8-letter words containing y, e, a, n
- open day — An open day is a day on which members of the public are encouraged to visit a particular school, university, or other institution to see what it is like.
- orangery — a warm place, as a greenhouse, in which orange trees are cultivated in cool climates.
- ornately — elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so: They bought an ornate Louis XIV sofa.
- overmany — an excess of people
- panderly — in the manner of a pander
- panegyry — a panegyric
- papyrine — paper-like; papyral
- patently — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- pay zone — A pay zone is a reservoir or part of a reservoir that contains hydrocarbons that can be extracted economically.
- payphone — a public telephone requiring that the caller deposit coins or use a credit card to pay for a call.
- peasanty — having qualities ascribed to traditional country life or people; simple or unsophisticated
- peccancy — sinning; guilty of a moral offense.
- pedantry — the character, qualities, practices, etc., of a pedant, especially undue display of learning.
- penality — of, relating to, or involving punishment, as for crimes or offenses.
- pernancy — a taking or receiving, as of the rents or profits of an estate.
- picayune — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- plenarty — the state of an endowed church office when occupied
- polypnea — rapid breathing; panting.
- polyxena — a daughter of King Priam of Troy, who was sacrificed on the command of Achilles' ghost
- pygmaean — pygmy (defs 6, 7).
- pyranose — any monosaccharide having a pyran ring structure.
- pyrenean — of or relating to the Pyrenees or their inhabitants
- readying — completely prepared or in fit condition for immediate action or use: troops ready for battle; Dinner is ready.
- reagency — the quality or condition of being a reagent
- relaying — re-lay.
- saguenay — a river in SE Canada, in Quebec, flowing SE from Lake St. John to the St. Lawrence. 125 miles (200 km) long.
- saliency — salience.
- sapiency — having or showing great wisdom or sound judgment.
- say when — to state when an action is to be stopped or begun, as when someone is pouring a drink
- seacunny — a steersman or quartermaster in a ship manned by lascars
- seminary — a special school providing education in theology, religious history, etc., primarily to prepare students for the priesthood, ministry, or rabbinate.
- sexenary — senary.
- shenyang — Pinyin, Wade-Giles. a province in NE China. 58,301 sq. mi. (151,000 sq. km). Capital: Shenyang.
- smyrnean — of or relating to Smyrna, Turkey.
- snailery — a place where snails are bred
- snakefly — any neuropterous insect of the family Raphidiidae, of western North America, having an elongated prothorax resembling a neck.
- sneakily — like or suggestive of a sneak; furtive; deceitful.
- sneaksby — an insignificant or cowardly person
- spyplane — a military aeroplane used to spy on an enemy
- steinway — Henry Engelhard [eng-guh l-hahrd,, -hahrt] /ˈɛŋ gəlˌhɑrd,, -ˌhɑrt/ (Show IPA), (Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg) 1797–1871, U.S. piano manufacturer, born in Germany.
- sternway — Nautical. the movement of a vessel backward, or stern foremost.
- swannery — a place where swans are raised.
- sycamine — a tree mentioned in the New Testament, probably the black mulberry.
- sylvaner — a white grape grown in the Alsace region of France and in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria.
- symantec — (company) Software manufacturer of utility and development applications for Windows and Macintosh platforms. Products include ACT!, Norton Utilities, Norton AntiVirus, Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh, Symantec Cafe.
- synaphea — a continuity of rhythm throughout a poem
- synapses — a region where nerve impulses are transmitted and received, encompassing the axon terminal of a neuron that releases neurotransmitters in response to an impulse, an extremely small gap across which the neurotransmitters travel, and the adjacent membrane of an axon, dendrite, or muscle or gland cell with the appropriate receptor molecules for picking up the neurotransmitters.
- synechia — any adhesion of parts of the body, as of the iris to the cornea.
- syntaxes — Linguistics. the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language. the study of the patterns of formation of sentences and phrases from words. the rules or patterns so studied: English syntax. a presentation of these: a syntax of English. an instance of these: the syntax of a sentence.
- synthase — an enzyme that catalyses a process of synthesis