8-letter words containing g, y
- sry gene — a sex-determining gene on the Y chromosome in mammals that determines maleness and is essential for development of the testes.
- staggery — tending to stagger
- stilyaga — (formerly, in the Soviet Union) a person, usually young, who adopted the unconventional manner and dress of some Western youth groups, as rockers or punk-rock fans.
- stingily — reluctant to give or spend; not generous; niggardly; penurious: He's a stingy old miser.
- stingray — any of the rays, especially of the family Dasyatidae, having a long, flexible tail armed near the base with a strong, serrated bony spine with which they can inflict painful wounds.
- straggly — straggling; rambling.
- strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
- straying — to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
- strongly — with great strength or force: wind blowing strongly from the west.
- studying — application of the mind to the acquisition of knowledge, as by reading, investigation, or reflection: long hours of study.
- stymying — Golf. (on a putting green) an instance of a ball's lying on a direct line between the cup and the ball of an opponent about to putt.
- swing by — Aerospace. a trajectory that uses the gravitational field of one celestial body to alter the course of a spacecraft destined for another body.
- synalgia — referred pain.
- synalgic — referred pain.
- synching — synchronization: The picture and the soundtrack were out of sync.
- synergic — the interaction of elements that when combined produce a total effect that is greater than the sum of the individual elements, contributions, etc.; synergism.
- synergid — one of two small cells that lie inside the embryo sac of a flowering plant and nourish the ovum.
- syngraft — a tissue or organ transplanted from one member of a species to another, genetically identical member of the species, as a kidney transplanted from one identical twin to the other.
- syngraph — a document signed by all parties
- syntagma — an element that enters into a syntagmatic relationship.
- syringes — a small device consisting of a glass, metal, or hard rubber tube, narrowed at its outlet, and fitted with either a piston or a rubber bulb for drawing in a quantity of fluid or for ejecting fluid in a stream, for cleaning wounds, injecting fluids into the body, etc.
- tallying — an account or reckoning; a record of debit and credit, of the score of a game, or the like.
- tangency — the state of being tangent.
- tangibly — capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial.
- tarrying — to remain or stay, as in a place; sojourn: He tarried in Baltimore on his way to Washington.
- telegony — a former belief that a sire can influence the characteristics of the progeny of the female parent and subsequent mates.
- theogony — the origin of the gods.
- theology — the field of study and analysis that treats of God and of God's attributes and relations to the universe; study of divine things or religious truth; divinity.
- thuggery — a cruel or vicious ruffian, robber, or murderer.
- tigereye — a golden-brown chatoyant stone used for ornament, formed by the alteration of crocidolite, and consisting essentially of quartz colored by iron oxide.
- tigrinya — a Semitic language spoken in northern Ethiopia.
- toadying — an obsequious flatterer; sycophant.
- toby jug — Also, Toby, Toby jug. a mug in the form of a stout old man wearing a three-cornered hat.
- tocology — obstetrics.
- tokology — obstetrics.
- topology — the study of those properties of geometric forms that remain invariant under certain transformations, as bending or stretching.
- triglyph — a structural member of a Doric frieze, separating two consecutive metopes, and consisting typically of a rectangular block with two vertical grooves or glyphs, and two chamfers or half grooves at the sides, together counting as a third glyph, and leaving three flat vertical bands on the face of the block.
- trysting — an appointment to meet at a certain time and place, especially one made somewhat secretly by lovers.
- typology — the doctrine or study of types or prefigurative symbols, especially in scriptural literature.
- ungainly — not graceful; awkward; unwieldy; clumsy: an ungainly child; an ungainly prose style.
- ungently — in an ungentle manner
- ungreedy — excessively or inordinately desirous of wealth, profit, etc.; avaricious: the greedy owners of the company.
- unguilty — innocent
- unifying — bringing about unification
- unkingly — not appropriate to a king
- unyoking — to free from or as if from a yoke.
- urgently — compelling or requiring immediate action or attention; imperative; pressing: an urgent matter.
- urgingly — in an urging manner
- vagility — the ability of an organism to move about freely and migrate.
- vagotomy — the surgical severance of vagus nerve fibers, performed to reduce acid secretion by the stomach.