8-letter words containing n, a, y
- orangery — a warm place, as a greenhouse, in which orange trees are cultivated in cool climates.
- ordinary — of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.
- oriskany — a village in central New York, near Utica: battle 1777.
- ornately — elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so: They bought an ornate Louis XIV sofa.
- overmany — an excess of people
- palimony — a form of alimony awarded to one of the partners in a romantic relationship after the breakup of that relationship following a long period of living together.
- panderly — in the manner of a pander
- pandowdy — apple pandowdy.
- panegyry — a panegyric
- panofsky — Erwin, 1892–1968, U.S. art historian, born in Germany.
- pansophy — universal wisdom or knowledge.
- papyrine — paper-like; papyral
- paronymy — a play on words
- partying — a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.: a cocktail party.
- patently — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- patronly — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- patronym — patronymic (defs 3, 4).
- pattypan — white bush (scallop)
- pay down — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
- pay zone — A pay zone is a reservoir or part of a reservoir that contains hydrocarbons that can be extracted economically.
- paynimry — paganism
- payphone — a public telephone requiring that the caller deposit coins or use a credit card to pay for a call.
- paysandu — a city in W Uruguay, on the Uruguay River.
- peasanty — having qualities ascribed to traditional country life or people; simple or unsophisticated
- peccancy — sinning; guilty of a moral offense.
- pedantry — the character, qualities, practices, etc., of a pedant, especially undue display of learning.
- penality — of, relating to, or involving punishment, as for crimes or offenses.
- pernancy — a taking or receiving, as of the rents or profits of an estate.
- phantasy — fantasy.
- phrygana — another name for garigue, used esp in Greece
- phrygian — of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their language.
- picayune — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- piquancy — agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; pleasantly biting or tart: a piquant aspic.
- playdown — a play-off.
- playland — an area used for recreation or amusement; playground or amusement park.
- plenarty — the state of an endowed church office when occupied
- polyaxon — a nerve cell with multiple branches
- polypnea — rapid breathing; panting.
- polyxena — a daughter of King Priam of Troy, who was sacrificed on the command of Achilles' ghost
- polyzoan — bryozoan
- ponytail — an arrangement of the hair in a long lock drawn tightly against the back of the head and cinched so as to hang loosely.
- popinjay — a person given to vain, pretentious displays and empty chatter; coxcomb; fop.
- pycnidia — (in certain ascomycetes and fungi imperfecti) a globose or flask-shaped fruiting body bearing conidia on conidiophores.
- pygmaean — pygmy (defs 6, 7).
- pyinkado — a leguminous tree, Xylia xylocarpa (or dolabriformis), native to India and Myanmar
- pyranoid — relating to the structure of a pyranose
- pyranose — any monosaccharide having a pyran ring structure.
- pyrenean — of or relating to the Pyrenees or their inhabitants
- qingyuan — former name of Baoding.
- quaintly — having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque: a quaint old house.