10-letter words containing g, y, r
- fortifying — Present participle of fortify.
- fragrantly — having a pleasant scent or aroma; sweet-smelling; sweet-scented: a fragrant rose.
- freezingly — (of temperatures) approaching, at, or below the freezing point.
- frowningly — While or as if frowning.
- frying pan — A frying pan is a flat metal pan with a long handle, in which you fry food.
- frying-pan — a shallow, long-handled pan in which food is fried.
- fumigatory — having the ability to fumigate; relating to fumigation
- funny girl — a woman who is funny or who is a comedienne
- futurology — the study or forecasting of trends or developments in science, technology, political or social structure, etc.
- gadzookery — the use or overuse of period-specific or archaic expressions, as in a historical novel: Without any gadzookery and its excessive use of “forsooth,” “prithee,” etc., her first historical novel conveys a superb sense of the period.
- gal friday — Older Use: Sometimes Offensive. a woman who acts as a general assistant in a business office or to an executive and has a wide variety of especially secretarial and clerical duties.
- galleryite — a spectator, as in a theater gallery or at a golf match.
- galsworthy — John, 1867–1933, English novelist and dramatist: Nobel Prize 1932.
- gameplayer — One who plays a game or games.
- gamilaraay — Kamilaroi.
- gamma rays — a photon of penetrating electromagnetic radiation (gamma radiation) emitted from an atomic nucleus.
- gargoylish — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a gargoyle.
- gargoylism — a congenital abnormality characterized chiefly by dwarfism, grotesque deformities of the head, trunk, and limbs, mental retardation, and enlargement of the liver and spleen.
- gastrology — the study of the structure, functions, and diseases of the stomach.
- gastronomy — the art or science of good eating.
- gastrotomy — the operation of cutting into the stomach.
- gate array — Computers, Electronics. logic array.
- gayfeather — Many of the plant of the genus Liatris, native to North America, including Mexico, east of the continental divide.
- gendarmery — Alternative spelling of gendarmerie.
- generality — an indefinite, unspecific, or undetailed statement: to speak in generalities about human rights.
- genericity — Genericness, the state or quality of being generic.
- generosity — readiness or liberality in giving.
- generously — liberal in giving or sharing; unselfish: a generous patron of the arts; a generous gift.
- geratology — the study of the diminution or decline of life, as in an individual animal or a species approaching extinction.
- germ layer — one of the three primary embryonic cell layers.
- german ivy — a twining composite plant, Senecio mikanioides, native to southern Africa, having ivy-shaped leaves and clusters of yellow flowers.
- germinally — By or involving germ cells.
- gesturally — in a gestural manner
- gettysburg — a borough in S Pennsylvania: Confederate forces defeated in a crucial battle of the Civil War fought near here on July 1–3, 1863; national cemetery and military park.
- gimmickery — the use of gimmicks.
- gin rickey — a rickey made with gin.
- ginglyform — (anatomy, rare) ginglymoid.
- glorifying — Present participle of glorify.
- gloriously — delightful; wonderful; completely enjoyable: to have a glorious time at the circus.
- glory bush — a shrub, Tibouchina urvilleana, native to Brazil, having showy purple flowers, cultivated as an ornamental.
- glory days — very great praise, honor, or distinction bestowed by common consent; renown: to win glory on the field of battle.
- glory hole — Nautical. the quarters on a ship that are occupied by the stewards or stokers. lazaretto (def 3). any locker or enclosed space for loose gear.
- gloryholes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gloryhole.
- glycerides — Plural form of glyceride.
- glyceridic — Of or pertaining to glycerol or glycerides.
- glycosuria — excretion of glucose in the urine, as in diabetes.
- go haywire — to behave or perform erratically
- godoy cruz — a city in Mendoza province, W Argentina.
- goliardery — one of a class of wandering scholar-poets in Germany, France, and England, chiefly in the 12th and 13th centuries, noted as the authors of satirical Latin verse written in celebration of conviviality, sensual pleasures, etc.
- goniometry — an instrument for measuring solid angles, as of crystals.