6-letter words containing y, o, g
- growly — resembling a growl in pitch and harshness: This cold has made my voice growly.
- groyne — groin (def 4).
- grozny — an autonomous republic of the Russian Federation, in Caucasia. 7350 sq. mi. (19,300 sq. km). Capital: Grozny.
- guyots — Plural form of guyot.
- gymno- — naked, bare, or exposed
- gynoid — (science fiction) A robot/android in female form.
- gyroid — (mathematics) An infinitely connected periodic minimal surface containing no straight lines.
- gyrons — Plural form of gyron.
- gyrose — marked with wavy lines.
- hoying — Present participle of hoy.
- hygro- — indicating moisture
- ignomy — Obsolete spelling of ignominy.
- joying — Present participle of joy.
- kyogen — a brief Japanese play performed between Nō plays to provide comic relief.
- logily — in a sluggish, heavy manner
- logway — gangway (def 7).
- longly — having considerable linear extent in space: a long distance; a long handle.
- longyi — a cloth used as a turban, scarf, sarong, etc., in India, Pakistan, and Burma.
- loungy — to pass time idly and indolently.
- loyang — Luoyang.
- morgay — a European small-spotted dogfish, Scyllium canicula
- myogen — any of several proteins found in muscle
- nagoya — a city on S Honshu, in central Japan.
- nongay — a person who is not gay or homosexual
- ob/gyn — Ob/gyn is the branch of medicine that deals with women's medical conditions, pregnancy, and birth. Ob/gyn is an abbreviation for 'obstetrics/gynecology.'
- oogamy — one of a pair of structurally dissimilar gametes, the female gamete being large and nonmotile and the male gamete being small and motile.
- oology — the branch of ornithology that studies birds' eggs.
- orangy — resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color: decorated with orangy-pink flowers.
- oxygen — a colorless, odorless, gaseous element constituting about one-fifth of the volume of the atmosphere and present in a combined state in nature. It is the supporter of combustion in air and was the standard of atomic, combining, and molecular weights until 1961, when carbon 12 became the new standard. Symbol: O; atomic weight: 15.9994; atomic number: 8; density: 1.4290 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- pogany — Willy (William Andrew) 1882–1955, U.S. painter, stage designer, and illustrator; born in Hungary.
- poogye — a Hindu nose-flute
- poyang — a lake in E China, in Kiangsi province. 90 miles (145 km) long.
- roughy — a small marine fish, Arripis georgianus, of New Zealand and Australia.
- smoggy — full of or characterized by smog.
- spongy — of the nature of or resembling a sponge; light, porous, and elastic or readily compressible, as pith or bread.
- stodgy — heavy, dull, or uninteresting; tediously commonplace; boring: a stodgy Victorian novel.
- toughy — toughie.
- toying — an object, often a small representation of something familiar, as an animal or person, for children or others to play with; plaything.
- voguey — relating to someone who aspires to be fashionable
- voyage — a course of travel or passage, especially a long journey by water to a distant place.
- vyborg — a seaport in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Gulf of Finland: formerly in Finland.
- yangon — a republic in SE Asia, on the Bay of Bengal. 261,789 sq. mi. (678,034 sq. km). Capital: Yangon.
- ygmtpo — (chat) (Usenet) "You Greatly Misunderstood The Purpose Of".
- yogini — a woman who practices yoga.
- yogism — a school of Hindu philosophy advocating and prescribing a course of physical and mental disciplines for attaining liberation from the material world and union of the self with the Supreme Being or ultimate principle.
- yogurt — a prepared food having the consistency of custard, made from milk curdled by the action of cultures, sometimes sweetened or flavored.
- yoking — a device for joining together a pair of draft animals, especially oxen, usually consisting of a crosspiece with two bow-shaped pieces, each enclosing the head of an animal. Compare harness (def 1).
- younge — Obsolete spelling of young.
- youngs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of young.
- zygoid — Of a zygote.