8-letter words containing d, a, n, y
- fedayeen — a member of an Arab commando group operating especially against Israel.
- fidayeen — Plural form of fidayee.
- ganymeda — Hebe.
- ganymede — Also, Ganymedes [gan-uh-mee-deez] /ˌgæn əˈmi diz/ (Show IPA). Classical Mythology. a Trojan youth who was abducted by Zeus and taken to Olympus, where he was made the cupbearer of the gods and became immortal.
- gwyniads — Plural form of gwyniad.
- gyandzha — city in NC Azerbaijan, in Transcaucasia: pop. 282,000
- gynandry — hermaphroditism.
- handedly — (nonstandard) Easily; with ease.
- handyman — a person hired to do various small jobs, especially in the maintenance of an apartment building, office building, or the like.
- handymen — Plural form of handyman.
- hydranth — the terminal part of a hydroid polyp that bears the mouth and tentacles and contains the stomach region.
- hydrants — Plural form of hydrant.
- hyoidean — Also, hyoidal, hyoidean. noting or pertaining to a U -shaped bone at the root of the tongue in humans, or a corresponding bone or collection of bones in animals.
- intraday — occurring during a single day.
- inwardly — in or on, or with reference to, the inside or inner part; internally.
- jimdandy — (dated, slang) A fine or excellent person; a crackerjack.
- junkyard — a yard for the collection, storage, and resale of junk.
- kyanized — Simple past tense and past participle of kyanize.
- landlady — a woman who owns and leases an apartment, house, land, etc., to others.
- lanyards — Plural form of lanyard.
- lay down — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- leadenly — In a leaden manner.
- long-day — requiring a long photoperiod in order to flower.
- lycaenid — A member of the taxonomic family 'Lycaenidae'.
- lysander — died 395 b.c, Spartan naval commander and statesman.
- lysandra — a female given name.
- maidenly — pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a maiden: a maidenly blush.
- mainyard — (sailing) The yard of the mainmast, from which the mainsail is hung.
- mandalay — a city in central Burma (Myanmar), on the Irrawaddy River: the former capital of Upper Burma.
- mandays' — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy; based on a standard number of man-hours in a day of work.
- manyfold — by many times; by multiples: The state's highway expenses have increased manyfold in the past decade.
- maryland — a state in the E United States, on the Atlantic coast. 10,577 sq. mi. (27,395 sq. km). Capital: Annapolis. Abbreviation: MD (for use with zip code), Md.
- medianly — In a median direction.
- megadyne — a unit of force equal to one million dynes
- misandry — hatred of males.
- monandry — the practice or condition of having one husband at a time.
- mordancy — the quality of being mordant; sharpness.
- name day — the feast day of the saint after whom a person is named.
- ne'erday — New Year's Day
- newslady — A newswoman.
- nodality — pertaining to or of the nature of a node.
- nondairy — being a substitute for milk or milk products; containing no dairy ingredients: nondairy whipped topping for the pie.
- nondiary — Not of or relating to a diary.
- nonhardy — characterized by fragility or incapable of surviving under difficult conditions
- normandy — a region in N France along the English Channel: invaded and settled by Scandinavians in the 10th century, becoming a duchy in a.d. 911; later a province, the capital of which was Rouen; Allied invasion in World War II began here June 6, 1944.
- nowadays — at the present day; in these times: Few people do their laundry by hand nowadays.
- odyssean — (italics) an epic poem attributed to Homer, describing Odysseus's adventures in his ten-year attempt to return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.
- onwardly — moving forward; advancing
- open day — An open day is a day on which members of the public are encouraged to visit a particular school, university, or other institution to see what it is like.
- ordinary — of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.