8-letter words containing o, r, i, y
- moronity — Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment: I wonder why they elected that narrow-minded moron to Congress.
- morosity — gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
- myriapod — any arthropod of the group Myriapoda, having an elongated segmented body with numerous paired, jointed legs, formerly classified as a class comprising the centipedes and millipedes.
- myrmidon — Classical Mythology. one of the warlike people of ancient Thessaly who accompanied Achilles to the Trojan War.
- nitrosyl — nitroso.
- nitroxyl — the chemical compound HNO
- nondairy — being a substitute for milk or milk products; containing no dairy ingredients: nondairy whipped topping for the pie.
- nondiary — Not of or relating to a diary.
- nonhairy — Not hairy.
- nonlyric — (of poetry) not in a lyric style
- obituary — a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.
- omnivory — the state of being omnivorous
- orbitary — the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
- ordinary — of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.
- oriskany — a village in central New York, near Utica: battle 1777.
- overwily — too crafty
- oximetry — the measuring of oxygen saturation of the blood by means of an oximeter.
- petitory — requesting or entreating
- pigeonry — a loft for keeping pigeons in; dovecote; pigeon house
- pityroid — scaly; resembling bran.
- podiatry — the care of the human foot, especially the diagnosis and treatment of foot disorders.
- polarity — Physics. the property or characteristic that produces unequal physical effects at different points in a body or system, as a magnet or storage battery. the positive or negative state in which a body reacts to a magnetic, electric, or other field.
- polybrid — a hybrid plant with more than two parental groups
- polyuria — the passing of an excessive quantity of urine, as in diabetes, in certain nervous diseases, etc.
- porosity — the state or quality of being porous.
- porridgy — resembling the taste, texture, or appearance of porridge
- primrosy — characteristic of, or resembling, a primrose (esp in colour)
- priority — the state or quality of being earlier in time, occurrence, etc.
- privy to — knowing: sth confidential
- propylic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the propyl group.
- pyranoid — relating to the structure of a pyranose
- pyrenoid — a spherical protein structure found within chloroplasts of certain algae and hornworts.
- pyriform — pear-shaped.
- pyrolize — to subject (a substance) to pyrolysis.
- pyronine — a xanthine dye used for detecting the presence of RNA.
- quixotry — A wild, visionary idea, an eccentric notion or act; a quixotism.
- recodify — to reduce (laws, rules, etc.) to a code.
- remodify — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- renotify — to notify again
- revisory — pertaining to or for the purpose of revision.
- rhyolite — a fine-grained igneous rock rich in silica: the volcanic equivalent of granite.
- ribbonry — ribbons or ribbon work
- ribozyme — a segment of RNA that can act as a catalyst.
- rollicky — rollicking or merry
- rovingly — in a roving manner
- rowdyish — like or characteristic of a rowdy.
- rowdyism — rough, disorderly behavior.
- royalism — the principles of royal government; monarchism
- royalist — a supporter or adherent of a king or royal government, especially in times of rebellion or civil war.
- royalize — make royal