6-letter words containing g, y
- gasify — Convert (a solid or liquid, especially coal) into gas.
- gatsby — (South Africa) A snack consisting of a baguette filled with french fries, sauce, and other ingredients.
- gaydar — a person's purported intuitive or sensing ability to identify homosexuals.
- gayest — of, relating to, or exhibiting sexual desire or behavior directed toward a person or persons of one's own sex; homosexual: a gay couple. Antonyms: straight.
- gayety — gaiety.
- gayish — Somewhat gay; gay to a certain extent.
- gayism — (rare) homosexuality.
- gdynia — a seaport in N Poland, on the Gulf of Danzig.
- geekly — (rare) Concerning or typical of geeks.
- geminy — a pair
- gensym — (library) /jen'sim/ (From the MacLISP for "generated symbol") To invent a new name for something temporary, in such a way that the name is almost certainly not in conflict with one already in use. The canonical form of a gensym is "Gnnnn" where nnnn represents a number; any LISP hacker would recognise G0093 (for example) as a gensym. Gensymmed names are useful for storing or uniquely identifying crufties.
- gently — kindly; amiable: a gentle manner.
- gentry — wellborn and well-bred people.
- geryon — a winged monster with three bodies joined at the waist, killed by Hercules, who stole the monster's cattle as his tenth labour
- get by — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- geyser — a hot spring that intermittently sends up fountainlike jets of water and steam into the air.
- gharry — a horse-drawn cab or carriage used in India and Egypt.
- ghosty — (chiefly, informal) ghostly.
- gidday — (Australia, New Zealand, informal) Alternative form of g'day.
- giggly — to laugh in a silly, often high-pitched way, especially with short, repeated gasps and titters, as from juvenile or ill-concealed amusement or nervous embarrassment.
- gilguy — Nautical. a rope used as a temporary guy.
- gilley — (humour) (Usenet) The unit of analogical bogosity. According to its originator, the standard for one gilley was "the act of bogotoficiously comparing the shutting down of 1000 machines for a day with the killing of one person". The milligilley has been found to suffice for most normal conversational exchanges.
- gilpey — a mischievous, frolicsome boy or girl
- gilroy — a town in W California.
- gilyak — Nivkh.
- girthy — Of significant girth; wide.
- gladly — feeling joy or pleasure; delighted; pleased: glad about the good news; glad that you are here.
- gladys — Elizabeth, 1911–79, U.S. poet.
- glairy — of the nature of glair; viscous.
- glammy — glamorous
- glassy — resembling glass, as in transparency or smoothness.
- gleamy — gleaming.
- gleety — characteristic of or resembling gleet.
- glegly — quickly; cleverly
- gleyed — Simple past tense and past participle of gley.
- glibly — readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so: a glib talker; glib answers.
- glinty — shiny
- glitzy — pretentiously or tastelessly showy: a glitzy gown.
- globby — Characterised by globs or lumps.
- gloomy — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
- gloopy — (informal) Having a glutinous, sloppy consistency; gloppy.
- gloppy — marked by or full of glop.
- glossy — having a shiny or lustrous surface.
- gluily — In a gluey way.
- glumly — sullenly or silently gloomy; dejected.
- glummy — (obsolete) dark; gloomy; dismal.
- glumpy — sullen
- glycin — a poisonous crystalline compound, C 8 H 9 NO 3 , used as a photographic developer.
- glyco- — indicating sugar
- glycol — Also called ethylene glycol, ethylene alcohol. a colorless, sweet liquid, C 2 H 6 O 2 , used chiefly as an automobile antifreeze and as a solvent.