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9-letter words containing o, n, l, y

  • ethnology — The study of the characteristics of various peoples and the differences and relationships between them.
  • eyes-only — confidential
  • fell pony — a British breed of large and heavy ponies, found in the hills of N England
  • 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.
  • frontally — In a frontal manner.
  • genealogy — a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc.
  • geneology — Misspelling of genealogy.
  • glowingly — incandescent.
  • glycation — (biochemistry) non-enzymatic reaction of a sugar and an amine group of a protein to form a glycoprotein.
  • gnomology — a collection or anthology of gnomes or aphorisms.
  • goadingly — So as to goad or incite.
  • goldeneye — either of two diving ducks, Bucephala clangula, of Eurasia and North America, or B. islandica (Barrow's goldeneye) of North America, having bright yellow eyes.
  • goldfinny — One of two or more species of European labroid fishes, Symphodus melops and Ctenolabrus rupestris.
  • goldsinny — any of various small European wrasses, esp the brightly coloured Ctenolabrus rupestris
  • golomynka — an oily fish found only in Lake Baikal
  • gonyaulax — any marine dinoflagellate of the genus Gonyaulax, sometimes occurring in great numbers and causing red tide.
  • gropingly — In a groping manner; blindly.
  • growingly — becoming greater in quantity, size, extent, or intensity: growing discontent among industrial workers.
  • gun lobby — a group of people who argue for the right of members of the public to be able to own guns
  • gwendolyn — a female given name: from a Welsh word meaning “white.”.
  • gyrfalcon — a large falcon, Falco rusticolus, of arctic and subarctic regions, having white, gray, or blackish color phases: now greatly reduced in number.
  • gyroplane — autogiro.
  • halcyonic — calm; peaceful; tranquil: halcyon weather.
  • halomancy — Divination by use of salt. This is the origin for the superstition of spilled salt.
  • heinously — hateful; odious; abominable; totally reprehensible: a heinous offense.
  • hemolysin — a substance, as an antibody, that in cooperation with complement causes dissolution of red blood cells.
  • hol-unity — A verification tool for UNITY? Version 2.1. E-mail: Flemming Andersen <[email protected]>?
  • hologynic — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in females (opposed to holandric).
  • holy land — Palestine (def 1).
  • holystone — a block of soft sandstone used in scrubbing the decks of a ship.
  • honeyless — without any honey
  • honeylike — Like honey in taste, texture, or appearance.
  • honeywell — (company)   A US company known for its mainframes and operating systems. The company's history is long and tortuous, with many mergers, acquisitions and name changes. A company formed on 1886-04-23 to make furnace regulators eventually merged in 1927 with another company formed in 1904 by a young plumbing and heating engineer named Mark Honeywell who was perfecting the heat generator. A 1955 joint venture with Raytheon Corp., called Datamatic Corporation, marked Honeywell's entry into the computer business. Their first computer was the D-1000. In 1960 Honeywell bought out Raytheon's interest and the name changed to Electronic Data Processing (EDP) then in 1963 it was officially renamed Honeywell Inc. In 1970 Honeywell merged its computer business with General Electric's to form Honeywell Information Systems. In 1986 a joint venture with the french company Bull and japanese NEC Corporation created Honeywell Bull. By 1991 Honeywell had withdrawn from the computer business, focussing more on aeropspace. See also: brain-damaged.
  • honorably — in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright: They were all honorable men.
  • howlingly — producing or uttering a howling noise: a howling mob.
  • huey long — Crawford Williamson [wil-yuh m-suh n] /ˈwɪl yəm sən/ (Show IPA), 1815–78, U.S. surgeon.
  • hyalonema — a species of sponge with a long stem made up of long, twisted glass-like fibres
  • hydrolant — an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Atlantic Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
  • hymnology — the study of hymns, their history, classification, etc.
  • hypnoidal — characterizing a state that resembles mild hypnosis but that is usually induced by other than hypnotic means.
  • hypnology — the science dealing with the phenomena of sleep.
  • ichnology — the branch of paleontology concerned with the study of fossilized tracks, trails, burrows, borings, or other trace fossils as evidence of the occurrence or behavior of the organisms that produced them.
  • iconology — the historical analysis and interpretive study of symbols or images and their contextual significance; iconography.
  • indolency — (obsolete) The lack of pain; absence of pain.
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