8-letter words containing g, y
- livingly — in a lively, vivid manner
- lobbygow — an errand boy, as formerly in the Chinatown section of a city.
- lobbying — an entrance hall, corridor, or vestibule, as in a public building, often serving as an anteroom; foyer.
- logology — (obsolete) Scientific study of words.
- logotype — Also called logo. a single piece of type bearing two or more uncombined letters, a syllable, or a word.
- lollygag — lallygag.
- long-day — requiring a long photoperiod in order to flower.
- longways — longwise.
- losingly — in a losing manner
- lovingly — feeling or showing love; warmly affectionate; fond: loving glances.
- luringly — in a luring or inviting manner
- lychgate — A roofed gateway to a churchyard, formerly used during burials for sheltering a coffin until the clergyman’s arrival.
- lycurgus — flourished 9th century b.c, Spartan lawgiver.
- lygodium — (botany) Any of the genus Lygodium of climbing ferns.
- lying-in — the state of being in childbed; confinement.
- lynching — to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.
- lysergic — Used in designation of lysergic acid, lysergic acid diethylamide.
- lysogens — Plural form of lysogen.
- lysogeny — the state of being lysogenic.
- macgyver — Alternative spelling of MacGyver.
- mahogany — any of several tropical American trees of the genus Swietenia, especially S. mahagoni and S. macrophylla, yielding hard, reddish-brown wood used for making furniture.
- malagasy — a member of any of various peoples native to the island of Madagascar.
- malignly — In a malign manner.
- managery — Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.
- mangabey — any of several slender, long-tailed monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, inhabiting forests of Africa: some species are endangered.
- marrying — to take in marriage: After dating for five years, I finally asked her to marry me.
- mayaguez — a seaport in W Puerto Rico.
- mazology — (obsolete) mammalogy.
- mcguffey — William Holmes, 1800–73, U.S. educator: editor of the Eclectic Readers, a series of school readers.
- meagerly — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
- meagrely — In a meagre way; poorly; inadequately.
- mealybug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- megabyte — 2 20 (1,048,576) bytes.
- megacity — a city having a population of one million or more.
- megadyne — a unit of force equal to one million dynes
- menology — a calendar of the months.
- merogony — the development of an embryo from egg fragments lacking the egg nucleus but having an introduced male nucleus.
- metayage — the system of agriculture based on the use of métayers.
- micrurgy — the manipulation and examination of single cells under a microscope
- mightily — in a mighty manner; powerfully or vigorously.
- misogamy — hatred of marriage.
- misogyne — (rare) A misogynist.
- misogyny — hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women, or prejudice against women.
- misology — distrust or hatred of reason or reasoning.
- mixology — the art or skill of preparing mixed drinks.
- moneybag — a bag for money.
- monogamy — marriage with only one person at a time. Compare bigamy, polygamy.
- monogeny — the hypothetical descent of the human race from a single pair of individuals.
- monogyny — the practice or condition of having only one wife at a time.
- monology — the act or habit of soliloquizing.