9-letter words containing n, y, o
- longevity — a long individual life; great duration of individual life: Our family is known for its longevity.
- longingly — strong, persistent desire or craving, especially for something unattainable or distant: filled with longing for home.
- loomingly — So as to loom.
- loony bin — an insane asylum or the psychiatric ward of a hospital.
- lord lyon — the chief herald of Scotland
- lounsbury — Thomas Raynesford [reynz-ferd] /ˈreɪnz fərd/ (Show IPA), 1838–1915, U.S. linguist and educator.
- low-lying — lying near sea level or the ground surface. low-lying land.
- loyalness — faithful to one's sovereign, government, or state: a loyal subject.
- lymington — a market town in S England, in SW Hampshire, on the Solent: yachting centre and holiday resort. Pop: 14 227 (2001)
- lynch mob — A lynch mob is an angry crowd of people who want to kill someone without a trial, because they believe that person has committed a crime.
- lyon bean — a vine, Mucuna niveum, of southern Asia and the Philippines, having showy clusters of white flowers and whitish hairy pods, grown widely as a forage crop.
- lyonnaise — (of food, especially fried potatoes) cooked with pieces of onion.
- lyonnesse — the mythical region where Sir Tristram was born, located near Cornwall in SW England and supposed to have been submerged by the sea.
- lysocline — the depth of the ocean at which the solubility of calcium carbonate increases substantially.
- lysogenic — harboring a temperate virus as a prophage or plasmid.
- lyttelton — Humphrey. 1921–2008, British jazz trumpeter and band leader who influenced the British revival of New Orleans jazz
- mad money — a small sum of money carried or kept in reserve for minor expenses, emergencies, or impulse purchases.
- main body — the hull, as distinguished from the rest of a ship.
- mandatory — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- mandylion — a loose garment formerly worn over armour
- manometry — an instrument for measuring the pressure of a fluid, consisting of a tube filled with a liquid, the level of the liquid being determined by the fluid pressure and the height of the liquid being indicated on a scale.
- manoscopy — the measurement of the densities of gases
- mansionry — (obsolete) The state of dwelling or residing; occupancy.
- mantyhose — a one-piece clinging garment covering the body from the waist to the feet, worn by men
- manyogana — An ancient/early Japanese syllabary in which Chinese characters represented sounds instead of their regular meaning as they again do today in the form of kanji; it was the predecessor of hiragana and katakana, present Japanese phonetic alphabets; used in the Manyosh\u016b, a poetic anthology.
- matrimony — the state of being married; marriage: He was married in 1870 and lived in matrimony 12 years.
- meronymic — Relating to a meronym or meronyms.
- mesocrany — the state of having a medium breadth of skull
- metagnomy — (rare) divination.
- metonymic — Of, or relating to, a word or phrase that names an object from a single characteristic of it or of a closely related object.
- mind-body — taking into account the physiological, psychic, and spiritual connections between the state of the body and that of the mind: mind-body medicine.
- minor key — a key or mode based on a minor scale.
- mirrnyong — (Australia, archaeology) A mound of cooking debris accumulated by Aborigines; a kitchen midden.
- misogynic — reflecting or exhibiting hatred, dislike, mistrust, or mistreatment of women.
- mitomycin — any of the antibiotics that come from Streptomyces caespitosus
- mnemosyne — the ancient Greek goddess of memory, a daughter of Uranus and Gaea and the mother by Zeus of the Muses.
- moanfully — in a moaning and mournful manner
- moaningly — With a moaning sound.
- mockingly — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- modernity — the quality of being modern.
- modifying — Make partial or minor changes to (something), typically so as to improve it or to make it less extreme.
- moilingly — in a moiling, struggling or slogging manner
- momentary — lasting but a moment; very brief; fleeting: a momentary glimpse.
- monastery — a house or place of residence occupied by a community of persons, especially monks, living in seclusion under religious vows.
- mondayize — to move (a statutory holiday, such as the Queen's birthday) to the nearest Monday in order to secure a long weekend
- money box — a cashbox.
- money pit — sth continually costing money
- money-bag — a bag for money.
- moneybags — a bag for money.
- moneyless — any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.