9-letter words containing y, a, h, g
- hypergamy — the practice among Hindu women of marrying into a caste at least as high as their own.
- koshigaya — a city in central Honshu, Japan, a Tokyo suburb.
- kymograph — an instrument for measuring and graphically recording variations in fluid pressure, as those of the human pulse.
- laughably — In a manner that can be laughed at, humorous, in a laughable manner.
- lightyear — Alternative spelling of light year.
- logomachy — a dispute about or concerning words.
- lych gate — a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used during funerals as a temporary shelter for the bier
- maha yoga — a form of yoga incorporating elements of the other major forms
- maha yuga — a period of 12,000 years, comprising four Yugas.
- megaphyll — the relatively large type of leaf produced by ferns and seed plants
- meghalaya — a state in NE India. 8660 sq. mi. (22,429 sq. km). Capital: Shillong.
- monophagy — The feeding on a single type of food (e.g., a single plant species).
- moygashel — an Irish linen
- mycophagy — the eating of mushrooms
- myographs — Plural form of myograph.
- naugahyde — a brand of synthetic leather made from vinyl-coated fabric
- naughtily — disobedient; mischievous (used especially in speaking to or about children): Weren't we naughty not to eat our spinach?
- nightmary — (of a person) prone to having nightmares
- ochlagogy — (rare) Manipulation of a mob by use of inflammatory rhetoric, casting opprobrium, and by appeal to the lowest common denominator generally; extreme and wholly unscrupulous demagogy; the practice of an ochlagogue.
- oligarchy — a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
- orography — the branch of physical geography dealing with mountains.
- orthogamy — (botany) fertilization of the ovules of a plant by pollen from the same plant.
- pathogeny — the production and development of disease.
- pathology — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
- phagocyte — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.
- pharyngo- — pharynx
- playdough — children's modelling clay
- plaything — a thing to play with; toy.
- polygraph — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- polyphagy — an insatiable appetite
- poyang hu — lake in N Jiangxi province, SE China: c. 1,000 sq mi (2,590 sq km)
- prognathy — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- psychogas — a gas with a mind-altering effect
- pyrograph — an object ornamented by pyrography.
- right-way — a common law or statutory right granted to a vehicle, as an airplane or boat, to proceed ahead of another.
- shakingly — the act of a person or thing that shakes.
- sheboygan — a port in E Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- theophagy — the sacramental eating of a god
- typograph — a machine for creating indentations of characters upon a sheet of metal from which prints can be made
- waggishly — In a waggish manner.
- xerophagy — a Lenten fast observed especially during Holy Week, constituting the strictest fast in the Eastern Church.
- xylograph — An engraving in wood, especially one used for printing.
- xylophage — any insect or organism that eats wood
- yang-shao — of or designating a Neolithic culture of N China c5000–3000 b.c., characterized by dwellings with sunken floors, domestication of the pig, and a fine handmade pottery painted mainly in geometric designs of spirals and circles.
- yataghans — Plural form of yataghan.
- zoography — the branch of zoology dealing with the description of animals.