9-letter words containing n, y, o, r
- flyperson — (theatre) Someone who operates a fly system in a theatre.
- forlornly — desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance.
- forty-one — a cardinal number, 40 plus 1.
- fourpenny — Carpentry. noting a nail 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) long. noting certain fine nails 1.375 inches (3.5 cm) long. Symbol: 4d.
- frenotomy — The surgical cutting of the frenum.
- frontally — In a frontal manner.
- garryowen — (rugby union) A high short punt onto or behind the defending team.
- go hungry — If people go hungry, they do not have enough food to eat.
- gray iron — pig iron or cast iron having much of its carbon in the form of graphite and exhibiting a gray fracture.
- grayhound — one of a breed of tall, slender, short-haired dogs, noted for its keen sight and swiftness.
- graystone — (uncountable) A type of gray, volcanic rock, typically containing feldspar and iron.
- greyhound — one of a breed of tall, slender, short-haired dogs, noted for its keen sight and swiftness.
- greystone — a grey igneous rock of volcanic origin
- gropingly — In a groping manner; blindly.
- growingly — becoming greater in quantity, size, extent, or intensity: growing discontent among industrial workers.
- gynocracy — gynarchy.
- gynophore — the elongated stalk of a pistil.
- gyrations — Plural form of gyration.
- gyrfalcon — a large falcon, Falco rusticolus, of arctic and subarctic regions, having white, gray, or blackish color phases: now greatly reduced in number.
- gyromancy — a method of prediction or prophecy in which a person moves round and round in a circle and the place at which they fall to the ground is said to be highly significant
- gyroplane — autogiro.
- handywork — Dated form of handiwork.
- hawthorny — resembling or characterized by hawthorns
- heteronym — a word spelled the same as another but having a different sound and meaning, as lead (to conduct) and lead (a metal).
- honeybird — Any of several drab honeyguides, of the genus Prodotiscus, from sub-Saharan Africa.
- honeytrap — A stratagem in which irresistible bait is used to lure a victim.
- honeywort — a plant, Cerinthe retorta, of Greece, having bluish-green leaves and purple-tipped yellow flowers.
- honorably — in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright: They were all honorable men.
- honourary — Misspelling of honorary.
- hooraying — Present participle of hooray.
- hornyhead — species of fish
- hornywink — a lapwing
- hydration — any of a class of compounds containing chemically combined water. In the case of some hydrates, as washing soda, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O, the water is loosely held and is easily lost on heating; in others, as sulfuric acid, SO 3 ⋅H 2 O, or H 2 SO 4 , it is strongly held as water of constitution.
- hydrazone — any of a class of compounds containing the group >C=NNH 2 .
- hydrogens — Plural form of hydrogen.
- hydrolant — an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Atlantic Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
- hydronaut — a person trained to work in deep-sea vessels for research and rescue purposes.
- hydronium — (inorganic chemistry) the hydrated hydrogen ion, H3O+.
- hydrovane — a vane on a seaplane conferring stability on water (a sponson) or facilitating take off (a hydrofoil)
- hydrozoan — any freshwater or marine coelenterate of the class Hydrozoa, including free-swimming or attached types, as the hydra, in which one developmental stage, either the polyp or medusa, is absent, and colonial types, as the Portuguese man-of-war, in which both medusa and polyp stages are present in a single colony.
- hydrozoon — (zoology) One of the Hydrozoa.
- hypernova — (astronomy) The gravitational collapse of a massive star to form a black hole.
- hyperonym — (linguistics) Hypernym; superordinate term.
- iatrogeny — a disease caused by medical intervention or treatment
- in theory — in principle
- incensory — Thurible, censer.
- inharmony — Lack of harmony.
- inventory — a complete listing of merchandise or stock on hand, work in progress, raw materials, finished goods on hand, etc., made each year by a business concern.
- ionotropy — the reversible interconversion of a pair of organic isomers as a result of the migration of an ionic part of the molecule
- irenology — the study of peace