9-letter words containing g, r, o, y
- playgroup — a group of small children, especially preschoolers, organized for play or play activities and supervised by adult volunteers.
- poly-drug — being or pertaining to several drug used simultaneously, especially narcotics or addictive drugs: a center for dealing with polydrug abuse.
- polygraph — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- pouringly — in a pouring fashion
- probingly — with a probing approach
- prognathy — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prong key — a key or spanner with two prongs or projections which engage corresponding holes in the face of a nut or component to be turned for tightening, adjustment, etc
- pterygoid — wing-shaped
- pterygote — belonging or pertaining to the arthropod subclass Pterygota, comprising the winged insects.
- purgatory — (in the belief of Roman Catholics and others) a condition or place in which the souls of those dying penitent are purified from venial sins, or undergo the temporal punishment that, after the guilt of mortal sin has been remitted, still remains to be endured by the sinner.
- pyelogram — an x-ray produced by pyelography.
- pyrogenic — producing or produced by heat or fever.
- pyrograph — an object ornamented by pyrography.
- radiology — the science dealing with x-rays or nuclear radiation, especially for medical uses.
- raja yoga — a form of yoga chiefly concerned with controlling and using the energy of the mind by meditation
- reglorify — to glorify again
- rhinology — the science dealing with the nose and its diseases.
- ring buoy — a ring-shaped life preserver.
- rockingly — in a rocking manner
- roguishly — pertaining to, characteristic of, or acting like a rogue; knavish or rascally.
- rompingly — in a romping manner
- rough-dry — to dry (laundry) after washing, without smoothing, ironing, etc.
- sarcology — the branch of anatomy dealing with the soft or fleshy body parts.
- seigniory — the power or authority of a seignior.
- signatory — having signed, or joined in signing, a document: the signatory powers to a treaty.
- soaringly — in a soaring manner
- spirogyra — a widely distributed filamentous freshwater green alga of the genus Spirogyra.
- sporogeny — the process of spore formation in plants and animals
- sporogony — (in certain sporozoans) the multiple fission of an encysted zygote or oocyte, resulting in the formation of sporozoites.
- strongyle — any nematode of the family Strongylidae, parasitic as an adult in the intestine of mammals, especially horses.
- surgeoncy — the office, duties, or position of a surgeon, esp in the army or navy
- surrogacy — the state of being a surrogate or surrogate mother.
- tetralogy — a series of four related dramas, operas, novels, etc.
- therology — the study or science of mammals; mammalogy
- throughly — thoroughly.
- tribology — the study of the effects of friction on moving machine parts and of methods, as lubrication, of obviating them.
- trigynous — (of a plant) having three pistils
- tropology — the use of figurative language in speech or writing.
- troy game — a solemn ritual performed at irregular intervals by the ancient Romans to signalize their alleged descent from the Trojans: notable for the interweaving labyrinthine maneuvers executed by youths on horseback.
- typograph — a machine for creating indentations of characters upon a sheet of metal from which prints can be made
- uranology — uranography.
- uropygial — of or relating to the uropygium.
- uropygium — the projecting terminal portion of a bird's body, from which the tail feathers spring.
- vainglory — excessive elation or pride over one's own achievements, abilities, etc.; boastful vanity.
- very good — excellent
- voyager 1 — a US spacecraft that visited Jupiter (1979) and Saturn (1980); it left the solar system and entered interstellar space in 2012
- voyager 2 — a US spacecraft that visited Jupiter (1979) and Saturn (1981) and made the first flyby of Uranus (1986) and Neptune (1989)
- worryguts — Worrywart, someone who worries excessively.
- xerophagy — a Lenten fast observed especially during Holy Week, constituting the strictest fast in the Eastern Church.
- xylograph — An engraving in wood, especially one used for printing.