7-letter words containing y, n, e
- lengthy — having or being of great length; very long: a lengthy journey.
- levying — an imposing or collecting, as of a tax, by authority or force.
- leyland — a town in Lancashire, N England.
- leyline — Alternative spelling of ley line.
- lindley — John, 1799–1865, English botanist.
- lindsey — Ben(jamin Barr) [bahr] /bɑr/ (Show IPA), 1869–1943, U.S. jurist and authority on juvenile delinquency.
- loungey — suggestive of a lounge bar or easy-listening music
- loxygen — liquid oxygen
- lozengy — divided by diagonal lines to form a lattice
- lucency — shining.
- lutyens — Sir Edwin Landseer, 1869–1944, English architect.
- lyncean — of or relating to a lynx; lynxlike.
- lynched — Simple past tense and past participle of lynch.
- lyncher — to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.
- lynches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lynch.
- lynchet — a terrace or ridge formed in prehistoric or medieval times by ploughing a hillside
- lynette — a female given name.
- lysenko — Trofim Denisovich [truh-fyeem dyi-nyee-suh-vyich] /trʌˈfyim dyɪˈnyi sə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1976, Russian biologist and agronomist.
- lysogen — a bacterial cell or strain that has been infected with a temperate virus, one that does not cause destruction of the cell.
- mayence — French name of Mainz.
- mayenne — a department in W France. 2012 sq. mi. (5210 sq. km). Capital: Laval.
- mchenry — a town in NE Illinois.
- menschy — Upstanding; having integrity and responsibility.
- meronym — A term that denotes part of something but which is used to refer to the whole of it, e.g., faces when used to mean people in I see several familiar faces present.
- metonym — a word used in metonymy.
- meynell — Alice Christiana (Thompson) 1850–1922, English poet and essayist.
- mockney — a person who affects a cockney accent
- moneyed — having much money; wealthy.
- moneyer — Archaic. a person employed in the authorized coining of money.
- monkery — the mode of life, behavior, etc., of monks; monastic life.
- monkeys — A small to medium-sized primate that typically has a long tail, most kinds of which live in trees in tropical countries.
- monoecy — Biology. having both male and female organs in the same individual; hermaphroditic.
- mooneye — Veterinary Pathology. an eye of a horse affected with moon blindness.
- mycenae — an ancient city in S Greece, in Argolis: important ruins.
- mynheer — Dutch. the term of address and title of respect corresponding to sir and Mr.
- myoneme — A contractile structure found in some eukaryotic single-celled organisms, particularly Vorticella, consisting of a series of protein filaments that shorten rapidly on exposure to calcium.
- myrcene — (organic compound) An olefinic natural organic compound, a hydrocarbon and monoterpene, important in perfumery.
- nailery — a nail factory
- naively — having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality; unsophisticated; ingenuous.
- naivety — naiveté.
- nakedly — In a naked manner; without concealing anything; blatantly or openly.
- nattery — irritable; peevish
- nectary — Botany. an organ or part that secretes nectar.
- needily — in a condition of need or want; poverty-stricken; impoverished; extremely poor; destitute.
- neology — neologism.
- neolyte — a durable, semiflexible synthetic material used for the heels and soles of shoes.
- neoteny — Also called pedogenesis. the production of offspring by an organism in its larval or juvenile form; the elimination of the adult phase of the life cycle.
- neotype — a specimen selected to replace a holotype that has been lost or destroyed.
- nervily — In a nervy way.
- nessary — Eye dialect of necessary.