8-letter words containing g, y
- autogamy — self-fertilization in flowering plants
- autogyro — autogiro
- autology — the study of oneself
- auxology — (biology) The study of growth.
- axiology — the theory of values, moral or aesthetic
- b-boying — a style of acrobatic dancing that combines intricate footwork with spinning and tumbling, usually to funk or hip-hop music.
- baby-gro — an all-in-one babysuit made of stretchy material
- babygirl — (slang, mostly, AAVE) Friendly or intimate term of address for a woman.
- badgerly — resembling a badger
- bag lady — A bag lady is a homeless woman who carries her possessions in shopping bags.
- balayage — a technique for highlighting hair in which bleach or dye is painted onto sections of the hair with a brush
- ballyrag — bullyrag.
- bandying — to pass from one to another or back and forth; give and take; trade; exchange: to bandy blows; to bandy words.
- bangalay — a myrtaceous Australian tree, Eucalyptus botryoides, valued for its hard red wood
- barangay — The smallest administrative division in the Philippines; a village, district, or ward.
- barology — (obsolete, physics) The science of gravity or weight.
- batology — the study of members of the species Rubus
- be dying — to be eager or desperate (for something or to do something)
- beggarly — meanly inadequate; very poor
- benignly — having a kindly disposition; gracious: a benign king.
- big city — The big city is used to refer to a large city which seems attractive to someone because they think there are many exciting things to do there, and many opportunities to earn a lot of money.
- big easy — the New Orleans
- big eyes — any of several silver and red fishes of the family Priacanthidae, found in the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean and in the West Indies, having a short, flattened body and large eyes.
- bigeminy — a heart complaint in which beats occur in pairs
- bitingly — nipping; smarting; keen: biting cold; a biting sensation on the tongue.
- bodingly — in a boding manner
- body bag — A body bag is a specially designed large plastic bag which is used to carry a dead body away, for example when someone has been killed in a battle or an accident.
- boğazköy — a village in central Asia Minor: site of the ancient Hittite capital
- bogeyism — the recognition of or belief in the existence of ghosts or demons
- bogeyman — A bogeyman is someone whose ideas or actions are disapproved of by some people, and who is described by them as evil or unpleasant in order to make other people afraid.
- bogosity — /boh-go's*-tee/ The degree to which something is "bogus" in the hackish sense of "bad". At CMU, bogosity is measured with a bogometer; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer just triggered". More extremely, "You just pinned my bogometer" means you just said or did something so outrageously bogus that it is off the scale, pinning the bogometer needle at the highest possible reading (one might also say "You just redlined my bogometer"). The agreed-upon unit of bogosity is the microLenat. Also, the potential field generated by a bogon flux; see quantum bogodynamics. See also bogon flux, bogon filter.
- bogotify — (jargon) /boh-go't*-fi:/ To make or become bad. A program that has been changed so many times as to become completely disorganised has become bogotified. If you tighten a nut too hard and strip the threads on the bolt, the bolt has become bogotified. See also bogosity.
- boongary — a tree kangaroo, Dendrolagus lumholtzi, of northeastern Queensland
- boringly — causing or marked by boredom: a boring discussion; to have a boring time.
- bowingly — in a curved manner
- bowyangs — a pair of strings or straps secured round each trouser leg below the knee, worn esp by sheep-shearers and other labourers
- boxology — (graphics) /bok-sol'*-jee/ ASCII art. This term implies a more restricted domain, that of box-and-arrow drawings. "His report has a lot of boxology in it." Compare macrology.
- broguery — the use of a brogue or accent
- bryology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of bryophytes
- bug-eyed — A bug-eyed person or animal has eyes that stick out.
- bullying — the intimidation of weaker people
- bullyrag — to bully, esp by means of cruel practical jokes
- burghley — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. 1520–98, English statesman: chief adviser to Elizabeth I; secretary of state (1558–72) and Lord High Treasurer (1572–98)
- burglary — If someone commits a burglary, they enter a building by force and steal things. Burglary is the act of doing this.
- burgoyne — John. 1722–92, British general in the War of American Independence who was forced to surrender at Saratoga (1777)
- burgundy — Burgundy is used to describe things that are purplish-red in colour.
- by jingo — an exclamation of surprise
- by right — properly; justly
- by sight — by appearance; by recognizing but not through being acquainted
- cabbagey — resembling a cabbage