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