8-letter words containing n, a, y
- imitancy — a tendency to imitate
- in a way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- in stays — in irons (see phrase under iron)
- infantly — (obsolete) Like an infant.
- infantry — soldiers or military units that fight on foot, in modern times typically with rifles, machine guns, grenades, mortars, etc., as weapons.
- inky cap — any mushroom of the genus Coprinus, especially C. atramentarius, characterized by gills that disintegrate into blackish liquid after the spores mature.
- inlaying — Present participle of inlay.
- innately — existing in one from birth; inborn; native: innate musical talent.
- insanely — not sane; not of sound mind; mentally deranged.
- insanity — the condition of being insane; a derangement of the mind. Synonyms: dementia, lunacy, madness, craziness, mania, aberration.
- instancy — quality of being instant; urgency; pressing nature.
- intactly — in an intact manner
- interlay — to lay between; interpose.
- intimacy — the state of being intimate.
- intraday — occurring during a single day.
- inwardly — in or on, or with reference to, the inside or inner part; internally.
- isocyano — containing an isocyano group.
- jackelyn — a female given name.
- janizary — (often initial capital letter) a member of an elite military unit of the Turkish army organized in the 14th century and abolished in 1826 after it revolted against the Sultan.
- jauntily — easy and sprightly in manner or bearing: to walk with a jaunty step.
- jerrycan — A large, flat -sided metal container for storing or transporting liquids, typically gasoline or water.
- jerseyan — a British island in the English Channel: the largest of the Channel Islands. 44 sq. mi. (116 sq. km). Capital: St. Helier.
- jessamyn — a female given name, form of Jasmine.
- jimdandy — (dated, slang) A fine or excellent person; a crackerjack.
- john hay — John Milton, 1838–1905, U.S. statesman and author.
- junkyard — a yard for the collection, storage, and resale of junk.
- kamyshin — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Volgograd, on the Volga River.
- kantikoy — a ceremonial dance of some Native American tribes, often involving sacrifices
- karyotin — chromatin
- kayaking — an Eskimo canoe with a skin cover on a light framework, made watertight by flexible closure around the waist of the occupant and propelled with a double-bladed paddle.
- keneally — Thomas (Michael). born 1935, Australian writer. His novels include the Booker prizewinner Schindler's Ark (1982); other works are The Playmaker (1987), The Great Shame (1998), and The Woman and Her Hero (2007)
- kenyatta — Jomo [joh-moh] /ˈdʒoʊ moʊ/ (Show IPA), 1893?–1978, Kenyan political leader: president 1964–78.
- keychain — A chain or ring to which a key may be attached.
- knackery — rendering works.
- kootenay — a river flowing from SW Canada through NW Montana and N Idaho, swinging back into Canada to the Columbia River. 400 miles (645 km) long.
- kuan yin — a female Chinese Bodhisattva of compassion, regarded as the protector of women and children and patron of sailors
- kwan-yin — one of the Chinese female Boddhisattvas, noted for her kindness: often considered an aspect of Avalokitesvara.
- kweiyang — Guiyang.
- kyanized — Simple past tense and past participle of kyanize.
- lacunary — Of, pertaining to, or having characteristics of a lacuna.
- lambency — the quality of being lambent.
- lancegay — a lance used in medieval times
- landlady — a woman who owns and leases an apartment, house, land, etc., to others.
- lane-way — a lane
- laneways — Plural form of laneway.
- lang lay — a wire rope in which the lays of the strands and of their component wires are the same.
- langsyne — long since; long ago.
- lanosity — lanate.
- lansbury — George. 1859–1940, British Labour politician, who led the Labour Party in opposition (1931–35). A committed pacifist, he resigned over the party's reaction to Mussolini's seizure of Ethiopia
- lanyards — Plural form of lanyard.