8-letter words containing n, a, y
- quandary — a state of perplexity or uncertainty, especially as to what to do; dilemma.
- quantify — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- quantity — a particular or indefinite amount of anything: a small quantity of milk; the ocean's vast quantity of fish.
- quiddany — a type of quince jelly
- radiancy — radiance.
- 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.
- ramayana — an epic of India, one of the Puranas attributed to Valmiki and concerned with the life and adventures of Ramachandra and his wife Sita.
- rampancy — a rampant condition or position.
- rancidly — in a rancid manner
- randomly — proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern: the random selection of numbers.
- 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.
- run away — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- ryukyuan — a native or inhabitant of Ryukyu.
- saffrony — saffron-coloured
- saguenay — a river in SE Canada, in Quebec, flowing SE from Lake St. John to the St. Lawrence. 125 miles (200 km) long.
- saliency — salience.
- salinity — of, containing, or resembling common table salt; salty or saltlike: a saline solution.
- sanatory — favorable for health; curative; healing.
- sanctify — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
- sanctity — holiness, saintliness, or godliness.
- sand fly — any of several small, bloodsucking, dipterous insects of the family Psychodidae that are vectors of several diseases of humans.
- sand-fly — any of several small, bloodsucking, dipterous insects of the family Psychodidae that are vectors of several diseases of humans.
- sandusky — a port in N Ohio, on Lake Erie.
- sandyish — somewhat sandy
- sanguify — to generate or turn into blood
- sanitary — of or relating to health or the conditions affecting health, especially with reference to cleanliness, precautions against disease, etc.
- sannyasi — Hinduism. a wandering beggar and ascetic.
- sapiency — having or showing great wisdom or sound judgment.
- saponify — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
- sardonyx — a chalcedony that is used for cameos and has sard and chalcedony of another color, usually white, arranged in straight parallel bands.
- satanity — the quality or act of being satanic
- say when — to state when an action is to be stopped or begun, as when someone is pouring a drink
- sayonara — a Japanese farewell
- scammony — a twining, Asian convolvulus, Convolvulus scammonia.
- scantily — scant in amount, quantity, etc.; barely sufficient.
- scantity — the quality of being scant or scarce
- scythian — pertaining to Scythia, its people, or their language.
- seacunny — a steersman or quartermaster in a ship manned by lascars
- seminary — a special school providing education in theology, religious history, etc., primarily to prepare students for the priesthood, ministry, or rabbinate.
- sexenary — senary.
- 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.
- smyrnean — of or relating to Smyrna, Turkey.
- snailery — a place where snails are bred
- snakefly — any neuropterous insect of the family Raphidiidae, of western North America, having an elongated prothorax resembling a neck.
- snarkily — in an irritable or snarky manner