9-letter words containing y, n
- brimstony — of, relating to or resembling brimstone; sulphurous
- brinjarry — (in India) an itinerant grain and salt trader
- brondyron — a sword
- brythonic — the S group of Celtic languages, consisting of Welsh, Cornish, and Breton
- bumpkinly — like a bumpkin
- bunny hop — a jump executed with the feet held tightly together and the knees bent
- bunny hug — a ballroom dance with syncopated rhythm, popular in America in the early 20th century
- buoyantly — in a happy, confident manner
- businessy — of, relating to, typical of, or suitable for the world of commercial or industrial business
- buttinsky — a busybody
- buzzingly — in a buzzing manner
- by a nose — by the length of the animal's nose in horse racing, etc.
- by and by — presently or eventually
- by chance — Something that happens by chance was not planned by anyone.
- by design — If something happens or is done by design, someone does it deliberately, rather than by accident.
- by inches — a unit of length, 1/12 (0.0833) foot, equivalent to 2.54 centimeters.
- by nature — essentially or innately
- by return — by the next post back to the sender
- by-and-by — the future: to meet in the sweet by-and-by.
- bypassing — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- byrd land — a part of Antarctica, east of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea: claimed for the US by Admiral Richard E. Byrd in 1929, though all claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959
- byrewoman — a woman who works in a byre
- bystander — A bystander is a person who is present when something happens and who sees it but does not take part in it.
- bytownite — a rare plagioclase found in alkaline igneous rocks
- byzantine — Byzantine means related to or connected with the Byzantine Empire.
- byzantium — an ancient Greek city on the Bosporus: founded about 660 bc; rebuilt by Constantine I in 330 ad and called Constantinople; present-day Istanbul
- ca' canny — call “canny”; hence, go cautiously
- caa canny — to proceed cautiously; go slow
- cabin boy — a boy who waits on the officers and passengers of a ship
- cabinetry — cabinets collectively
- cacophony — You can describe a loud, unpleasant mixture of sounds as a cacophony.
- cageyness — the quality of being cagey
- calcedony — Alt form chalcedony.
- calmingly — in a calming manner
- canal ray — a stream of positive ions produced in a discharge tube by allowing them to pass through holes in the cathode
- candidacy — Someone's candidacy is their position of being a candidate in an election.
- candy bar — A candy bar is a long, thin, sweet food, usually covered in chocolate.
- candy-ass — a timid or cowardly person; wimp
- candygram — a message accompanied by sweets
- candytuft — either of two species of Iberis grown as annual garden plants for their umbels ("tufts") of white, red, or purplish flowers
- canopying — The activity of going through the canopy of a forest on a zipline.
- cantingly — In a canting manner; with jargon or religious affectation.
- canyoneer — a person who explores canyons
- canyoning — the sport of travelling down a river situated in a canyon by a variety of means including scrambling, floating, swimming, and abseiling
- captaincy — The captaincy of a team is the position of being captain.
- captainry — captainship
- carnality — pertaining to or characterized by the flesh or the body, its passions and appetites; sensual: carnal pleasures.
- carnivory — the eating of animal flesh
- carnosity — an abnormal fleshy protrusion growing on any part of the body
- carpentry — Carpentry is the activity of making and repairing wooden things.