9-letter words containing y, a
- genically — by a genic process
- genitally — Concerning the genitals.
- geobotany — phytogeography.
- geography — the science dealing with the areal differentiation of the earth's surface, as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrelations over the world of such elements as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, population, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.
- germanely — In a manner that is germane, relevantly.
- get ready — the state or condition of being ready.
- gigabytes — Plural form of gigabyte.
- gigacycle — one billion cycles. Abbreviation: Gc.
- gigmanity — the state or quality of being a gigman
- give away — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- giveaways — Plural form of giveaway.
- 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.
- 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.
- glory-pea — either of two trailing plants, Clianthus formosus or C. puniceus, of Australia and New Zealand, having showy red flowers.
- 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.
- glycolate — a salt or ester of glycolic acid.
- gnawingly — In a manner that chafes or worries.
- go astray — person: deviate from correct or good way
- go steady — firmly placed or fixed; stable in position or equilibrium: a steady ladder.
- goadingly — So as to goad or incite.
- goatishly — In a goatish way.
- golomynka — an oily fish found only in Lake Baikal
- gonyaulax — any marine dinoflagellate of the genus Gonyaulax, sometimes occurring in great numbers and causing red tide.
- goody bag — A goody bag is a bag of little gifts, often given away by manufacturers in order to encourage people to try their products.
- goose bay — an air base in S central Labrador, in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the great circle route between New York and London: used as a fuel stop by some transatlantic airplanes.
- gossamery — a fine, filmy cobweb seen on grass or bushes or floating in the air in calm weather, especially in autumn.
- gracility — The state of being gracefully slender.
- gradatory — (architecture) A series of steps from a cloister into a church.
- gradually — taking place, changing, moving, etc., by small degrees or little by little: gradual improvement in health.
- grandaddy — Alternative spelling of granddaddy.
- grandbaby — an infant grandchild.
- grannyish — typical of or suitable for an elderly woman; old-fashioned
- granulary — granular
- grape ivy — a hairy vine, Cissus rhombifolia, native to tropical America, having glossy trifoliate leaves and often cultivated as a houseplant.
- gratingly — irritating or unpleasant to one's feelings.
- graveyard — a burial ground, often associated with smaller rural churches, as distinct from a larger urban or public cemetery.
- gravidity — pregnant1 (def 1).
- gray area — uncertain, unclear issue
- gray body — any body that emits radiation at each wavelength in a constant ratio less than unity to that emitted by a black body at the same temperature.
- gray card — a card of controlled reflectance held near a subject to approximate middle tones and used as a target for an exposure meter.
- gray code — (hardware) A binary sequence with the property that only one bit changes between any two consecutive elements (the two codes have a Hamming distance of one). The Gray code originated when digital logic circuits were built from vacuum tubes and electromechanical relays. Counters generated tremendous power demands and noise spikes when many bits changed at once. E.g. when incrementing a register containing 11111111, the back-EMF from the relays' collapsing magnetic fields required copious noise suppression. Using Gray code counters, any increment or decrement changed only one bit, regardless of the size of the number. Gray code can also be used to convert the angular position of a disk to digital form. A radial line of sensors reads the code off the surface of the disk and if the disk is half-way between two positions each sensor might read its bit from both positions at once but since only one bit differs between the two, the value read is guaranteed to be one of the two valid values rather than some third (invalid) combination (a glitch). One possible algorithm for generating a Gray code sequence is to toggle the lowest numbered bit that results in a new code each time. Here is a four bit Gray code sequence generated in this way: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 The codes were patented in 1953 by Frank Gray, a Bell Labs researcher.
- gray duck — any of several ducks in which certain immature or female plumages are predominantly gray, as the gadwall and the pintail.
- gray iron — pig iron or cast iron having much of its carbon in the form of graphite and exhibiting a gray fracture.
- gray lady — a female worker in the American Red Cross who serves as a volunteer aide in medical services.