9-letter words containing y, g
- go blooey — out of order; faulty.
- go hungry — If people go hungry, they do not have enough food to eat.
- 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.
- goldeneye — either of two diving ducks, Bucephala clangula, of Eurasia and North America, or B. islandica (Barrow's goldeneye) of North America, having bright yellow eyes.
- goldfinny — One of two or more species of European labroid fishes, Symphodus melops and Ctenolabrus rupestris.
- goldovsky — Boris [bawr-is,, bohr-,, bor-;; Russian buh-ryees] /ˈbɔr ɪs,, ˈboʊr-,, ˈbɒr-;; Russian bʌˈryis/ (Show IPA), 1908–2001, U.S. conductor, pianist, and opera director, born in Russia.
- goldsinny — any of various small European wrasses, esp the brightly coloured Ctenolabrus rupestris
- golomynka — an oily fish found only in Lake Baikal
- gong buoy — a buoy in which one or more gongs are struck by hammers that swing freely with the motion of the buoy.
- gonyaulax — any marine dinoflagellate of the genus Gonyaulax, sometimes occurring in great numbers and causing red tide.
- good-copy — an imitation, reproduction, or transcript of an original: a copy of a famous painting.
- goodwilly — a volunteer.
- 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.
- gooeyness — The state or property of being gooey.
- 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.
- gossypine — relating to cotton
- gossypose — raffinose.
- 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.
- gray mold — a disease of plants, characterized by a gray, furry coating on the decaying parts, caused by any of several fungi.
- gray pine — jack pine.
- gray wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus, having a usually grizzled, blackish, or whitish coat: formerly common in Eurasia and North America, some subspecies are now reduced in numbers or near extinction.
- graybacks — Plural form of grayback.
- graybeard — Sometimes Disparaging. a man whose beard is gray; old man; sage.
- grayhound — one of a breed of tall, slender, short-haired dogs, noted for its keen sight and swiftness.
- graylings — Plural form of grayling.
- 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.