth and its atmosphere.
- hygristor — an electronic component the resistance of which varies with humidity