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9-letter words containing y, n

  • tawny owl — a European owl, Strix aluco, having a reddish-brown or grey plumage, black eyes, and a round head
  • tea money — (especially in parts of China) a bribe used to facilitate any business dealing.
  • teasingly — to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
  • teemingly — in a productive or teeming manner
  • teknonymy — the practice among certain peoples of renaming a parent after a child.
  • teleonomy — Biology. the principle that the body's structures and functions serve an overall purpose, as in assuring the survival of the organism.
  • telephony — the construction or operation of telephones or telephonic systems.
  • tellingly — having force or effect; effective; striking: a telling blow.
  • tenebrity — the state of being dark
  • tensility — of or relating to tension: tensile strain.
  • tent city — an area set up with tents, especially as to house homeless or displaced persons.
  • tenuously — thin or slender in form, as a thread.
  • testimony — Law. the statement or declaration of a witness under oath or affirmation, usually in court.
  • testingly — the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
  • thank you — expressing one's gratitude or thanks: a thank-you note.
  • thank-you — expressing one's gratitude or thanks: a thank-you note.
  • the fancy — those who follow a particular sport, esp prize fighting
  • the yukon — a territory of NW Canada, on the Beaufort Sea, between the Northwest Territories and Alaska: arctic and mountainous, reaching 5959 m (19 550 ft) at Mount Logan, Canada's highest peak; mineral resources. Capital: Whitehorse. Pop: 33 897 (2011). Area: 536 327 sq km (207 076 sq miles)
  • theomancy — divination or prophecy by an oracle or by people directly inspired by a god
  • theophany — a manifestation or appearance of God or a god to a person.
  • thingummy — You refer to something or someone as thingummy, thingummyjig or thingummybob when you do not know or cannot be bothered to use the proper word or name for them.
  • thinkably — in a thinkable or conceivable manner
  • thylacine — a wolflike marsupial, Thylacinus cynocephalus, of Tasmania, tan-colored with black stripes across the back: probably extinct.
  • thymidine — a nucleoside, C 10 H 14 N 2 O 5 , containing thymine and deoxyribose, that is a constituent of DNA.
  • thyratron — a gas-filled, hot-cathode tube in which one or more control electrodes initiate, but do not limit and cannot interrupt, the flow of electrons.
  • thyroxine — Biochemistry. the thyroid gland hormone that regulates the metabolic rate of the body.
  • timenoguy — a taut rope on a ship used to prevent the tangling of lines and riggings
  • tinkertoy — a children's toy construction set
  • tiny clos — A core part of Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) ported to Scheme and rebuilt using a MOP (Metaobject Protocol). This should be interesting to those who want to use MOPs without using a full Common Lisp or Dylan. The first release works with MIT Scheme 11.74.
  • titubancy — staggering or stumbling
  • tolstoyan — Leo or Lev Nikolaevich [lev nik-uh-lahy-uh-vich;; Russian lyef nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /lɛv ˌnɪk əˈlaɪ əˌvɪtʃ;; Russian ˈlyɛf nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Count, 1828–1910, Russian novelist and social critic.
  • tommy gun — Thompson submachine gun.
  • tonically — a medicine that invigorates or strengthens: a tonic of sulphur and molasses.
  • toponymic — of toponyms
  • toppingly — excellently; wonderfully
  • toy train — child's plaything: miniature train
  • trancedly — in a trancelike manner
  • trelawney — Edward John, 1792–1881, English adventurer and author.
  • trevelyan — George Macaulay, 1876–1962, English historian.
  • trigynian — relating to plants with three pistils, from the order Trigynia
  • trigynous — (of a plant) having three pistils
  • trinketry — trinkets collectively.
  • trionymal — having a name that consists of three separate parts
  • truepenny — a trusty, honest fellow.
  • try it on — to attempt to deceive or fool someone
  • tsaritsyn — a former name of Volgograd.
  • tsingyuan — Older Spelling. Qingyuan.
  • tuggingly — with tugs or in a way that tugs
  • turn away — move further from sth, sb
  • twalpenny — a Scots shilling
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