9-letter words containing y, o, g, h
- phonology — the study of the distribution and patterning of speech sounds in a language and of the tacit rules governing pronunciation.
- phycology — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
- phylogeny — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
- phytology — botany.
- playdough — children's modelling clay
- ploughboy — a boy who guides the animals drawing a plough
- 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.
- rhinology — the science dealing with the nose and its diseases.
- roguishly — pertaining to, characteristic of, or acting like a rogue; knavish or rascally.
- rough-dry — to dry (laundry) after washing, without smoothing, ironing, etc.
- sheboygan — a port in E Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- sphygmoid — resembling the pulse; pulselike.
- syphoning — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
- theophagy — the sacramental eating of a god
- therology — the study or science of mammals; mammalogy
- throughly — thoroughly.
- tough guy — man: macho, aggressive
- typograph — a machine for creating indentations of characters upon a sheet of metal from which prints can be made
- unghostly — not resembling a ghost
- voguishly — in a voguish 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.
- youngthly — youthful, pertaining to youth
- zoography — the branch of zoology dealing with the description of animals.
- zygophore — (in certain fungi) any of several specialized branches of hyphae, bearing the isogametes that unite to produce a zygospore.
- zygophyte — a plant that reproduces by means of zygospores.