8-letter words containing g, y
- exigency — An urgent need or demand.
- exiguity — The quality of being meagre or scanty.
- exophagy — the practice of cannibalism outside of the tribe or family
- eyeglass — A single lens for correcting or assisting defective eyesight, especially a monocle.
- eyesight — A person's ability to see.
- faggotry — (pejorative, slang) The quality of being a faggot (homosexual).
- fall guy — an easy victim.
- fancying — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
- ferrying — Present participle of ferry.
- fetology — a field of medicine involving the study, diagnosis, and treatment of the fetus.
- flag day — June 14, the anniversary of the day (June 14, 1777) when Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag of the United States.
- fly high — having a great or considerable extent or reach upward or vertically; lofty; tall: a high wall.
- fly page — banner
- fogeydom — the state or disposition of a fogey
- fogeyish — Characteristic of or resembling an old fogey: outdated or out of touch.
- foo yong — a Chinese dish made of eggs mixed with chicken, crab meat, etc, and cooked like an omelette
- foraying — a quick raid, usually for the purpose of taking plunder: Vikings made a foray on the port.
- frigidly — In a frigid manner; coldly.
- frogeyed — (of a person) having a bulging eye or bulging eyes
- froggery — a collection of frogs
- frugally — economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful: What your office needs is a frugal manager who can save you money without resorting to painful cutbacks. Synonyms: thrifty, chary, provident, careful, prudent, penny-wise, scrimping; miserly, Scotch, penny-pinching. Antonyms: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, prodigal, profligate.
- fugacity — fleeting; transitory: a sensational story with but a fugacious claim on the public's attention.
- fulgency — the quality of being fulgent; resplendence; brightness
- fumingly — In a rage.
- gadgetry — mechanical or electronic contrivances; gadgets: the gadgetry of the well-equipped modern kitchen.
- gainsays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gainsay.
- gala day — a day of sports, entertainment, etc, often organized in order to raise money for a charity, cause, school, etc
- galabiya — djellabah.
- galloway — a historic region in SW Scotland.
- game boy — a handheld games console, made by the company Nintendo, which was popular in the 1990s
- gameplay — The tactical aspects of a computer game, such as its plot and the way it is played, as distinct from the graphics and sound effects.
- gamyness — the quality of being gamy
- gang way — if someone calls out gang way! they are asking people to make way or clear a path
- gangways — Plural form of gangway.
- gannetry — a gannet breeding-ground
- ganymeda — Hebe.
- ganymede — Also, Ganymedes [gan-uh-mee-deez] /ˌgæn əˈmi diz/ (Show IPA). Classical Mythology. a Trojan youth who was abducted by Zeus and taken to Olympus, where he was made the cupbearer of the gods and became immortal.
- gap year — a period of time, usually an academic or calendar year, in which a student takes a break from school to travel, work, or volunteer, typically after ending high school and before starting college.
- gapingly — In a gaping way.
- garbagey — Like garbage; trashy, worthless.
- gardyloo — (Scotland, obsolete) Used by servants in medieval Scotland to warn passers-by of waste about to be thrown from a window into the street below. The term was still in use as late the 1930s and 1940s, when many people had no indoor toilets.
- garganey — a small Old World duck, Anas querquedula.
- gargoyle — a grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal.
- garishly — crudely or tastelessly colorful, showy, or elaborate, as clothes or decoration.
- garlicky — a hardy plant, Allium sativum, of the amaryllis family whose strongly, pungent bulb is used in cookery and medicine.
- gateways — Plural form of gateway.
- gauchely — In a gauche manner.
- gayelles — Plural form of gayelle.
- gayomart — the first Aryan and the sixth creation of Ahura Mazda.
- gaywings — fringed polygala.