11-letter words containing y, n
- intricately — having many interrelated parts or facets; entangled or involved: an intricate maze.
- introvertly — In the manner of an introvert.
- intrusively — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- intuitively — perceiving directly by intuition without rational thought, as a person or the mind.
- invariantly — unvarying; invariable; constant.
- invasionary — That take part in a military invasion.
- invectively — In an invective manner.
- inventively — apt at inventing, devising, or contriving.
- inviability — (biology) The state or quality of not being viable.
- invidiously — In an invidious manner.
- inviolately — In an inviolate manner.
- involuntary — not voluntary; independent of one's will; not by one's own choice: an involuntary listener; involuntary servitude.
- ironmongery — a hardware store or business.
- irrelevancy — irrelevance.
- isoantibody — (formerly) an alloantibody.
- isobutylene — a colorless, very volatile liquid or flammable gas, C 4 H 8 , used chiefly in the manufacture of butyl rubber.
- isocyanides — Plural form of isocyanide.
- isotonicity — (uncountable) The state of being isotonic.
- itinerantly — In an itinerant manner.
- jabberingly — in a jabbering manner
- jackanapery — (dated, pejorative) The behaviour of a jackanapes.
- jackson day — January 8, a holiday commemorating Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815: a legal holiday in Louisiana.
- jayawardene — Junius Richard. 1906–96, Sri Lankan statesman; prime minister (1977–78) and first president of Sri Lanka (1978–89)
- jejunectomy — excision of part or all of the jejunum.
- jejunostomy — an artificial opening from the jejunum through the abdominal wall, created for the drainage of jejunal contents or for feeding.
- jersey pine — Virginia pine.
- job vacancy — a job which has not been filled
- john motley — John Lothrop [loh-thruh p] /ˈloʊ θrəp/ (Show IPA), 1814–77, U.S. historian and diplomat.
- johnny cake — a cake or bread made of corn meal and water or milk, usually cooked on a griddle.
- johnny-cake — a cake or bread made of corn meal and water or milk, usually cooked on a griddle.
- journeywork — the work of a journeyman.
- joylessness — The state or condition of being joyless; lack of joy; unjoy.
- judge lynch — the personification of lynch law.
- kansas city — a city in W Missouri, at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers.
- karl jansky — Karl Guthe, 1905–50, U.S. engineer: pioneer in radio astronomy.
- karyotyping — the analysis of chromosomes.
- kelly green — a strong yellow-green.
- ketone body — any of three compounds, acetoacetic acid, beta-hydroxybutyric acid, or acetone, that are intermediate in the metabolism of fatty acids and that are found in abnormal quantities in the blood and urine during certain pathological conditions, as diabetes mellitus.
- key (in) on — to focus one's attention, effort, etc. on
- key station — a radio or television station that originates most of a network's broadcasting.
- keyboarding — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- khmelnitsky — a city in W Ukraine, SW of Kiev.
- kidney bean — a common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, cultivated in many varieties for its edible seeds and pods.
- kidney dish — medical: curved basin
- kidney worm — any of various large nematodes parasitic in the kidneys, especially Stephanurus dentatus, found in pigs.
- kinesiology — the science dealing with the interrelationship of the physiological processes and anatomy of the human body with respect to movement.
- kinetically — pertaining to motion.
- king's lynn — a historic town in Norfolk, England.
- kinky boots — boots with a very high heel and pointed toe, reaching to the thigh and often made of a shiny material, which are intended to look provocative and sexy
- kinyarwanda — Ruanda (def 2).