8-letter words containing y, n, e
- mylonite — Geology. a rock that has been crushed and sheared to such an extent that its original texture has been destroyed.
- myogenic — originating in muscle, as an impulse or sensation.
- myonemes — Plural form of myoneme.
- mytilene — Also called Lesbos. a Greek island in the NE Aegean. 836 sq. mi. (2165 sq. km).
- name day — the feast day of the saint after whom a person is named.
- nascency — beginning to exist or develop: That nascent republic is holding its first election this month.
- natively — being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one's native land.
- naysayer — a person who habitually expresses negative or pessimistic views: Despite a general feeling that things were going well, a few naysayers tried to cast gloom.
- ne'erday — New Year's Day
- nebbishy — a pitifully ineffectual, luckless, and timid person.
- neckyoke — A yoke which touches or surrounds the carrier's neck, rather then just resting on the shoulders.
- necropsy — the examination of a body after death; autopsy.
- negatory — marked by negation; denying; negative.
- neocracy — Government by the new or inexperienced.
- neohippy — A new age hippy.
- neomycin — an antibiotic produced by an actinomycete, Streptomyces fradiae, administered orally or locally, used chiefly for skin, urinary tract, and eye infections and as a surgical antiseptic.
- neophyte — a beginner or novice: He's a neophyte at chess.
- neostyle — a manifolding device similar to the cyclostyle.
- neotypes — Plural form of neotype.
- net play — play made from a position close to the net
- netnanny — (networking) A small program for children to block access to certain sites.
- neurally — of or relating to a nerve or the nervous system.
- new city — a city in SE New York.
- new year — New Year's Day.
- new york — Also called New York State. a state in the NE United States. 49,576 sq. mi. (128,400 sq. km). Capital: Albany. Abbreviation: NY (for use with zip code), N.Y.
- newlywed — a person who has recently married.
- newsboys — Plural form of newsboy.
- newslady — A newswoman.
- neyagawa — a city in S Honshu, Japan: a suburb of Osaka.
- niemeyer — Oscar, 1907–2012, Brazilian architect.
- no entry — no way in
- nocently — in a nocent manner; harmfully
- nomogeny — a law or belief that life originated from a natural process instead of a miraculous process
- noncyber — Not cyber; noncomputer.
- nonempty — (of a set, group, collection, etc.) containing at least one element.
- nonentry — the failure of a tenant's heir to renew investiture after the tenant's death
- nonleafy — not leafy, having no leaves
- nonmoney — not involving money
- nonpayer — One who is not a payer, who does not pay.
- nonstyle — a style that cannot be identified as such
- noometry — a term used by the satirical novelist Thomas Love Peacock to mean 'measurement of the mind'
- nosegays — a small bunch of flowers; bouquet; posy.
- not very — hardly, only a little
- novenary — A group of nine.
- numeracy — to represent numbers by symbols.
- numerary — of or relating to a number or numbers.
- nutmeggy — having the smell or the taste of nutmeg
- nyet.gif — (security) A file that crackers from Russia tied to upload to many web sites in 2014 to test whether the victim's web server software was configured to accepted HTTP PUT requests.
- nyetwork — notwork
- nymphaea — a room or area having a fountain, statues, flowers, etc.