8-letter words containing n, a, y
- aneurysm — a sac formed by abnormal dilation of the weakened wall of a blood vessel
- anglesey — an island and county of N Wales, formerly part of Gwynedd (1974–96), separated from the mainland by the Menai Strait. Administrative centre: Llangefni. Pop: 59 500 (2003 est). Area: 720 sq km (278 sq miles)
- anhungry — (obsolete, rare) Hungry.
- animally — in a physical manner or from the point of view of the anima
- ankylose — (of bones in a joint, etc) to fuse or stiffen by ankylosis
- annensky — Innokenty Fyodorovich [ee-nuh-kyen-ti fyaw-duh-ruh-vyich] /i nʌˈkyɛn tɪ ˈfyɔ də rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1856–1909, Russian poet.
- annoybot — (computing, slang) A bot within an IRC channel that sends annoying messages to online participants.
- annoying — Someone or something that is annoying makes you feel fairly angry and impatient.
- annually — of, for, or pertaining to a year; yearly: annual salary.
- annulary — (archaic) Having the form of a ring; annular.
- anocracy — A political system which is neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic, often being vulnerable to political instability.
- anodally — in an anodal manner
- anodynes — Plural form of anodyne.
- anodynic — relating to the soothing or alleviating of pain
- anonymal — (rare) Anonymous.
- antagony — (obsolete) contest; opposition; antagonism.
- antakiya — Arabic name of Antioch.
- antetype — an earlier form; prototype
- antiarmy — Opposing an army or armies.
- antibody — Antibodies are substances which a person's or an animal's body produces in their blood in order to destroy substances which carry disease.
- anticity — opposed to cities
- antilogy — a contradiction in terms
- antimony — a toxic metallic element that exists in two allotropic forms and occurs principally in stibnite. The stable form is a brittle silvery-white crystalline metal that is added to alloys to increase their strength and hardness and is used in semiconductors. Symbol: Sb; atomic no: 51; atomic wt: 121.757; valency: 0, –3, +3, or +5; relative density: 6.691; melting pt: 630.76°C; boiling pt: 1587°C
- antinomy — opposition of one law, principle, or rule to another; contradiction within a law
- antipyic — acting against or preventing suppuration
- antiquey — having the appearance of an antique
- antisway — Designed to stabilize the left and right suspension systems of a road vehicle so as reduce roll or sway when turning corners.
- antitype — a person or thing that is foreshadowed or represented by a type or symbol, esp a character or event in the New Testament prefigured in the Old Testament
- antonyms — a word opposite in meaning to another. Fast is an antonym of slow. Compare synonym (def 1).
- antonymy — the semantic relationship between words that have opposite meanings
- any luck — If you ask someone the question 'Any luck?' or 'No luck?', you want to know if they have been successful in something they were trying to do.
- any more — If something does not happen or is not true any more or any longer, it has stopped happening or is no longer true.
- anybodys — a person of some importance: If you're anybody, you'll receive an invitation.
- anyplace — Anyplace means the same as anywhere.
- anything — You use anything in statements with negative meaning to indicate in a general way that nothing is present or that an action or event does not or cannot happen.
- anythink — (UK) eye dialect of anything.
- anywhere — You use anywhere in statements with negative meaning to indicate that a place does not exist.
- apollyon — the destroyer, a name given to the Devil (Revelation 9:11)
- apophony — a change in the quality of a vowel sound to indicate grammatical change
- applying — to make use of as relevant, suitable, or pertinent: to apply a theory to a problem.
- aranyaka — one of a class of the Vedic texts that, together with the Upanishads, make up the closing portions of the Brahmanas.
- ardently — having, expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling; passionate; fervent: an ardent vow; ardent love.
- army ant — any of various mainly tropical American predatory ants of the subfamily Dorylinae, which live in temporary nests and travel in vast hordes preying on other animals
- arrantly — downright; thorough; unmitigated; notorious: an arrant fool.
- arraying — Present participle of array.
- aryanize — (in Nazi ideology) to purge (politics and society) of all non-Aryan elements or people; make characteristically Aryan
- assaying — to examine or analyze: to assay a situation; to assay an event.
- assyrian — an inhabitant of ancient Assyria
- astyanax — the young son of Hector and Andromache, who was hurled from the walls of Troy by the Greeks
- asyndeta — Plural form of asyndeton.