9-letter words containing y, e, a
- glass eye — artificial eye.
- 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.
- glycolate — a salt or ester of glycolic acid.
- go steady — firmly placed or fixed; stable in position or equilibrium: a steady ladder.
- 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.
- grape ivy — a hairy vine, Cissus rhombifolia, native to tropical America, having glossy trifoliate leaves and often cultivated as a houseplant.
- graveyard — a burial ground, often associated with smaller rural churches, as distinct from a larger urban or public cemetery.
- gray area — uncertain, unclear issue
- 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 pine — jack pine.
- graybeard — Sometimes Disparaging. a man whose beard is gray; old man; sage.
- grayscale — a scale of achromatic colors having several, usually ten, equal gradations ranging from white to black, used in television and photography.
- graystone — (uncountable) A type of gray, volcanic rock, typically containing feldspar and iron.
- graywacke — Geology. a dark-gray coarse-grained wacke.
- graywater — dirty water from sinks, showers, bathtubs, washing machines, and the like, that can be recycled, as for use in flushing toilets.
- green bay — an arm of Lake Michigan, in NE Wisconsin. 120 miles (195 km) long.
- greenaway — Kate (Catherine) 1846–1901, English painter and author and illustrator of children's books.
- greenways — Plural form of greenway.
- grey area — If you refer to something as a grey area, you mean that it is unclear, for example because nobody is sure how to deal with it or who is responsible for it, or it falls between two separate categories of things.
- grey seal — a greyish species of earless seal, Halichoerus grypus
- grey-wave — denoting a company or an investment that is potentially profitable but is unlikely to fulfil expectations before the investor has grey hair
- greybeard — Sometimes Disparaging. a man whose beard is gray; old man; sage.
- greyscale — Alternative spelling of grayscale.
- greywacke — Geology. a dark-gray coarse-grained wacke.
- greywater — Alternative spelling of gray water.
- guanylate — (biochemistry) any salt or ester of guanylic acid; the salts are used as flavour enhancers.
- guardedly — cautious; careful; prudent: to be guarded in one's speech.
- guayabera — a sport shirt or lightweight jacket, often with several large front pockets, modeled upon a loose, smocklike shirt originally worn by men in Cuba.
- guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
- guideways — Plural form of guideway.
- gynaeceum — (among the ancient Greeks) the part of a dwelling used by women.
- gynaecoid — Characteristic of a woman.
- gypsyhead — a flanged drum on a winch, for winding in lines.
- gyroplane — autogiro.
- gyrovague — a vagrant monk who wandered from one monastery to another.
- hackberry — any of several trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Celtis, of the elm family, bearing cherrylike fruit.
- hackneyed — let out, employed, or done for hire.
- haecceity — That property or quality of a thing by virtue of which it is unique or describable as “ this (one). ”.
- haemocyte — Alternative spelling of hemocyte.
- haemolyse — to break down red blood cells so that haemoglobin is released
- hairdryer — (chiefly UK) A small electrical appliance for drying hair, by generating a stream of hot air.
- hairstyle — a style of cutting, arranging, or combing the hair; hairdo; coiffure.
- half-year — a period of 6 months
- halfpenny — a bronze coin of the United Kingdom, equal to half a penny: use phased out in 1984.
- halophyte — a plant that thrives in saline soil.
- halysites — an extinct genus comprising the chain corals.