8-letter words containing a, n, y, t
- blantyre — a city in S Malawi: includes the former town of Limbe.
- blatancy — a blatant quality or thing
- bonytail — a fish, Gila elegans, found in the Colorado River, having flaring fins and a thin caudal peduncle.
- bothyman — a person who lives in a bothy
- brittany — a region of NW France, the peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay: settled by Celtic refugees from Wales and Cornwall during the Anglo-Saxon invasions; disputed between England and France until 1364
- buttyman — a male homosexual
- caninity — the quality or state of being canine
- cantigny — a village in N France, S of Amiens: first major battle of U.S. forces in World War I, May 1918.
- cartoony — cartoonish
- catenary — the curve assumed by a heavy uniform flexible cord hanging freely from two points. When symmetrical about the y-axis and intersecting it at y = a, the equation is y = a cosh x/a
- centaury — any Eurasian plant of the genus Centaurium, esp C. erythraea, having purplish-pink flowers and formerly believed to have medicinal properties: family Gentianaceae
- centiday — One one-hundredth (1/100) of one day; that is, 14 minutes and 24 seconds.
- chanteys — Plural form of chantey.
- contrary — Ideas, attitudes, or reactions that are contrary to each other are completely different from each other.
- corybant — a wild attendant of the goddess Cybele
- cryonaut — a person whose dead body has been preserved by the technique of cryonics.
- cryptand — (chemistry) any of a class of polycyclic compounds related to the crown ethers, having three chains attached at two nitrogen atoms.
- curranty — full of currants
- cyanates — Plural form of cyanate.
- cyanotic — blueness or lividness of the skin, as from imperfectly oxygenated blood.
- cyanuret — cyanide
- cymation — cymatium.
- daintily — of delicate beauty; exquisite: a dainty lace handkerchief.
- dancetty — having a zigzag pattern
- daventry — a town in central England, in Northamptonshire: light industries, site of an important international radio transmitter. Pop: 21 731 (2001)
- dentally — in relation to the teeth
- dictynna — an ancient Cretan goddess of the sea.
- donatary — the recipient of a donation
- donatory — a donee of the king, especially one given the right by the king to property obtained by escheat or forfeit.
- dynamist — A subscriber to the philosophy of dynamism.
- dynamite — A high explosive consisting of nitroglycerine mixed with an absorbent material and typically molded into sticks.
- dynastic — Pertaining to a dynasty.
- dynatron — an electron tube, usually a tetrode, that produces an oscillating current at certain frequencies
- dystonia — abnormal tone of any tissue.
- egyptian — person from Egypt
- enthalpy — A thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the total heat content of a system. It is equal to the internal energy of the system plus the product of pressure and volume.
- entreaty — An earnest or humble request.
- entryway — A way in to somewhere or something; an entrance.
- epinasty — (botany) the downward curvature of leaves etc due to differential growth rates.
- errantly — In an errant manner.
- errantry — The state of roving in search of chivalrous adventure.
- ethanoyl — of, consisting of, or containing the monovalent group CH3CO-
- fentanyl — a synthetic, short-acting narcotic analgesic and sedative, C 22 H 28 N 2 O, used pharmacologically in anesthesia and neuroleptanalgesia, and also as an illicit drug: Medics quickly administered fentanyl to the injured soldiers. Drug dealers are lacing heroin with fentanyl.
- finality — the state, quality, or fact of being final; conclusiveness or decisiveness.
- gannetry — a gannet breeding-ground
- guaranty — a warrant, pledge, or formal assurance given as security that another's debt or obligation will be fulfilled.
- gymnasts — Plural form of gymnast.
- gyrating — Present participle of gyrate.
- gyration — the act of gyrating; circular or spiral motion; revolution; rotation; whirling.
- hanratty — James. 1936–62, Englishman executed, despite conflicting evidence, for a murder on the A6 road. Subsequent public concern played a major part in the abolition of capital punishment in Britain. New DNA evidence led to an appeal by Hanratty's supporters being dismissed in 2002