8-letter words containing n, i, y
- benignly — having a kindly disposition; gracious: a benign king.
- benzylic — relating to benzyl
- bigeminy — a heart complaint in which beats occur in pairs
- billycan — Also called billy club. a police officer's club or baton.
- binarity — a principle of analysis requiring that a linguistic system, as a phonological, case, or semantic system, be represented as a set of binary oppositions.
- biphenyl — a white or colourless crystalline solid used as a heat-transfer agent, as a fungicide, as an antifungal food preservative (E230) on the skins of citrus fruit, and in the manufacture of dyes, etc. Formula: C6H5C6H5
- bithynia — an ancient country on the Black Sea in NW Asia Minor
- bitingly — nipping; smarting; keen: biting cold; a biting sensation on the tongue.
- bodingly — in a boding manner
- bonytail — a fish, Gila elegans, found in the Colorado River, having flaring fins and a thin caudal peduncle.
- boringly — causing or marked by boredom: a boring discussion; to have a boring time.
- bovinity — the state of being bovine
- bowingly — in a curved manner
- brindley — James. 1716–72, British canal builder, who constructed (1759–61) the Bridgewater Canal, the first in England
- brinkley — David, 1920–2003, U.S. broadcast journalist.
- brittany — a region of NW France, the peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay: settled by Celtic refugees from Wales and Cornwall during the Anglo-Saxon invasions; disputed between England and France until 1364
- bronzify — to make into bronze
- brynhild — a Valkyrie won as the wife of Gunnar by Sigurd who wakes her from an enchanted sleep: corresponds to Brunhild in the Nibelungenlied
- bullying — the intimidation of weaker people
- bunchily — in a bunchy manner
- buy into — If you buy into a company or an organization, you buy part of it, often in order to gain some control of it.
- by jingo — an exclamation of surprise
- by-liner — a writer whose work is accompanied by a by-line
- byrlakin — a mild oath
- byronism — of or relating to Lord Byron.
- caddying — Present participle of caddy.
- calycine — relating to, belonging to, or resembling a calyx
- candidly — frank; outspoken; open and sincere: a candid critic.
- candying — any of a variety of confections made with sugar, syrup, etc., often combined with chocolate, fruit, nuts, etc.
- caninity — the quality or state of being canine
- cantigny — a village in N France, S of Amiens: first major battle of U.S. forces in World War I, May 1918.
- caringly — In a caring manner.
- carry-in — of or relating to a type of after-sales service in which the customer must take the product to the service provider for repair
- carrying — to take or support from one place to another; convey; transport: He carried her for a mile in his arms. This elevator cannot carry more than ten people.
- centiday — One one-hundredth (1/100) of one day; that is, 14 minutes and 24 seconds.
- chancily — In a chancy manner.
- chimneys — Plural form of chimney.
- chunkily — In a chunky way.
- chymosin — (enzyme) The proteolytic enzyme rennin.
- cinerary — holding or intended for ashes, especially the ashes of cremated bodies: a cinerary urn.
- cinnamyl — a univalent radical of cinnamic compounds
- clinally — Biology. the gradual change in certain characteristics exhibited by members of a series of adjacent populations of organisms of the same species.
- conceity — full of conceit
- congiary — (in ancient Rome) a gift from the emperor to the people or soldiers
- conicity — the state of being conical
- cooingly — In a cooing way.
- cousinly — like or befitting a cousin.
- cousinry — a collection of cousins
- coveying — Present participle of covey.
- crankily — In a cranky manner.