8-letter words containing y, n, e
- daventry — a town in central England, in Northamptonshire: light industries, site of an important international radio transmitter. Pop: 21 731 (2001)
- day name — a name indicating a person's day of birth
- deaconry — the office or status of a deacon
- decaying — rotting as a result of bacterial, fungal, or chemical action; decomposing
- decenary — of or relating to a tithing
- decently — conforming to the recognized standard of propriety, good taste, modesty, etc., as in behavior or speech.
- decoying — Present participle of decoy.
- decrying — Present participle of decry.
- dehyphen — a short line (-) used to connect the parts of a compound word or the parts of a word divided for any purpose.
- deifying — Present participle of deify.
- delannoy — Marcel [mar-sel] /marˈsɛl/ (Show IPA), 1898–1962, French composer.
- delaunay — Robert (rɔbɛr). 1885–1941, French painter, whose abstract use of colour characterized Orphism, an attempt to introduce more colour into austere forms of Cubism
- delaying — to put off to a later time; defer; postpone: The pilot delayed the flight until the weather cleared.
- denazify — to free or declare (people, institutions, etc) freed from Nazi influence or ideology
- deniably — In a deniable manner.
- denotify — (transitive, India) To repeal the categorization of (a tribe) as criminal under the w Criminal Tribes Act.
- dentally — in relation to the teeth
- deprenyl — a drug used to treat senile dementia, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and depression, by acting as a monoamine oxidase inhibitor
- deviancy — deviant quality or state.
- dioxygen — (chemistry) the normal allotrope of oxygen having two atoms per molecule.
- diphenyl — biphenyl.
- disneyfy — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
- divinely — of or relating to a god, especially the Supreme Being.
- donleavy — J(ames) P(atrick) born 1926, U.S. novelist.
- donnelly — Declan. born 1975, British television presenter, who appears with Antony McPartlin as Ant and Dec
- dounreay — the site in N Scotland of a nuclear power station, which contained the world's first fast-breeder reactor (1962–77). A prototype fast-breeder operated from 1974 until 1994: a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant has also operated at the site
- doyennes — Plural form of doyenne.
- drinkery — barroom; tavern.
- dry rent — rent seck.
- dry wine — wine that is not sweet
- drystone — (of a stone wall) built without using mortar.
- dunleary — a port in E Republic of Ireland, on Dublin Bay. Pop: 24 447 (2002)
- dye-line — a contact print of a line drawing, giving brown lines on an off-white background.
- dynamise — Alternative spelling of dynamize.
- dynamite — A high explosive consisting of nitroglycerine mixed with an absorbent material and typically molded into sticks.
- dynamize — Give power or energy to; make dynamic.
- dysgenic — pertaining to or causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced.
- dyspneal — Alt form dyspnoeal.
- dyspneic — difficult or labored breathing.
- dyspnoea — Alternative spelling of dyspnea.
- early on — in or during the first part of a period of time, a course of action, a series of events, etc.: early in the year.
- ecdysone — an insect hormone that stimulates metamorphosis.
- ectogeny — the effect of pollination and fertilization on the tissues of a plant
- ecycling — the process of recycling electronic equipment or components
- edifying — to instruct or benefit, especially morally or spiritually; uplift: religious paintings that edify the viewer.
- egyptian — person from Egypt
- el minya — a city in central Egypt, on the Nile. Pop: 225 000 (2005 est)
- elegancy — Alternative form of elegance.
- eleventy — (humorous) The number 110, 11 \u00d7 10.
- eminency — Prominence or relative importance.