8-letter words containing y, n
- 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.
- nihility — nothingness; nonexistence.
- nijinsky — Vaslav or Waslaw [vah-sluh f] /ˈvɑ sləf/ (Show IPA), 1890–1950, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer.
- nimbyism — The ideology of a nimby, often used pejoratively.
- ninnyish — Silly; foolish.
- ninnyism — Predisposition to act like a ninny.
- nitpicky — Finicky; overly critical; concerned with insignificant details.
- nitrosyl — nitroso.
- nitroxyl — the chemical compound HNO
- no entry — no way in
- no savvy — I don't (he doesn't, etc) understand
- nobility — the noble class or the body of nobles in a country.
- nocently — in a nocent manner; harmfully
- noctuary — a journal of what happens in the night
- nodality — pertaining to or of the nature of a node.
- nodosity — having nodes.
- nomarchy — one of the provinces into which modern Greece is divided.
- nomogeny — a law or belief that life originated from a natural process instead of a miraculous process
- nomology — the science of law or laws.
- noncyber — Not cyber; noncomputer.
- nondairy — being a substitute for milk or milk products; containing no dairy ingredients: nondairy whipped topping for the pie.
- nondiary — Not of or relating to a diary.
- 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
- nonfatty — not fatty, not characterized by or composed of fat
- nonhairy — Not hairy.
- nonhappy — (philosophy) Not happy.
- nonhardy — characterized by fragility or incapable of surviving under difficult conditions
- nonleafy — not leafy, having no leaves
- nonloyal — not loyal, lacking loyalty
- nonlyric — (of poetry) not in a lyric style
- nonmoney — not involving money
- nonparty — a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.: a cocktail party.
- nonpayer — One who is not a payer, who does not pay.
- nonroyal — not royal
- nonstory — a story of little interest, substance, or importance
- nonstyle — a style that cannot be identified as such
- nonunity — Not of or pertaining to unity.
- nonwoody — herbaceous.
- noometry — a term used by the satirical novelist Thomas Love Peacock to mean 'measurement of the mind'
- normalcy — the quality or condition of being normal, as the general economic, political, and social conditions of a nation; normality: After months of living in a state of tension, all yearned for a return to normalcy.
- normally — in a normal or regular way: The wound is healing normally.
- normandy — a region in N France along the English Channel: invaded and settled by Scandinavians in the 10th century, becoming a duchy in a.d. 911; later a province, the capital of which was Rouen; Allied invasion in World War II began here June 6, 1944.