8-letter words containing y, n
- you mean — You use 'you mean' in a question to check that you have understood what someone has said.
- young'un — a young one; child.
- youngers — Plural form of younger.
- youngest — being in the first or early stage of life or growth; youthful; not old: a young woman.
- younging — (geology) The direction in which stratigraphy becomes younger, for a particular formation.
- youngish — somewhat young.
- younguns — a young one; child.
- younkers — Plural form of younker.
- yuan tan — an annual Chinese festival marking the Chinese New Year. It can last over three days and includes the exchange of gifts, firework displays, and dancing
- yungchia — Older Spelling. Yongjia.
- yungning — Wade-Giles. Yongning.
- yvelines — a department in N France. 877 sq. mi. (2271 sq. km). Capital: Versailles.
- zamyatin — Yevgenii Ivanovich (jɪvˈɡjenij ɪˈvanəvitʃ). 1884–1937, Russian novelist and writer, in Paris from 1931, whose works include satirical studies of provincial life in Russia and England, where he worked during World War I, and the dystopian novel We (1924)
- zebrinny — the offspring of a male horse and a female zebra
- zirconyl — containing the group ZrO=, as zirconyl bromide, ZrOBr 2 .
- zoomancy — foreseeing the future through observing the actions of animals
- zworykin — Vladimir Kosma [vlad-uh-meer koz-muh] /ˈvlæd əˌmɪər ˈkɒz mə/ (Show IPA), 1889–1982, U.S. physicist, engineer, and inventor, born in Russia: known as the “father of television.”.
- zygaenid — of or relating to the burnet moth genus, Zygaena
- zygodont — possessing paired ridges on the molar teeth
- zygotene — the second stage of prophase in meiosis, during which strands of homologous chromosomes line up and become pairs.
- zymogens — Plural form of zymogen.