8-letter words containing y, u, a, n
- liaoyuan — a city in SE Jilin province, in NE China.
- luanshya — a town in central Zambia.
- lubyanka — a prison and secret-police headquarters in central Moscow.
- luminary — a celestial body, as the sun or moon.
- lunately — in a lunate or crescent form
- manfully — having or showing boldness, courage, or strength; resolute.
- manually — done, operated, worked, etc., by the hand or hands rather than by an electrical or electronic device: a manual gearshift.
- munkacsy — Mihály von [mi-hahy fuh n] /ˈmɪ haɪ fən/ (Show IPA), (Michael Lieb) 1844–1900, Hungarian painter.
- my aunt! — an exclamation of surprise or amazement
- naughtly — (obsolete) naughtily; wrongly.
- naumachy — naumachia.
- navy cut — tobacco finely cut from a block
- neurally — of or relating to a nerve or the nervous system.
- noctuary — a journal of what happens in the night
- nugacity — triviality; insignificance.
- nugatory — of no real value; trifling; worthless.
- numeracy — to represent numbers by symbols.
- numerary — of or relating to a number or numbers.
- nycturia — a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- paysandu — a city in W Uruguay, on the Uruguay River.
- picayune — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- piquancy — agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; pleasantly biting or tart: a piquant aspic.
- qingyuan — former name of Baoding.
- quaintly — having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque: a quaint old house.
- quandary — a state of perplexity or uncertainty, especially as to what to do; dilemma.
- quantify — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- quantity — a particular or indefinite amount of anything: a small quantity of milk; the ocean's vast quantity of fish.
- quiddany — a type of quince jelly
- run away — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- ryukyuan — a native or inhabitant of Ryukyu.
- saguenay — a river in SE Canada, in Quebec, flowing SE from Lake St. John to the St. Lawrence. 125 miles (200 km) long.
- sandusky — a port in N Ohio, on Lake Erie.
- sanguify — to generate or turn into blood
- seacunny — a steersman or quartermaster in a ship manned by lascars
- sprauncy — smart or showy in appearance
- spunyarn — small stuff made from rope yarns twisted together
- sylvanus — Silvanus.
- tautonym — a scientific name in which the generic and the specific names are the same, as Chloris chloris (the greenfinch).
- thankyou — If you refer to something as a thankyou for what someone has done for you, you mean that it is intended as a way of thanking them.
- truantly — in the manner or typical of a truant
- truantry — truancy.
- tympanum — Anatomy, Zoology. middle ear. tympanic membrane.
- uncatchy — not catchy or memorable
- unchancy — unlucky.
- unclassy — not classy; lacking in good taste or sense; crude: Always being late for appointments is unclassy.
- underlay — to lie under or beneath; be situated under.
- underpay — to pay less than is deserved or usual.
- undersay — to state in the form of an answer
- underway — occurring while under way: the underway activities on a cruise ship.
- uneasily — not easy in body or mind; uncomfortable; restless; disturbed; perturbed.