8-letter words containing m, o, n, e, y
- moseying — Present participle of mosey.
- mulroney — (Martin) Brian, born 1939, Canadian political leader: prime minister 1984–93.
- mylonite — Geology. a rock that has been crushed and sheared to such an extent that its original texture has been destroyed.
- myogenic — originating in muscle, as an impulse or sensation.
- myonemes — Plural form of myoneme.
- neomycin — an antibiotic produced by an actinomycete, Streptomyces fradiae, administered orally or locally, used chiefly for skin, urinary tract, and eye infections and as a surgical antiseptic.
- nomogeny — a law or belief that life originated from a natural process instead of a miraculous process
- nonempty — (of a set, group, collection, etc.) containing at least one element.
- nonmoney — not involving money
- noometry — a term used by the satirical novelist Thomas Love Peacock to mean 'measurement of the mind'
- 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
- retronym — a term coined in modification of an original term that was used alone (as acoustic guitar instead of guitar ) to distinguish it from a term referring to a later development (as electric guitar ). Other examples of retronyms are snail mail and analog watch .
- solemnly — grave, sober, or mirthless, as a person, the face, speech, tone, or mood: solemn remarks.
- syndrome — Pathology, Psychiatry. a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease, or the like.
- tenotomy — the cutting of a tendon.
- textonym — (in text messaging) one of two or more words that can be generated by pressing the same combination of numbers on the keypad of a mobile phone
- theonomy — the state of an individual or society that regards its own nature and norms as being in accord with the divine nature.
- twentymo — a book size of about 3 × 5 inches (8 × 12 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 20 leaves or 40 pages.
- uncomely — pleasing in appearance; attractive; fair: a comely face.
- unhomely — not homely
- xenogamy — pollination of the stigma of a flower by pollen from a flower on another plant.
- 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.
- zymogens — Plural form of zymogen.