8-letter words containing a, n, y, m
- numerary — of or relating to a number or numbers.
- nymphaea — a room or area having a fountain, statues, flowers, etc.
- nymphean — Of or pertaining to a nymph or nymphs.
- olympian — pertaining to Mount Olympus or dwelling thereon, as the gods of classical Greece.
- one-many — (of a relation) having the property that an element may be assigned to several elements but that given an element, only one may be assigned to it.
- overmany — an excess of people
- palimony — a form of alimony awarded to one of the partners in a romantic relationship after the breakup of that relationship following a long period of living together.
- paronymy — a play on words
- patronym — patronymic (defs 3, 4).
- paynimry — paganism
- pygmaean — pygmy (defs 6, 7).
- ramayana — an epic of India, one of the Puranas attributed to Valmiki and concerned with the life and adventures of Ramachandra and his wife Sita.
- rampancy — a rampant condition or position.
- randomly — proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern: the random selection of numbers.
- scammony — a twining, Asian convolvulus, Convolvulus scammonia.
- seminary — a special school providing education in theology, religious history, etc., primarily to prepare students for the priesthood, ministry, or rabbinate.
- smyrnean — of or relating to Smyrna, Turkey.
- sycamine — a tree mentioned in the New Testament, probably the black mulberry.
- symantec — (company) Software manufacturer of utility and development applications for Windows and Macintosh platforms. Products include ACT!, Norton Utilities, Norton AntiVirus, Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh, Symantec Cafe.
- syntagma — an element that enters into a syntagmatic relationship.
- sysadmin — a computer system administrator
- tallyman — a person who tallies or keeps account of something.
- tautonym — a scientific name in which the generic and the specific names are the same, as Chloris chloris (the greenfinch).
- taxonomy — the science or technique of classification.
- the many — the majority of mankind, esp the common people
- too many — an excessive number of
- toywoman — a woman who sells toys
- tympanal — pertaining to the middle ear or tympanic membrane.
- tympanic — pertaining or belonging to a tympanum.
- tympanum — Anatomy, Zoology. middle ear. tympanic membrane.
- tyramine — an amine, C 8 H 11 NO, abundant in ripe cheese as a breakdown product of tyrosine by removal of the carboxyl group (COOH).
- xenogamy — pollination of the stigma of a flower by pollen from a flower on another plant.
- yakimono — (in Japan) grilled, fried, or broiled food, esp meat
- yanomama — Yanomamo.
- yanomamo — a member of an indigenous people of southern Venezuela and neighboring Brazil who live in scattered villages in the rain forests and conduct warfare against one another continually.
- yarraman — horse.
- yawnsome — dull and boring; tiresome
- yeomanly — of the condition or rank of a yeoman.
- yeomanry — yeomen collectively.
- you mean — You use 'you mean' in a question to check that you have understood what someone has said.
- zamyatin — Yevgenii Ivanovich (jɪvˈɡjenij ɪˈvanəvitʃ). 1884–1937, Russian novelist and writer, in Paris from 1931, whose works include satirical studies of provincial life in Russia and England, where he worked during World War I, and the dystopian novel We (1924)
- zoomancy — foreseeing the future through observing the actions of animals