8-letter words containing y, e, n, t
- ontogeny — the development or developmental history of an individual organism.
- onychite — a type of marble stone
- ornately — elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so: They bought an ornate Louis XIV sofa.
- patently — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- peasanty — having qualities ascribed to traditional country life or people; simple or unsophisticated
- 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.
- plenarty — the state of an endowed church office when occupied
- polytene — denoting a type of giant-size chromosome consisting of many replicated genes in parallel, found esp in Drosophila larvae
- polyteny — the condition of being polytene
- potently — powerful; mighty: a potent fighting force.
- poyntell — a pavement of tile mosaic forming an abstract design.
- printery — (formerly) an establishment for typographic printing.
- re-entry — an act of reentering.
- recently — of late occurrence, appearance, or origin; lately happening, done, made, etc.: recent events; a recent trip.
- renotify — to notify again
- rent boy — A rent boy is a boy or young man who has sex with men for money.
- retronym — a term coined in modification of an original term that was used alone (as acoustic guitar instead of guitar ) to distinguish it from a term referring to a later development (as electric guitar ). Other examples of retronyms are snail mail and analog watch .
- senility — the state of being senile, especially the weakness or mental infirmity of old age.
- serenity — the state or quality of being serene, calm, or tranquil; sereneness.
- serotiny — the quality or condition of being serotine
- shymkent — a city in S Kazakhstan; a major railway junction. Pop: 469 000 (2005 est)
- silently — making no sound; quiet; still: a silent motor.
- snippety — sharp or curt, especially in a supercilious or haughty way; impertinent.
- snottery — snot or filth
- 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.
- stonefly — any of numerous dull-colored primitive aquatic insects of the order Plecoptera, having a distinctive flattened body shape: a major food source for game fish, especially bass and trout, which makes them popular as models for fishing flies.
- studenty — denoting or exhibiting the characteristics believed typical of an undergraduate student
- subentry — an item shown or listed under a main entry, as in bookkeeping.
- suddenty — a sudden or unexpected occurrence, esp an attack
- 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.
- syndetic — serving to unite or connect; connective; copulative.
- syndeton — a syndetic construction
- synectic — the study of creative processes, especially as applied to the solution of problems by a group of diverse individuals.
- 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.
- syntexis — the alteration of magma by assimilation of a different mineral or by melting
- synthase — an enzyme that catalyses a process of synthesis
- tangency — the state of being tangent.
- telegony — a former belief that a sire can influence the characteristics of the progeny of the female parent and subsequent mates.
- tenacity — the quality of being tenacious, or of holding fast; persistence: the amazing tenacity of rumors.
- tenantry — tenants collectively; the body of tenants on an estate.
- tendency — a natural or prevailing disposition to move, proceed, or act in some direction or toward some point, end, or result: the tendency of falling bodies toward the earth.
- tenderly — soft or delicate in substance; not hard or tough: a tender steak.
- tennyson — Alfred, Lord (1st Baron) 1809–92, English poet: poet laureate 1850–92.
- tenotomy — the cutting of a tendon.
- tenpenny — noting a nail 3 inches (7.6 cm) in length. Symbol: 10d.
- tent fly — fly1 (def 22).
- terylene — a synthetic polyester fibre or fabric based on terephthalic acid, characterized by lightness and crease resistance and used for clothing, sheets, ropes, sails, etc
- textonym — (in text messaging) one of two or more words that can be generated by pressing the same combination of numbers on the keypad of a mobile phone