8-letter words containing n, y
- blazonry — the art or process of describing heraldic arms in proper form
- bodanzky — Artur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1877–1939, Austrian opera director and orchestra conductor: in the U.S. after 1915.
- bodingly — in a boding manner
- body-con — a style of skintight clothing that emphasizes the contours of the body
- bogeyman — A bogeyman is someone whose ideas or actions are disapproved of by some people, and who is described by them as evil or unpleasant in order to make other people afraid.
- bone dry — If you say that something is bone dry, you are emphasizing that it is very dry indeed.
- bone-dry — very dry.
- boneyard — a cemetery; graveyard
- bonytail — a fish, Gila elegans, found in the Colorado River, having flaring fins and a thin caudal peduncle.
- boongary — a tree kangaroo, Dendrolagus lumholtzi, of northeastern Queensland
- boringly — causing or marked by boredom: a boring discussion; to have a boring time.
- bothyman — a person who lives in a bothy
- boundary — The boundary of an area of land is an imaginary line that separates it from other areas.
- bovinity — the state of being bovine
- bowingly — in a curved manner
- bowyangs — a pair of strings or straps secured round each trouser leg below the knee, worn esp by sheep-shearers and other labourers
- boy band — A boy band is a band consisting of young men who sing pop music and dance. Boy bands are especially popular with teenage girls.
- brazenly — shameless or impudent: brazen presumption.
- brazenry — the quality of being brazen or an example of brazenness
- brindley — James. 1716–72, British canal builder, who constructed (1759–61) the Bridgewater Canal, the first in England
- brinkley — David, 1920–2003, U.S. broadcast journalist.
- brittany — a region of NW France, the peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay: settled by Celtic refugees from Wales and Cornwall during the Anglo-Saxon invasions; disputed between England and France until 1364
- bronzify — to make into bronze
- brooklyn — a borough of New York City, on the SW end of Long Island. Pop: 2 465 326 (2000)
- brynhild — a Valkyrie won as the wife of Gunnar by Sigurd who wakes her from an enchanted sleep: corresponds to Brunhild in the Nibelungenlied
- bryozoan — any aquatic invertebrate animal of the phylum Bryozoa, forming colonies of polyps each having a ciliated feeding organ (lophophore)
- bullying — the intimidation of weaker people
- bunchily — in a bunchy manner
- buoyance — the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
- buoyancy — Buoyancy is the ability that something has to float on a liquid or in the air.
- burgoyne — John. 1722–92, British general in the War of American Independence who was forced to surrender at Saratoga (1777)
- burgundy — Burgundy is used to describe things that are purplish-red in colour.
- busyness — the quality or condition of being busy.
- buttyman — a male homosexual
- butylene — any of four alkenes, including isobutylene, having the same formula, C4H8, but differing in properties and structure
- buy into — If you buy into a company or an organization, you buy part of it, often in order to gain some control of it.
- buy-down — a subsidy for a long-term mortgage offered by a third party, as a builder or developer, to lower interest rates for a buyer in the early years of the loan.
- by jingo — an exclamation of surprise
- by turns — You can use by turns to indicate that someone has two particular emotions or qualities, one after the other.
- by-liner — a writer whose work is accompanied by a by-line
- byre-man — a man who raises or tends cows.
- byrlakin — a mild oath
- byronism — of or relating to Lord Byron.
- ca'canny — moderation or wariness
- caconymy — the practice of coining caconyms
- caddying — Present participle of caddy.
- calendry — a place where calendering is carried out
- calycine — relating to, belonging to, or resembling a calyx
- can buoy — a buoy with a flat-topped cylindrical shape above water, marking the left side of a channel leading into a harbour: red in British waters but green (occasionally black) in US waters
- candidly — frank; outspoken; open and sincere: a candid critic.