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10-letter words containing g, y

  • budget day — the day on which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
  • buggy whip — horsewhip
  • bumblingly — in a bumbling manner
  • bunglingly — in a bungling manner
  • bunny girl — a night-club hostess whose costume includes a rabbit-like tail and ears
  • bustlingly — in a bustling manner
  • by degrees — If something happens by degrees, it happens slowly and gradually.
  • by george! — a figure of St. George killing the dragon, especially one forming part of the insignia of the Order of the Garter.
  • cacography — bad handwriting
  • cajolingly — In a cajoling manner.
  • caligraphy — Alternative form of calligraphy.
  • cardiology — Cardiology is the study of the heart and its diseases.
  • carnifying — Present participle of carnify.
  • carphology — the action of grasping at imaginary objects or plucking at one's bed linen, a characteristic of people affected by delirium
  • catalysing — Present participle of catalyse.
  • catalyzing — Present participle of catalyze.
  • category 3 — (hardware)   (Cat 3, or "voice grade") An American Standards Institute standard for UTP cables. Used, e.g., for 100BaseVG network cabling.
  • category 5 — The term Category 5 refers to Ethernet cabling that allows data transfers up to 100 Megabits per second.
  • category a — (of a prisoner) regarded as highly dangerous and therefore requiring constant observation and maximum security
  • category d — (of a prisoner) regarded as sufficiently trustworthy to be kept under open prison conditions
  • cephalalgy — Dated form of cephalalgia.
  • cerography — the art of engraving on a waxed plate on which a printing surface is created by electrotyping
  • certifying — Present participle of certify.
  • chaffingly — in a rallying yet light-hearted manner
  • change key — a key opening only one lock.
  • changeably — liable to change or to be changed; variable.
  • charmingly — In a charming manner.
  • chasmogamy — the production of flowers that open, so as to expose the reproductive organs and allow cross-pollination
  • cheeringly — In a way that cheers; hearteningly, encouragingly.
  • chillingly — coldness, especially a moderate but uncomfortably penetrating coldness: the chill of evening.
  • chirognomy — the study of the hand in order to discern a person's nature or future events
  • chirurgery — surgery.
  • choreology — the method of writing down the signs and characters that indicate movements in dance
  • chronology — The chronology of a series of past events is the times at which they happened in the order in which they happened.
  • clankingly — With a clanking sound.
  • clarifying — to make (an idea, statement, etc.) clear or intelligible; to free from ambiguity.
  • clashingly — In a clashing manner.
  • clownology — The study of being a clown.
  • codicology — the study of manuscripts
  • cognizably — In a cognizable manner.
  • cohomology — the abstract study of algebraic topology
  • cometology — the study of comets
  • companying — Present participle of company.
  • conchology — the study and collection of mollusc shells
  • condignity — merit earned through good works while in a state of grace, and having a just claim on such rewards as heavenly glory. Compare congruity (def 4).
  • config.sys — (operating system)   A text file containing special system configuration commands, found in the root directory on an MS-DOS computer, typically on drive C (the hard disk). It is read by MS-DOS at boot time, after the setup has been read from CMOS RAM and before running AUTOEXEC.BAT. It can be modified by the user. Some example commands which CONFIG.SYS might contain are: DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /testmem:off Load the extended memory manager. DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM Load the expanded memory manager. BUFFERS=10,0 Specify memory for disk buffers. FILES=70 Set the number of files that can be open at once. DOS=UMB DOS is located in UppeMemoryBlock. LASTDRIVE=Z Disk drives are A: to Z:. FCBS=16,0 Set the number of file control blocks. DEVICEHIGH /L:1,12048 =C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE Report the DOS version to older programs. DOS=HIGH DOS should maintain a link to UMB. COUNTRY=358,437 C:\DOS\COUNTRY.SYS Set the country code for some programs. STACKS=9,256 Set dynamic stacks for hardware control. SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS\ /E:1024 /p Set the location of the command interpreter.
  • congruency — congruence.
  • conjugally — In a conjugal manner; as husband and wife.
  • consignify — to signify (something) when understood or interpreted in combination with something else
  • contiguity — the state of being contiguous; nearness or contact
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