8-letter words containing n, a, y, g
- liaoyang — Pinyin, Wade-Giles. a city in central Liaoning province, in NE China.
- lingayat — a member of the Lingayata cult.
- long-day — requiring a long photoperiod in order to flower.
- longways — longwise.
- mahogany — any of several tropical American trees of the genus Swietenia, especially S. mahagoni and S. macrophylla, yielding hard, reddish-brown wood used for making furniture.
- malignly — In a malign manner.
- managery — Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.
- mangabey — any of several slender, long-tailed monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, inhabiting forests of Africa: some species are endangered.
- marrying — to take in marriage: After dating for five years, I finally asked her to marry me.
- megadyne — a unit of force equal to one million dynes
- moneybag — a bag for money.
- monogamy — marriage with only one person at a time. Compare bigamy, polygamy.
- myingyan — a city in central Burma.
- nannygai — a small red saltwater fish, Trachichthodes affinis, of Australian waters.
- nannying — Present participle of nanny.
- nasology — the scientific study of noses.
- naughtly — (obsolete) naughtily; wrongly.
- negatory — marked by negation; denying; negative.
- neyagawa — a city in S Honshu, Japan: a suburb of Osaka.
- nosegays — a small bunch of flowers; bouquet; posy.
- nostalgy — nostalgia.
- nugacity — triviality; insignificance.
- nugatory — of no real value; trifling; worthless.
- orangery — a warm place, as a greenhouse, in which orange trees are cultivated in cool climates.
- panegyry — a panegyric
- partying — a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.: a cocktail party.
- phrygana — another name for garigue, used esp in Greece
- phrygian — of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their language.
- pygmaean — pygmy (defs 6, 7).
- qingyuan — former name of Baoding.
- ragingly — angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination): a speech full of rage; incidents of road rage.
- rallying — the sport of driving in automobile rallies.
- readying — completely prepared or in fit condition for immediate action or use: troops ready for battle; Dinner is ready.
- reagency — the quality or condition of being a reagent
- relaying — re-lay.
- saguenay — a river in SE Canada, in Quebec, flowing SE from Lake St. John to the St. Lawrence. 125 miles (200 km) long.
- sanguify — to generate or turn into blood
- shaoyang — a city in central Hunan province, in E China.
- shenyang — Pinyin, Wade-Giles. a province in NE China. 58,301 sq. mi. (151,000 sq. km). Capital: Shenyang.
- signally — conspicuously; notably.
- splaying — to spread out, expand, or extend.
- stingray — any of the rays, especially of the family Dasyatidae, having a long, flexible tail armed near the base with a strong, serrated bony spine with which they can inflict painful wounds.
- straying — to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
- synalgia — referred pain.
- synalgic — referred pain.
- syngraft — a tissue or organ transplanted from one member of a species to another, genetically identical member of the species, as a kidney transplanted from one identical twin to the other.
- syngraph — a document signed by all parties
- syntagma — an element that enters into a syntagmatic relationship.
- tallying — an account or reckoning; a record of debit and credit, of the score of a game, or the like.
- tangency — the state of being tangent.