9-letter words containing n, y, o
- brythonic — the S group of Celtic languages, consisting of Welsh, Cornish, and Breton
- bunny hop — a jump executed with the feet held tightly together and the knees bent
- buoyantly — in a happy, confident manner
- by a nose — by the length of the animal's nose in horse racing, etc.
- byrewoman — a woman who works in a byre
- bytownite — a rare plagioclase found in alkaline igneous rocks
- cabin boy — a boy who waits on the officers and passengers of a ship
- cacophony — You can describe a loud, unpleasant mixture of sounds as a cacophony.
- calcedony — Alt form chalcedony.
- canopying — The activity of going through the canopy of a forest on a zipline.
- canyoneer — a person who explores canyons
- canyoning — the sport of travelling down a river situated in a canyon by a variety of means including scrambling, floating, swimming, and abseiling
- carnivory — the eating of animal flesh
- carnosity — an abnormal fleshy protrusion growing on any part of the body
- cartooney — Misspelling of cartoony.
- cautionry — the position or function of a surety, a person who protects and takes responsibility for another person
- ceromancy — divination by interpreting the significance of shapes formed when melted wax is dropped into water
- ceylonese — of or relating to Ceylon or its inhabitants
- ceylonite — a dark blue or black form of spinel
- chatoyant — having changeable lustre; twinkling
- chernobyl — a town in N Ukraine; site of a nuclear power station accident in 1986
- chironomy — the craft or artistry of moving the hands by following a standard or formula in relation to theatrical, oratory, or musical performance
- chokingly — in a strangling, suffocating, or choking manner
- chomskyan — of or relating to Noam Chomsky or his linguistic theories, especially to transformational-generative grammar.
- chondrify — to become or convert into cartilage
- chrononym — (semiotics) A term for a specific period of time, such as
- cinnamony — reminiscent of cinnamon
- city-born — born in a city.
- claystone — a compact very fine-grained rock consisting of consolidated clay particles
- claytonia — any low-growing North American succulent portulacaceous plant of the genus Claytonia
- clonality — The fact or condition of being genetically identical, as to a parent, sibling, or other biological source.
- clonicity — of or relating to clonus.
- clonotype — (taxonomy) A herbarium specimen made from plants vegetatively propagated from (and thus clones of) the same plant from which a type specimen was made.
- cloyingly — In a cloying manner; with distasteful excess.
- cnidocyst — a nematocyst.
- coaxingly — to attempt to influence by gentle persuasion, flattery, etc.; cajole: He coaxed her to sing, but she refused.
- cob money — crude silver coins issued in the Spanish colonies of the New World from about 1600 until 1820
- coccygian — of or relating to the coccyx
- cockneyfy — to cause (one's speech, manners, etc) to fit the stereotyped idea of a cockney
- cocoonery — a place where silkworms feed and make cocoons
- codifying — Present participle of codify.
- coenocyte — a mass of protoplasm containing many nuclei and enclosed by a cell wall: occurs in many fungi and some algae
- coenzymes — Plural form of coenzyme.
- cognately — In a way that is cognate.
- coherency — the act or state of cohering; cohesion.
- cohyponym — a word that is one of multiple hyponyms of another word
- colocynth — a cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Citrullus colocynthis, of the Mediterranean region and Asia, having bitter-tasting fruit
- colonelcy — the rank, position, or status of a colonel.
- colophony — rosin
- community — The community is all the people who live in a particular area or place.