9-letter words containing n, y, o
- dynamotor — an electrical machine having a single magnetic field and two independent armature windings of which one acts as a motor and the other a generator: used to convert direct current from a battery into alternating current
- dynorphin — (biochemistry) Any of a class of opioid peptides that arise from the precursor protein prodynorphin.
- dysgnosia — any intellectual impairment.
- dysphonia — any disturbance of normal vocal function.
- dysphonic — any disturbance of normal vocal function.
- dyspnoeal — Pertaining to, or of the nature of dyspnoea; in connexion with dyspnoea.
- dyspnoeic — Alternative spelling of dyspneic.
- dystopian — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- easygoing — going easily, as a horse.
- echoingly — In an echoing way.
- eloquency — (nonstandard) Eloquence.
- embodying — Present participle of embody.
- embryonal — Embryonic.
- embryonic — Of or relating to an embryo.
- empanoply — to put armour on
- employing — Present participle of employ.
- emunctory — Pertaining to the elimination of waste from the body.
- endocytic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to endocytosis.
- endolymph — The fluid in the membranous labyrinth of the ear.
- endophagy — cannibalism within the same group or tribe
- endophyte — A plant, especially a fungus, that lives inside another plant.
- endoscopy — (medicine) the examination of a bodily orifice, canal or organ using an endoscope.
- endostyle — (zoology) A longitudinal ciliated groove on the ventral wall of the pharynx which produces mucus to gather food particles, found in urochordates and cephalochordates and in the larvae of lampreys.
- engyscope — (in the 17th and 18th centuries) a microscope
- enjoyable — (of an activity or occasion) giving delight or pleasure.
- enjoyably — In an enjoyable manner.
- enjoyment — The state or process of taking pleasure in something.
- ennealogy — A speech or treatise consisting of nine parts or chapters; any work in nine parts (compare trilogy (3-part), tetralogy (4-part), etc.).
- entophyte — endophyte
- enviously — In an envious manner or to an envious degree.
- epigynous — (of flowers) having the receptacle enclosing and fused with the gynoecium so that the other floral parts arise above it
- epirogeny — epeirogeny
- eponymous — (of a person) giving their name to something.
- ethnogeny — the branch of ethnology that deals with the origin of races or peoples
- ethnology — The study of the characteristics of various peoples and the differences and relationships between them.
- every one — each person or thing in a group, without exception
- exoenzyme — An enzyme that acts outside the cell that produces it.
- eyeopener — Something that provides a sudden insight, or makes something clear that was previously mysterious.
- eyes-only — confidential
- fancywork — ornamental needlework.
- fell pony — a British breed of large and heavy ponies, found in the hills of N England
- fifty-one — a cardinal number, 50 plus 1.
- flowingly — moving in or as in a stream: flowing water.
- fly front — a flap of material down one side of the front opening of a garment to conceal buttons, fasteners, or the like, as on a coat or dress.
- flyperson — (theatre) Someone who operates a fly system in a theatre.
- foamingly — in a foaming manner
- foiningly — by means of a thrust or push
- fontology — (XEROX PARC) The body of knowledge dealing with the construction and use of new fonts (e.g. for window systems and typesetting software). It has been said that fontology recapitulates file-ogeny. Unfortunately, this reference to the embryological dictum that "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" is not merely a joke. On the Macintosh, for example, System 7 has to go through contortions to compensate for an earlier design error that created a whole different set of abstractions for fonts parallel to "files" and "folders" - ESR
- forlornly — desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance.
- forty-one — a cardinal number, 40 plus 1.