8-letter words containing y, n
- astyanax — the young son of Hector and Andromache, who was hurled from the walls of Troy by the Greeks
- asyndeta — Plural form of asyndeton.
- asynergy — defective coordination between parts, as muscles or limbs, that normally act in unison.
- athanasy — an absence of death or the condition of everlasting life
- atonally — In an atonal manner; without tone.
- attently — attentive; intent.
- attorney — In the United States, an attorney or attorney at law is a lawyer.
- atty gen — Attorney General
- autodyne — denoting or relating to an electrical circuit in which the same elements and valves are used as oscillator and detector
- autonomy — Autonomy is the ability to make your own decisions about what to do rather than being influenced by someone else or told what to do.
- autonyms — Plural form of autonym.
- autonymy — The use of a symbol as a name for itself.
- away win — a game won at an opponent's ground
- awayness — the state of not being in a specific place
- b-boying — a style of acrobatic dancing that combines intricate footwork with spinning and tumbling, usually to funk or hip-hop music.
- babycino — a drink of frothy milk with a chocolate topping, designed as an alternative to coffee for young children
- babykins — Fond term of address for a baby, child, or lover.
- bacronym — Alternative spelling of backronym.
- baloneys — Plural form of baloney.
- banality — the condition or quality of being banal, or devoid of freshness or originality: the banality of everyday life.
- banditry — Banditry is used to refer to acts of robbery and violence in areas where the rule of law has broken down.
- bandying — to pass from one to another or back and forth; give and take; trade; exchange: to bandy blows; to bandy words.
- bandyman — the driver of a bandy; a cart driver
- bangalay — a myrtaceous Australian tree, Eucalyptus botryoides, valued for its hard red wood
- bankerly — relating to or resembling a banker
- banyalla — Victorian box.
- barangay — The smallest administrative division in the Philippines; a village, district, or ward.
- barnsley — an industrial town in N England, in Barnsley unitary authority, South Yorkshire. Pop: 71 599 (2001)
- barnyard — On a farm, the barnyard is the area in front of or next to a barn.
- barrenly — Unfruitfully; unproductively.
- baryonic — of or relating to a baryon
- barytone — having the last syllable unaccented
- bay lynx — bobcat
- bayesian — (of a theory) presupposing known a priori probabilities which may be subjectively assessed and which can be revised in the light of experience in accordance with Bayes' theorem. A hypothesis is thus confirmed by an experimental observation which is likely given the hypothesis and unlikely without it
- bayonets — Plural form of bayonet.
- be dying — to be eager or desperate (for something or to do something)
- benadryl — an antihistamine drug used in sleeping tablets; diphenhydramine. Formula: C17H21NO
- benchley — Robert (Charles)1889-1945; U.S. humorist
- benignly — having a kindly disposition; gracious: a benign king.
- benzylic — relating to benzyl
- berryman — John. 1914–72, US poet and critic, author of Homage to Mistress Bradstreet (1956) and Dream Songs (1964–68)
- bigeminy — a heart complaint in which beats occur in pairs
- billycan — Also called billy club. a police officer's club or baton.
- binarity — a principle of analysis requiring that a linguistic system, as a phonological, case, or semantic system, be represented as a set of binary oppositions.
- biphenyl — a white or colourless crystalline solid used as a heat-transfer agent, as a fungicide, as an antifungal food preservative (E230) on the skins of citrus fruit, and in the manufacture of dyes, etc. Formula: C6H5C6H5
- bithynia — an ancient country on the Black Sea in NW Asia Minor
- bitingly — nipping; smarting; keen: biting cold; a biting sensation on the tongue.
- blankety — a euphemism for any taboo word
- blantyre — a city in S Malawi: includes the former town of Limbe.
- blatancy — a blatant quality or thing