9-letter words containing g, y
- geophytes — Plural form of geophyte.
- geophytic — Relating to geophytes.
- germanely — In a manner that is germane, relevantly.
- get ready — the state or condition of being ready.
- geyserite — a variety of siliceous sinter deposited about the orifices of geysers and hot springs.
- ghostlily — In a ghostly way.
- gibbosity — the state of being gibbous.
- gigabytes — Plural form of gigabyte.
- gigacycle — one billion cycles. Abbreviation: Gc.
- gigmanity — the state or quality of being a gigman
- gimmickry — the use of gimmicks.
- gin rummy — gin4 (def 1).
- ginglymus — a joint in which movement is limited to one plane.
- gipsywort — a hairy Eurasian plant, Lycopus europaeus, having two-lipped white flowers with purple dots on the lower lip: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- girlishly — In a girlish manner.
- give away — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- giveaways — Plural form of giveaway.
- gizmology — gadgetry; gadgets collectively
- glace bay — a town in E Nova Scotia, in SE Canada, on E Cape Breton Island on the Atlantic Ocean.
- glacially — of or relating to glaciers or ice sheets.
- glaringly — shining with or reflecting a harshly bright or brilliant light.
- glass eye — artificial eye.
- glass tty — /glas T-T-Y/ or /glas ti'tee/ A terminal that has a display screen but which, because of hardware or software limitations, behaves like a teletype or some other printing terminal, thereby combining the disadvantages of both: like a printing terminal, it can't do fancy display hacks, and like a display terminal, it doesn't produce hard copy. An example is the early "dumb" version of Lear-Siegler ADM 3 (without cursor control). See tube, tty; compare dumb terminal, smart terminal. See "TV Typewriters" for an interesting true story about a glass tty.
- gleefully — full of exultant joy; merry; delighted.
- glengarry — a Scottish cap with straight sides, a crease along the top, and sometimes short ribbon streamers at the back, worn by Highlanders as part of military dress.
- globesity — obesity as affecting a very large percentage of the global population: the public-health crisis of globesity.
- globosely — In a globose manner.
- glory box — a box in which a young woman stores clothes, etc, in preparation for marriage
- glory-pea — either of two trailing plants, Clianthus formosus or C. puniceus, of Australia and New Zealand, having showy red flowers.
- gloryhole — (nonstandard,rare) To have sex through a glory hole.
- glowingly — incandescent.
- glueyness — the state of being gluey
- glyburide — a hypoglycemic substance, C 23 H 28 ClN 3 O 5 S, used orally in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
- glycaemia — the presence of glucose in the blood.
- glycaemic — Alternative spelling of glycemic.
- glycation — (biochemistry) non-enzymatic reaction of a sugar and an amine group of a protein to form a glycoprotein.
- glyceride — any of a group of esters obtained from glycerol by the replacement of one, two, or three hydroxyl groups with a fatty acid: the principal constituent of adipose tissue.
- glycerine — a colorless, odorless, syrupy, sweet liquid, C 3 H 8 O 3 , usually obtained by the saponification of natural fats and oils: used for sweetening and preserving food, in the manufacture of cosmetics, perfumes, inks, and certain glues and cements, as a solvent and automobile antifreeze, and in medicine in suppositories and skin emollients.
- glycerite — a preparation of a medicinal substance dissolved in or mixed with glycerin.
- glycerole — Dated form of glycerol.
- glyceryls — Plural form of glyceryl.
- glycocoll — glycine
- glycolate — a salt or ester of glycolic acid.
- glycoside — any of the class of compounds that yield a sugar and an aglycon upon hydrolysis.
- glycosyls — Plural form of glycosyl.
- gnawingly — In a manner that chafes or worries.
- gnomology — a collection or anthology of gnomes or aphorisms.
- gnu style — (programming) An obsolete and deprecated source code indent style used throughout GNU Emacs and the Free Software Foundation code, and just about nowhere else. Indents are always four spaces per level, with "" and "" halfway between the outer and inner indent levels. if (cond) { } (2014-09-24)
- go astray — person: deviate from correct or good way
- go beyond — exceed