8-letter words containing c, a, n, y, o
- lycaonia — an ancient country in S Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- macintoy — /mak'in-toy/ The Apple Macintosh, considered as a toy. Less pejorative than Macintrash.
- maconchy — Dame Elizabeth, married name Elizabeth LeFanu. 1907–94, British composer of Irish parentage; noted esp for her chamber music, which includes 13 string quartets and Romanza (1980) for viola and ensemble
- monarchy — a state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch. Compare absolute monarchy, limited monarchy.
- mordancy — the quality of being mordant; sharpness.
- myomancy — a form of divination by observing mice
- nancyboy — (slang, derogatory) An effeminate or homosexual man.
- neocracy — Government by the new or inexperienced.
- noctuary — a journal of what happens in the night
- nomarchy — one of the provinces into which modern Greece is divided.
- normalcy — the quality or condition of being normal, as the general economic, political, and social conditions of a nation; normality: After months of living in a state of tension, all yearned for a return to normalcy.
- octonary — pertaining to the number 8.
- scammony — a twining, Asian convolvulus, Convolvulus scammonia.
- syncopal — Grammar. the contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in the reduction of never to ne'er.
- zoomancy — foreseeing the future through observing the actions of animals