8-letter words containing y, n
- oriskany — a village in central New York, near Utica: battle 1777.
- ornately — elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so: They bought an ornate Louis XIV sofa.
- outlying — lying at a distance from the center or the main body; remote; out-of-the-way: outlying military posts.
- outvying — to strive in competition or rivalry with another; contend for superiority: Swimmers from many nations were vying for the title.
- overmany — an excess of people
- oxymoron — a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”.
- oxytocin — Biochemistry. a polypeptide hormone, produced by the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland, that stimulates contraction of the smooth muscle of the uterus.
- oxytonic — (of a word) having the stress or acute accent on the last syllable
- palimony — a form of alimony awarded to one of the partners in a romantic relationship after the breakup of that relationship following a long period of living together.
- panderly — in the manner of a pander
- pandowdy — apple pandowdy.
- panegyry — a panegyric
- panofsky — Erwin, 1892–1968, U.S. art historian, born in Germany.
- pansophy — universal wisdom or knowledge.
- papyrine — paper-like; papyral
- paronymy — a play on words
- partying — a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.: a cocktail party.
- patently — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- patronly — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- patronym — patronymic (defs 3, 4).
- pattypan — white bush (scallop)
- pay down — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
- pay zone — A pay zone is a reservoir or part of a reservoir that contains hydrocarbons that can be extracted economically.
- paynimry — paganism
- payphone — a public telephone requiring that the caller deposit coins or use a credit card to pay for a call.
- paysandu — a city in W Uruguay, on the Uruguay River.
- peasanty — having qualities ascribed to traditional country life or people; simple or unsophisticated
- peccancy — sinning; guilty of a moral offense.
- pedantry — the character, qualities, practices, etc., of a pedant, especially undue display of learning.
- penality — of, relating to, or involving punishment, as for crimes or offenses.
- pendency — the state or time of being pending, undecided, or undetermined, as of a lawsuit awaiting settlement.
- pennyboy — an employee whose duties include menial tasks, such as running errands
- pennyfee — a small payment, whether literally of the value of a penny or not
- penology — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
- perigyny — Botany. a perigynous condition.
- pernancy — a taking or receiving, as of the rents or profits of an estate.
- phantasy — fantasy.
- phenylic — relating to, consisting of or originating from phenyl
- phrygana — another name for garigue, used esp in Greece
- phrygian — of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their language.
- phytonic — of or relating to a phyton
- picayune — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- picnicky — of or relating to picnic
- pigeonry — a loft for keeping pigeons in; dovecote; pigeon house
- pin-eyed — (of flowers, esp primulas) having the stigma in the mouth of the corolla, on the end of a long style with the stamens lower in the tube
- pinckney — Charles, 1757–1824, American Revolutionary leader and politician: senator 1798–1801.
- pinguefy — to make or become greasy or fat
- pink-eye — a contagious, epidemic form of acute conjunctivitis occurring in humans and certain animals: so called from the color of the inflamed eye.
- pipingly — in a shrill manner
- piquancy — agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; pleasantly biting or tart: a piquant aspic.