8-letter words containing n, y, o
- falconry — the sport of hunting with falcons, hawks, eagles, etc.; hawking.
- fashiony — of or relating to fashion; fashionable; trendy
- fly into — If you fly into a bad temper or a panic, you suddenly become very angry or anxious and show this in your behaviour.
- flyblown — covered with flyblows: flyblown meat.
- foo yong — a Chinese dish made of eggs mixed with chicken, crab meat, etc, and cooked like an omelette
- foraying — a quick raid, usually for the purpose of taking plunder: Vikings made a foray on the port.
- foundery — Alternative form of foundry.
- frozenly — While, or as if, frozen; in a manner that is cold, unfeeling, unmoving, etc.
- genotype — the genetic makeup of an organism or group of organisms with reference to a single trait, set of traits, or an entire complex of traits.
- geognosy — Archaic. a science dealing with the constituent parts of the earth, its envelope of air and water, its crust, and the condition of its interior.
- geomancy — divination by geographic features or by figures or lines.
- glorying — Present participle of glory.
- gluttony — excessive eating and drinking.
- glycogen — a white, tasteless polysaccharide, (C 6 H 10 O 5) n , molecularly similar to starch, constituting the principal carbohydrate storage material in animals and occurring chiefly in the liver, in muscle, and in fungi and yeasts.
- glyconic — (of a line of verse) consisting of three trochees and one dactyl
- goldenly — In a golden manner.
- gonocyte — an oocyte or spermatocyte
- gryphons — Plural form of gryphon.
- guaynabo — a city in N Puerto Rico, SE of Bayamón.
- gynaeco- — relating to women; female
- gynecoid — of or like a woman.
- gynobase — an elevation of the receptacle of a flower, bearing the gynoecium.
- gynoecia — Plural form of gynoecium.
- gyration — the act of gyrating; circular or spiral motion; revolution; rotation; whirling.
- gyrodyne — A kind of VTOL aircraft with a helicopter rotor-like system driven by its engine for takeoff and landing, as well as one or more conventional propellers to provide forward thrust during cruising flight.
- halcyone — a third-magnitude star in the constellation Taurus: brightest star in the Pleiades.
- halcyons — Plural form of halcyon.
- heavy on — using large quantities of
- hegemony — leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others, as in a confederation.
- henryson — Robert. ?1430–?1506, Scottish poet. His works include Testament of Cresseid (1593), a sequel to Chaucer's Troilus and Cressida, the 13 Moral Fables of Esope the Phrygian, and the pastoral dialogue Robene and Makyne
- hobnobby — tending to hobnob or characterized by hobnobbing
- hogmanay — the eve of New Year's Day.
- hogtying — to tie (an animal) with all four feet together.
- hologyny — the inheritance of genetic traits through females only
- 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
- holy one — God. Isa. 10:20.
- holyness — Alternative spelling of holiness.
- 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
- honestly — in an honest manner.
- honeybee — any bee that collects and stores honey, especially Apis mellifera.
- honeybun — A type of bun or pastry sweetened with honey.
- honeydew — honeydew melon.
- honeyful — full of honey
- honeying — Present participle of honey.