8-letter words containing n, y, m
- gymkhana — a field day held for equestrians, consisting of exhibitions of horsemanship and much pageantry.
- gymnasia — a plural of gymnasium2 .
- gymnasts — Plural form of gymnast.
- gymnical — Alternative form of gymnic.
- gynecium — gynoecium.
- handyman — a person hired to do various small jobs, especially in the maintenance of an apartment building, office building, or the like.
- handymen — Plural form of handyman.
- hegemony — leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others, as in a confederation.
- hegumeny — the office of a hegumen
- hogmanay — the eve of New Year's Day.
- holonymy — (countable, semantics) A semantic relation that exists between a term denoting a whole (the holonym) and a term denoting a part that pertains to the whole (the meronym).
- holy man — priest, spiritual leader
- homodyne — of or relating to reception by a device that generates a varying voltage of the same or nearly the same frequency as the incoming carrier wave and combines it with the incoming signal for detection.
- homogeny — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a common origin.
- homogony — state of being homogonous.
- homonyms — Phonetics. a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air; a homophone (def 1).
- homonymy — homonymous state.
- homotony — the condition of being homotonic
- humanely — characterized by tenderness, compassion, and sympathy for people and animals, especially for the suffering or distressed: humane treatment of prisoners.
- humanity — all human beings collectively; the human race; humankind.
- huysmans — Joris Karl [zhoh-rees kahrl] /ʒoʊˈris kɑrl/ (Show IPA), (Charles Marie Georges Huysmans) 1848–1907, French novelist.
- hymeneal — of or relating to marriage.
- hymenean — A hymn, song or poem in honour of a wedding; a hymeneal.
- hymenial — relating to the layer of certain fungi which bears spores, composed of asci or basidia
- hymenium — the sporogenous layer in a fungus, composed of asci or basidia often interspersed with various sterile structures, as paraphyses.
- hymnally — In a hymnal way.
- hymnbook — (British) A book containing a collection of hymns.
- hymnists — Plural form of hymnist.
- hymnless — having no hymn
- hymnlike — Resembling a hymn in form or sound.
- hypernym — superordinate (def 4).
- hyponyms — Plural form of hyponym.
- hyponymy — the state or quality of being a hyponym, a term that denotes a subcategory of a more general class: A relationship of hyponymy exists between “dog” and “animal.”.
- ignominy — disgrace; dishonor; public contempt.
- imitancy — a tendency to imitate
- immunity — the state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease or the like.
- implying — to indicate or suggest without being explicitly stated: His words implied a lack of faith.
- impunity — exemption from punishment.
- infirmly — In an infirm manner; feebly.
- intimacy — the state of being intimate.
- intimity — the quality of being intimate or private
- jemmying — Present participle of jemmy.
- jessamyn — a female given name, form of Jasmine.
- jimdandy — (dated, slang) A fine or excellent person; a crackerjack.
- jimmying — a short crowbar.
- kamyshin — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Volgograd, on the Volga River.
- komensky — Jan Amos [Czech yahn ah-maws] /Czech yɑn ˈɑ mɔs/ (Show IPA), Comenius, John Amos.
- lambency — the quality of being lambent.
- laywoman — a woman who is not a member of the clergy.
- laywomen — a woman who is not a member of the clergy.