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8-letter words containing n, o, m, y

  • monopody — a measure consisting of one foot.
  • monopoly — exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices. Compare duopoly, oligopoly.
  • monosemy — The property of having only one meaning.
  • monosomy — The condition of having a diploid chromosome complement in which one (usually the X) chromosome lacks its homologous partner.
  • monotony — wearisome uniformity or lack of variety, as in occupation or scenery.
  • monotype — the only print made from a metal or glass plate on which a picture is painted in oil color, printing ink, or the like.
  • monstery — Resembling a monster.
  • monterey — a city in W California, on Monterey Bay: the capital of California until 1847.
  • mooneyes — Plural form of mooneye.
  • mopingly — in a moping or dejected manner
  • mordancy — the quality of being mordant; sharpness.
  • mornynge — Obsolete spelling of morning.
  • moronity — Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment: I wonder why they elected that narrow-minded moron to Congress.
  • moseying — Present participle of mosey.
  • movingly — capable of or having movement: a moving object.
  • mulroney — (Martin) Brian, born 1939, Canadian political leader: prime minister 1984–93.
  • myatonia — deficient muscle tone.
  • mylonite — Geology. a rock that has been crushed and sheared to such an extent that its original texture has been destroyed.
  • myogenic — originating in muscle, as an impulse or sensation.
  • myomancy — a form of divination by observing mice
  • myonemes — Plural form of myoneme.
  • myotonia — tonic muscle spasm or muscular rigidity.
  • myotonic — Of or pertaining to myotonia.
  • myrmidon — Classical Mythology. one of the warlike people of ancient Thessaly who accompanied Achilles to the Trojan War.
  • neomycin — an antibiotic produced by an actinomycete, Streptomyces fradiae, administered orally or locally, used chiefly for skin, urinary tract, and eye infections and as a surgical antiseptic.
  • nomarchy — one of the provinces into which modern Greece is divided.
  • nomogeny — a law or belief that life originated from a natural process instead of a miraculous process
  • nomology — the science of law or laws.
  • nonempty — (of a set, group, collection, etc.) containing at least one element.
  • nonmoney — not involving money
  • noometry — a term used by the satirical novelist Thomas Love Peacock to mean 'measurement of the mind'
  • normalcy — the quality or condition of being normal, as the general economic, political, and social conditions of a nation; normality: After months of living in a state of tension, all yearned for a return to normalcy.
  • normally — in a normal or regular way: The wound is healing normally.
  • normandy — a region in N France along the English Channel: invaded and settled by Scandinavians in the 10th century, becoming a duchy in a.d. 911; later a province, the capital of which was Rouen; Allied invasion in World War II began here June 6, 1944.
  • nymphoid — Of or pertaining to a nymph.
  • olympian — pertaining to Mount Olympus or dwelling thereon, as the gods of classical Greece.
  • omnivory — the state of being omnivorous
  • oncotomy — the surgical removal of a tumour
  • one-many — (of a relation) having the property that an element may be assigned to several elements but that given an element, only one may be assigned to it.
  • onychium — a small fern plant of Old World tropics and subtropics
  • overmany — an excess of people
  • oxymoron — a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”.
  • 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.
  • paronymy — a play on words
  • patronym — patronymic (defs 3, 4).
  • polyonym — a word with the same meaning as another word; synonym
  • randomly — proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern: the random selection of numbers.
  • retronym — a term coined in modification of an original term that was used alone (as acoustic guitar instead of guitar ) to distinguish it from a term referring to a later development (as electric guitar ). Other examples of retronyms are snail mail and analog watch .
  • scammony — a twining, Asian convolvulus, Convolvulus scammonia.
  • skyrmion — a particle consisting of a magnetic field surrounding a group of atoms
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