10-letter words containing g, y
- flaggingly — So as to flag or slow down; wearyingly.
- flagrantly — shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: a flagrant error.
- fleeringly — In a fleering manner; scornfully; with derision.
- fleetingly — passing swiftly; vanishing quickly; transient; transitory: fleeting beauty; a fleeting glance.
- flight pay — a pay supplement allowed by the U.S. Air Force to certain crew members who attain a minimum flight time per month.
- flirtingly — In a flirting manner.
- floatingly — In a floating manner.
- fly agaric — a very poisonous common woodland mushroom, Amanita muscaria, having a glossy red or orange cap with white spots, formerly a fly poison.
- fly-bridge — Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
- flying fox — any large fruit bat of the genus Pteropus, of Old World tropical regions, having a foxlike head.
- flying jib — the outer or outermost of two or more jibs, set well above the jib boom.
- flyingfish — any of a family (Exocoetidae, order Atheriniformes) of chiefly warm-water, marine bony fishes with winglike pectoral fins that enable them to glide through the air
- flyposting — the posting of advertising or political bills, posters, etc in unauthorized places
- flytipping — Alternative form of fly-tipping.
- flyweights — Plural form of flyweight.
- fondlingly — In a fondling manner.
- forgettery — a faculty or facility for forgetting; faulty memory: a witness with a very convenient forgettery.
- forgivably — In a forgivable way.
- 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.
- fugitively — In a fugitive manner.
- fugitivity — a person who is fleeing, from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway: a fugitive from justice; a fugitive from a dictatorial regime.
- fumblingly — In a fumbling manner.
- 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.
- gainsaying — to deny, dispute, or contradict.
- 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.
- galactosyl — the glycosyl radical of galactose
- galaxywide — Throughout a galaxy.
- galleryite — a spectator, as in a theater gallery or at a golf match.
- galleywest — Informal. into a state of unconsciousness, confusion, or disarray (usually used in the phrase to knock galley-west).
- gallically — pertaining to the Gauls or Gaul.
- galsworthy — John, 1867–1933, English novelist and dramatist: Nobel Prize 1932.
- gameplayer — One who plays a game or games.
- gamesomely — In a gamesome manner.
- gametocyte — a cell that produces gametes.
- gamilaraay — Kamilaroi.
- gamma rays — a photon of penetrating electromagnetic radiation (gamma radiation) emitted from an atomic nucleus.
- gammopathy — a disorder of the immune system characterized by abnormally increased levels of immunoglobulins in the blood.
- 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.