10-letter words containing y, n
- journeying — a traveling from one place to another, usually taking a rather long time; trip: a six-day journey across the desert.
- journeyman — a person who has served an apprenticeship at a trade or handicraft and is certified to work at it assisting or under another person.
- journeymen — a person who has served an apprenticeship at a trade or handicraft and is certified to work at it assisting or under another person.
- jouy print — toile de Jouy.
- jouysaunce — joy
- jovysaunce — joy
- joyfulness — full of joy, as a person or one's heart; glad; delighted.
- joyousness — The state of being joyous.
- jubilantly — With jubilation or triumph.
- jugglingly — in a juggling or manipulative manner
- julian day — a serial number equal to the number of days elapsed since January 1, 4713 b.c., proposed by Joseph Scaliger in 1582 and used in astronomical calculations: January 1, 1965, at noon, Greenwich Civil Time, was Julian Day 2,438,762.0. Abbreviation: J.D.
- jumblingly — in a jumbling or tumultuous manner
- jungle gym — children's climbing frame
- justifying — Present participle of justify.
- juvenility — juvenile state, character, or manner.
- keybinding — Alternative spelling of key binding.
- keylogging — the practice of using a software program or hardware device (keylogger) to record all keystrokes on a computer keyboard, either overtly as a surveillance tool or covertly as spyware: Many employers are making use of keylogging to monitor their employees' computer habits.
- keypunched — Simple past tense and past participle of keypunch.
- keypuncher — A keypunch.
- keypunches — Plural form of keypunch.
- keyserling — Hermann Alexander [her-mahn ah-le-ksahn-duh r] /ˈhɛr mɑn ˌɑ lɛˈksɑn dər/ (Show IPA), Count, 1880–1946, German philosopher and writer.
- kidney ore — a form of hematite that occurs in kidney-shaped masses
- kidneywort — the navelwort, Umbilicus rupestris, of the stonecrop family, having drooping yellowish-green flowers.
- kiteflying — an act or instance of flying a kite.
- klendusity — (in plants) the ability to resist disease
- kryptonate — (inorganic chemistry) To infuse a solid with krypton gas (especially with radioactive krypton-85).
- kryptonite — The one weakness of something or someone that is otherwise invulnerable, an Achilles' heel.
- kyrgyzstan — official name of Kirghizia.
- labyrinths — Plural form of labyrinth.
- lady's man — a man who strives especially to please women and to attract their attention and admiration.
- ladyfinger — a small, finger-shaped sponge cake.
- lake nyasa — a lake in central Africa at the S end of the Great Rift Valley: the third largest lake in Africa, drained by the Shire River into the Zambezi. Area: about 28 500 sq km (11 000 sq miles)
- lamentably — that is to be lamented; regrettable; unfortunate: a lamentable decision.
- laminotomy — (surgery) The neurosurgical procedure that removes part of a lamina of the vertebral arch in order to decompress the spinal cord.
- lampoonery — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- land dayak — a member of any of several Dayak tribes of Sarawak and southwestern Borneo. Compare Iban.
- land yacht — a wind-driven vehicle with a mast and sails, having three wheels, a single seat, and a steering wheel, used especially on beaches and other sandy areas.
- lanternfly — any of several large tropical insects of the family Fulgoridae, formerly thought to be luminescent.
- laryngeals — Plural form of laryngeal.
- laryngitic — Pertaining to or suffering from laryngitis.
- laryngitis — inflammation of the larynx, often with accompanying sore throat, hoarseness or loss of voice, and dry cough.
- laughingly — With amused ridicule or ludicrous inappropriateness.
- laundryman — a person who works in or operates a laundry.
- laundrymen — Plural form of laundryman.
- lawn party — garden party.
- lay an egg — the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
- lay person — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- lazy susan — a revolving tray for foods, condiments, etc., placed usually at the center of a dining table.
- lazy tongs — extensible tongs for grasping objects at a distance, consisting of a series of pairs of crossing pieces, each pair pivoted together in the middle and connected with the next pair at the extremities.
- lectionary — a book or a list of lections for reading in a divine service.