8-letter words containing y, n
- pit pony — formerly, a pony used in coal mines to pull loads of coal
- playdown — a play-off.
- playland — an area used for recreation or amusement; playground or amusement park.
- plenarty — the state of an endowed church office when occupied
- plyingly — in a plying manner
- podgorny — Nikolai Viktorovich [nyi-kuh-lahy vyeek-tuh-ruh-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ ˈvyik tə rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–83, Russian government official: president of the Soviet Union 1965–77.
- polyaxon — a nerve cell with multiple branches
- polyenic — relating to a polyene
- polygene — one of a group of nonallelic genes that together control a quantitative characteristic in an organism.
- polygyny — the practice or condition of having more than one wife at one time.
- polyonym — a word with the same meaning as another word; synonym
- polyphon — a large clockwork or hand-operated music box
- polypine — relating to polyps
- polypnea — rapid breathing; panting.
- polytene — denoting a type of giant-size chromosome consisting of many replicated genes in parallel, found esp in Drosophila larvae
- polyteny — the condition of being polytene
- polyxena — a daughter of King Priam of Troy, who was sacrificed on the command of Achilles' ghost
- polyzoan — bryozoan
- polyzoon — an individual zooid within a polyzoan
- ponyskin — the leather from a pony hide
- ponytail — an arrangement of the hair in a long lock drawn tightly against the back of the head and cinched so as to hang loosely.
- popinjay — a person given to vain, pretentious displays and empty chatter; coxcomb; fop.
- posingly — in a posing manner
- postsync — postsynchronization
- potently — powerful; mighty: a potent fighting force.
- poyntell — a pavement of tile mosaic forming an abstract design.
- poyntill — pointel.
- princely — greatly liberal; lavish; magnificent: a princely entertainment.
- printery — (formerly) an establishment for typographic printing.
- propenyl — containing the propenyl group.
- propylon — propylaeum.
- pryingly — in a prying manner
- psyching — psych1 .
- pulingly — in a complaining manner
- punditry — the opinions or methods of pundits.
- pungency — sharply affecting the organs of taste or smell, as if by a penetrating power; biting; acrid.
- pycnidia — (in certain ascomycetes and fungi imperfecti) a globose or flask-shaped fruiting body bearing conidia on conidiophores.
- pycnosis — the reduction in size and increase in staining of a cell or its nucleus, usually a feature of cell degeneration
- pycnotic — relating to a theory which holds that matter formation occurred as a result of ether condensation
- pygmaean — pygmy (defs 6, 7).
- pyinkado — a leguminous tree, Xylia xylocarpa (or dolabriformis), native to India and Myanmar
- pyknosis — a process of thickening, esp. in the shrinking nucleus of a degenerating cell
- pyogenic — producing or generating pus.
- pyonings — the work of military sappers, such as the digging of trenches
- pyranoid — relating to the structure of a pyranose
- pyranose — any monosaccharide having a pyran ring structure.
- pyrenean — of or relating to the Pyrenees or their inhabitants
- pyrenees — mountains between France and Spain
- pyrenoid — a spherical protein structure found within chloroplasts of certain algae and hornworts.
- pyridine — a colorless, flammable, liquid organic base, C 5 H 5 N, having a disagreeable odor, usually obtained from coal or synthesized from acetaldehyde and ammonia: used chiefly as a solvent and in organic synthesis.