| CRYOGENY | • cryogeny n. (Dated) cryogenics. • CRYOGENY n. a branch of physics. |
| CYTOGENY | • cytogeny n. (Biology) cell production or development; cytogenesis. • CYTOGENY n. the formation of cells. |
| GYRODYNE | • gyrodyne n. A kind of VTOL aircraft with a helicopter rotor-like system driven by its engine for takeoff and landing… • GYRODYNE n. a rotorcraft in which the rotors are powered only for takeoff and landing, not for cruising flight. |
| LYSOGENY | • lysogeny n. The incorporation of the nucleic acid of a bacteriophage into that of a host bacterium; sometimes transmitted… • LYSOGENY n. the state of being like a lysogen. |
| MERONYMY | • meronymy n. (Semantics) The relationship of being a constituent part or member of something; a system of meronyms. • MERONYMY n. the state of being a meronym, a word whose relation to another is that of a part to the whole. |
| METONYMY | • metonymy n. (Rhetoric) The use of a single characteristic or part of an object, concept or phenomenon to identify… • metonymy n. (Countable) A metonym. • METONYMY n. a type of figure of speech. |
| PENNYBOY | • PENNYBOY n. an employee whose duties include menial tasks such as running errands. |
| POLYGENY | • polygeny n. Polygenesis. • polygeny n. The control of a single trait, or phenotype, by multiple genes. • POLYGENY n. generation from multiple origins. |
| POLYGYNE | • polygyne adj. Describing a hive or colony (of a social insect) that has more than one active queen. • POLYGYNE adj. having more than one egg-laying queen in an insect colony. |
| POLYTENY | • polyteny n. (Molecular biology) The presence within a cell of polytene chromosomes (large chromosomes with multiple… • POLYTENY n. in abnormally large chromosomes, the state of being composed of many reduplicated strands. |
| SYNONYME | • synonyme n. Archaic form of synonym. • SYNONYME n. a word having the same meaning as another, also SYNONYM. |
| YEOMANLY | • yeomanly adj. Like a yeoman: stout and true. • yeomanly adj. Of or proper to the class of yeomen in British history. • yeomanly adv. Like a yeoman: stoutly and bravely. |
| YEOMANRY | • yeomanry n. (Historical) A class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land. • yeomanry n. A British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense and later incorporated into the Territorial Army. • YEOMANRY n. a collective body of yeomen. |
| YONDERLY | • yonderly adj. (UK, dialect, obsolete) anxious; absent-minded; vacant. • YONDERLY adj. (dialect) mentally or emotionally distant; absentminded. |