9-letter words containing y, c, o, n, e
- oenomancy — a type of prophecy or foretelling that involves analysing wine and its qualities and characteristics
- once-only — never to be repeated
- 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.
- opponency — an act or instance of opposing.
- oxycodone — an opioid analgesic, C 18 H 21 NO 4 , used to treat moderate to severe pain.
- phenocopy — the observed result of an environmentally induced, nongenetic alteration of a phenotype to a form that resembles the expression of a known genetic mutation.
- polygenic — one of a group of nonallelic genes that together control a quantitative characteristic in an organism.
- polynices — a son of Oedipus and Jocasta and brother of Eteocles and Antigone on whose behalf the Seven against Thebes were organized.
- polypneic — characterized by polypnea
- pycnosome — a body type characterized by stockiness
- pyrogenic — producing or produced by heat or fever.
- secondary — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- surgeoncy — the office, duties, or position of a surgeon, esp in the army or navy
- syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
- synecious — synoicous.
- synoecism — (in ancient Greece) the union of towns under one capital city
- synoecize — (in ancient Greece) to unite under one capital city
- theomancy — divination or prophecy by an oracle or by people directly inspired by a god
- tycoonate — the office or position of a tycoon
- tycoonery — a group of tycoons
- xenocryst — a rock or crystal engulfed by magma and retained as an inclusion in the resulting igneous rock.
- xylocaine — lidocaine, often used as a local anesthetic by dentists and plastic surgeons
- yourcenar — Marguerite (Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour) [krey-uh n-koo r] /ˌkreɪ ənˈkʊər/ (Show IPA), 1903–87, U.S. poet and novelist, born in Belgium.
- zootechny — the science of breeding animals
- zymogenic — of or relating to a zymogen