9-letter words containing t, o, n, e, y
- northerly — moving, directed, or situated toward the north.
- notoriety — the state, quality, or character of being notorious or widely known: a craze for notoriety.
- nyctalope — a person or animal affected by nyctalopia
- obscenity — the character or quality of being obscene; indecency; lewdness.
- onerosity — burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship: onerous duties.
- open city — a city that, during a war, is officially declared demilitarized and open to occupation, and that will consequently not be defended, in order to spare it, under international law, from bombardment or other military attack.
- operantly — In an operant manner.
- opulently — In an opulent manner.
- ostensory — monstrance.
- oxygenate — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
- oystering — any of several edible, marine, bivalve mollusks of the family Ostreidae, having an irregularly shaped shell, occurring on the bottom or adhering to rocks or other objects in shallow water.
- oysterman — a person who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- pantyhose — (used with a plural verb) a one-piece, skintight garment worn by women, combining panties and stockings.
- pathogeny — the production and development of disease.
- pennywort — any of several plants having round or roundish leaves, as the navelwort.
- pentalogy — a combination of five closely related things, esp (in medicine) closely connected symptoms or (in art) related works of art
- pentapody — a measure consisting of five feet.
- phenotype — the observable constitution of an organism.
- phenytoin — a barbiturate-related substance, C 1 5 H 1 2 N 2 O 2 , used as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of grand mal epilepsy and in focal seizures.
- phonotype — a piece of type bearing a phonetic character or symbol.
- pointedly — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
- polythene — polyethylene.
- prenotify — to notify in advance
- pythoness — a woman believed to be possessed by a soothsaying spirit, as the priestess of Apollo at Delphi.
- routinely — a customary or regular course of procedure.
- seniority — the state of being senior; priority of birth; superior age.
- sixty-one — a cardinal number, 60 plus 1.
- snow tyre — a motor vehicle tyre with deep treads and ridges to give improved grip on snow and ice
- solemnity — the state or character of being solemn; earnestness; gravity; impressiveness: the solemnity of a state funeral.
- solvently — able to pay all just debts.
- sonnetary — relating to sonnets
- stenotype — a keyboard machine resembling a typewriter, used in a system of phonetic shorthand.
- stenotypy — shorthand in which alphabetic letters or types are used to produce shortened forms of words or groups of words.
- storyline — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- strongyle — any nematode of the family Strongylidae, parasitic as an adult in the intestine of mammals, especially horses.
- syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
- synoekete — an insect that lives in the nests of social insects, esp ants, without receiving any attentions from the inmates
- syntonize — to render syntonic; tune to the same frequency.
- tea money — (especially in parts of China) a bribe used to facilitate any business dealing.
- teknonymy — the practice among certain peoples of renaming a parent after a child.
- teleonomy — Biology. the principle that the body's structures and functions serve an overall purpose, as in assuring the survival of the organism.
- telephony — the construction or operation of telephones or telephonic systems.
- tenuously — thin or slender in form, as a thread.
- testimony — Law. the statement or declaration of a witness under oath or affirmation, usually in court.
- the yukon — a territory of NW Canada, on the Beaufort Sea, between the Northwest Territories and Alaska: arctic and mountainous, reaching 5959 m (19 550 ft) at Mount Logan, Canada's highest peak; mineral resources. Capital: Whitehorse. Pop: 33 897 (2011). Area: 536 327 sq km (207 076 sq miles)
- theomancy — divination or prophecy by an oracle or by people directly inspired by a god
- theophany — a manifestation or appearance of God or a god to a person.
- thyroxine — Biochemistry. the thyroid gland hormone that regulates the metabolic rate of the body.
- timenoguy — a taut rope on a ship used to prevent the tangling of lines and riggings
- tinkertoy — a children's toy construction set