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Words containing gamy

4 letter words containing gamy

  • gamy — having the tangy flavor or odor of game: I like the gamy taste of venison.

5 letter words containing gamy

  • -gamy — denoting marriage or sexual union
  • agamy — the absence of a rule dictating marriage choices within a social group.

6 letter words containing gamy

  • bigamy — Bigamy is the crime of marrying a person when you are already legally married to someone else.
  • digamy — a second marriage, after the death or divorce of the first husband or wife; deuterogamy. Compare monogamy (def 3).
  • oogamy — one of a pair of structurally dissimilar gametes, the female gamete being large and nonmotile and the male gamete being small and motile.

7 letter words containing gamy

  • apogamy — a type of reproduction, occurring in some ferns, in which the sporophyte develops from the gametophyte without fusion of gametes
  • exogamy — The custom of marrying outside a community, clan, or tribe.
  • isogamy — the fusion of two gametes of similar form, as in certain algae.
  • pangamy — unrestricted mating
  • syngamy — union of gametes, as in fertilization or conjugation; sexual reproduction.

8 letter words containing gamy

  • allogamy — cross-fertilization in flowering plants
  • autogamy — self-fertilization in flowering plants
  • endogamy — The custom of marrying only within the limits of a local community, clan, or tribe.
  • gamyness — the quality of being gamy
  • hologamy — a type of reproduction in which the gametes are like ordinary cells in form and size, as is found in some algae and protozoa

9 letter words containing gamy

  • anisogamy — a type of sexual reproduction in which the gametes are dissimilar, either in size alone or in size and form
  • dichogamy — the maturation of male and female parts of a flower at different times, preventing automatic self-pollination
  • hercogamy — (of flowers) the prevention of self-fertilization
  • hypergamy — the practice among Hindu women of marrying into a caste at least as high as their own.
  • karyogamy — the fusion of the nuclei of cells, as in fertilization.

10 letter words containing gamy

  • chasmogamy — the production of flowers that open, so as to expose the reproductive organs and allow cross-pollination
  • cryptogamy — the state of being a cryptogam
  • heterogamy — heterogamous state.
  • plasmogamy — the fusion of the protoplasts of cells.
  • plastogamy — the fusion of multiple cells without the fusion of their nuclei

11 letter words containing gamy

  • chalazogamy — (of plants) the process of fertilization whereby the pollen tube penetrates the embryosac through the chalaza rather than through the micropyle
  • cleistogamy — self-pollination and fertilization of an unopened flower, as in the flowers of the violet produced in summer
  • deuterogamy — a marriage after the death or divorce of the first spouse
  • geitonogamy — pollination of a flower by pollen from another flower on the same plant.
  • siphonogamy — a mode of pollination in which pollen tubes develop to facilitate the passage of male cells to eggs

12 letter words containing gamy

  • autoallogamy — the ability of some plants of a species to cross-pollinate and others to self-pollinate

On this page, we collect all words with GAMY. To make easier to find the right word we have divided all 45 words to groups according to their length. So you should go to appropriate page if can’t find the word that contains GAMY that you are searching. Also you can use this page in Scrabble.

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