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9-letter words containing n, y, o

  • stenotype — a keyboard machine resembling a typewriter, used in a system of phonetic shorthand.
  • stenotypy — shorthand in which alphabetic letters or types are used to produce shortened forms of words or groups of words.
  • stony pit — a disease of pears, caused by a virus and characterized by deformed, pitted fruit.
  • stornoway — a city in NW Scotland, in the Hebrides.
  • storyline — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
  • strayhorn — William ("Billy") 1915–67, U.S. jazz pianist and composer: collaborator with Duke Ellington.
  • strongyle — any nematode of the family Strongylidae, parasitic as an adult in the intestine of mammals, especially horses.
  • subcolony — a colony established by an existing colony
  • subcounty — a division of a county
  • surgeoncy — the office, duties, or position of a surgeon, esp in the army or navy
  • sycophant — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • symbionts — an organism living in a state of symbiosis.
  • symbolang — Lapidus & Goldstein, 1965. Symbol manipulating Fortran subroutine package for IBM 7094, later CDC 6600.
  • symington — (William) Stuart, 1901–1988, U.S. politician: senator 1952–77.
  • symphonia — any of various medieval musical instruments, as the hurdy-gurdy.
  • symphonic — Music. of, for, pertaining to, or having the character of a symphony or symphony orchestra.
  • synagogue — a Jewish house of worship, often having facilities for religious instruction.
  • synchrony — simultaneous occurrence; synchronism.
  • syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
  • syndromic — Pathology, Psychiatry. a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease, or the like.
  • synecious — synoicous.
  • synedrion — an assembly of judges or representatives
  • synkaryon — a nucleus formed by the fusion of two preexisting nuclei.
  • synodical — of a synod; synodal
  • synodsman — a member of a synod
  • synoecism — (in ancient Greece) the union of towns under one capital city
  • synoecize — (in ancient Greece) to unite under one capital city
  • synoekete — an insect that lives in the nests of social insects, esp ants, without receiving any attentions from the inmates
  • synoicous — having male and female flowers on one head, as in many composite plants.
  • synonymic — a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the language, as happy, joyful, elated. A dictionary of synonyms and antonyms (or opposites), such as Thesaurus.com, is called a thesaurus.
  • synopsize — to make a synopsis of; summarize.
  • synoptist — one of the authors (Matthew, Mark, or Luke) of the synoptic Gospels.
  • synovitic — inflammation of a synovial membrane.
  • synovitis — inflammation of a synovial membrane.
  • synth-pop — a type of pop music in which synthesizers are used to create the dominant sound
  • syntonize — to render syntonic; tune to the same frequency.
  • syntonous — syntonic.
  • syphoning — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
  • tachyonic — characteristic of a tachyon
  • taphonomy — the circumstances and processes of fossilization.
  • tarrytown — a village in SE New York, on the Hudson River: restored home of Washington Irving.
  • tawny owl — a European owl, Strix aluco, having a reddish-brown or grey plumage, black eyes, and a round head
  • tea money — (especially in parts of China) a bribe used to facilitate any business dealing.
  • teknonymy — the practice among certain peoples of renaming a parent after a child.
  • teleonomy — Biology. the principle that the body's structures and functions serve an overall purpose, as in assuring the survival of the organism.
  • telephony — the construction or operation of telephones or telephonic systems.
  • tenuously — thin or slender in form, as a thread.
  • testimony — Law. the statement or declaration of a witness under oath or affirmation, usually in court.
  • thank you — expressing one's gratitude or thanks: a thank-you note.
  • thank-you — expressing one's gratitude or thanks: a thank-you note.
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