8-letter words containing y, n
- -defying — at odds or in contradiction with the thing specified
- -enchyma — denoting cellular tissue
- -mongery — dealing or trading in the goods or commodities mentioned
- a-plenty — in sufficient quantity; in generous amounts (usually used following the noun it modifies): He had troubles aplenty.
- abeyance — a state of being suspended or put aside temporarily
- abeyancy — (rare) Abeyance.
- abhinaya — (dance) Use of the face and hands, in an expressive manner, similar to the kathakali dance of India.R:MW3 1976 page=3.
- abiogeny — (biology) abiogenesis.
- absently — in an absent-minded or preoccupied manner; inattentively
- achingly — You can use achingly for emphasis when you are referring to things that create feelings of wanting something very much, but of not being able to have it.
- acrimony — Acrimony is bitter and angry words or quarrels.
- acronyms — a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.
- adamancy — a state of resoluteness
- aduncity — the quality of being hooked or curved inward
- adynamia — loss of vital power or strength, esp as the result of illness; weakness or debility
- adynamic — Not dynamic; without strength or vigor.
- adynaton — (rhetoric) A form of hyperbole that uses exaggeration so magnified as to express impossibility.
- aerodyne — any heavier-than-air machine, such as an aircraft, that derives the greater part of its lift from aerodynamic forces
- aeronomy — the science of the earth's upper atmosphere
- affinely — In an affine manner.
- affinity — If you have an affinity with someone or something, you feel that you are similar to them or that you know and understand them very well.
- aglycone — a chemical compound
- agrimony — any of various N temperate rosaceous plants of the genus Agrimonia, which have compound leaves, long spikes of small yellow flowers, and bristly burlike fruits
- agronomy — the science of cultivation of land, soil management, and crop production
- agrypnia — the inability to sleep
- alan kay — (person) The leader of the Software Concepts Group at Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre which developed Smalltalk, the pioneering object-oriented programming system, in 1972.
- alderney — one of the Channel Islands, in the English Channel: separated from the French coast by a dangerous tidal channel (the Race of Alderney). Pop: 2294 (2001). Area: 8 sq km (3 sq miles)
- alkylene — (obsolete, organic chemistry) An alkene.
- allaying — to put (fear, doubt, suspicion, anger, etc.) to rest; calm; quiet.
- alloying — relating to, or used in, alloying
- alpinely — In an alpine way, loftily.
- amenably — ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice; agreeable; submissive; tractable: an amenable servant.
- ammonify — to treat or impregnate with ammonia or a compound of ammonia
- amylogen — the water-soluble part of the starch granule
- amythaon — the son of Cretheus and Tyro who supported Jason's claim to the throne of Iolcus.
- anaglyph — a stereoscopic picture consisting of two images of the same object, taken from slightly different angles, in two complementary colours, usually red and cyan (green-blue). When viewed through spectacles having one red and one cyan lens, the images merge to produce a stereoscopic sensation
- analepsy — (medicine) analepsis.
- analysed — to separate (a material or abstract entity) into constituent parts or elements; determine the elements or essential features of (opposed to synthesize): to analyze an argument.
- analyser — An analyser is a piece of equipment which is used to analyse the substances that are present in something such as a gas.
- analyses — to separate (a material or abstract entity) into constituent parts or elements; determine the elements or essential features of (opposed to synthesize): to analyze an argument.
- analysis — Analysis is the process of considering something carefully or using statistical methods in order to understand it or explain it.
- analysts — Plural form of analyst.
- analytes — Plural form of analyte.
- analytic — Analytic means the same as analytical.
- analyzed — to separate (a material or abstract entity) into constituent parts or elements; determine the elements or essential features of (opposed to synthesize): to analyze an argument.
- analyzer — An analyzer is a piece of equipment used to analyze the substances that are present in something such as a gas.
- analyzes — to separate (a material or abstract entity) into constituent parts or elements; determine the elements or essential features of (opposed to synthesize): to analyze an argument.
- analyzis — Nonstandard spelling of analysis.
- anatropy — (of a plant ovule) the condition of being inverted during development by a bending of the stalk causing the nucleus to point toward the base
- ancestry — Your ancestry is the fact that you are descended from certain people.
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