8-letter words containing g, y
- rallying — the sport of driving in automobile rallies.
- rayleigh — John William Strutt [struht] /strʌt/ (Show IPA), 3rd Baron, 1842–1919, English physicist: Nobel prize 1904.
- readying — completely prepared or in fit condition for immediate action or use: troops ready for battle; Dinner is ready.
- reagency — the quality or condition of being a reagent
- regality — royalty, sovereignty, or kingship.
- registry — Windows Registry
- relaying — re-lay.
- rheology — the study of the deformation and flow of matter.
- ridgeway — a road or track along a ridge, esp one of great antiquity
- rigidify — to make or become rigid
- rigidity — stiff or unyielding; not pliant or flexible; hard: a rigid strip of metal.
- rogatory — pertaining to asking or requesting: a rogatory commission.
- rovingly — in a roving manner
- rubygate — an Italian political scandal in which Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was accused of paying for sex with a nightclub dancer and of abusing his office
- ruggedly — having a roughly broken, rocky, hilly, or jagged surface: rugged ground.
- rugosity — having wrinkles; wrinkled; ridged.
- ryegrass — any of several European grasses of the genus Lolium, as L. perenne (perennial ryegrass) grown for forage in the U.S.
- sagacity — acuteness of mental discernment and soundness of judgment.
- saguenay — a river in SE Canada, in Quebec, flowing SE from Lake St. John to the St. Lawrence. 125 miles (200 km) long.
- sanguify — to generate or turn into blood
- savagely — fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed: savage beasts.
- savagery — an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition; barbarity.
- scraggly — irregular; uneven; jagged.
- scriggly — wriggly
- scroungy — given to or characterized by scrounging.
- scything — an agricultural implement consisting of a long, curving blade fastened at an angle to a handle, for cutting grass, grain, etc., by hand.
- serology — the science dealing with the immunological properties and actions of serum.
- sexology — the study of sexual behavior.
- shaoyang — a city in central Hunan province, in E China.
- shenyang — Pinyin, Wade-Giles. a province in NE China. 58,301 sq. mi. (151,000 sq. km). Capital: Shenyang.
- sighyper — Special Interest Group on Hypertext and Multimedia of the SGML Users' Group.
- signally — conspicuously; notably.
- signiory — seigniory.
- sinology — the study of the language, literature, history, customs, etc., of China.
- sitology — the branch of medicine dealing with nutrition and dietetics.
- sky-high — very high
- skylight — an opening in a roof or ceiling, fitted with glass, for admitting daylight.
- slightly — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
- sly grog — bootleg liquor.
- sly-grog — bootleg liquor.
- smuggery — the condition or an instance of being smug; smugness
- snuggery — a snug place or position.
- spagyric — pertaining to or resembling alchemy; alchemic.
- sphygmic — of or relating to the pulse.
- sphygmo- — indicating the pulse
- sphygmus — the pulse.
- splaying — to spread out, expand, or extend.
- spy ring — a group of spies operating covertly together
- spyglass — a small telescope.
- squiggly — a short, irregular curve or twist, as in writing or drawing.