8-letter words containing yan
- abeyance — a state of being suspended or put aside temporarily
- abeyancy — (rare) Abeyance.
- aryanize — (in Nazi ideology) to purge (politics and society) of all non-Aryan elements or people; make characteristically Aryan
- astyanax — the young son of Hector and Andromache, who was hurled from the walls of Troy by the Greeks
- bowyangs — a pair of strings or straps secured round each trouser leg below the knee, worn esp by sheep-shearers and other labourers
- buoyance — the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
- buoyancy — Buoyancy is the ability that something has to float on a liquid or in the air.
- cyanates — Plural form of cyanate.
- cyaneous — deep blue; cerulean.
- cyanides — Plural form of cyanide.
- cyanidin — (organic compound) A anthocyanidin pigment, 2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl) chromenylium-3,5,7-triol, found in many red berries.
- cyanines — Plural form of cyanine.
- cyanogen — an extremely poisonous colourless flammable gas with an almond-like odour: has been used in chemical warfare. Formula: (CN)2
- cyanosed — (pathology) Afflicted with cyanosis.
- cyanosis — a bluish-purple discoloration of skin and mucous membranes usually resulting from a deficiency of oxygen in the blood
- cyanotic — blueness or lividness of the skin, as from imperfectly oxygenated blood.
- cyanuret — cyanide
- cyanuric — of or derived from cyanuric acid.
- guyanese — an independent republic on the NE coast of South America: a former British protectorate; gained independence 1966; member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 82,978 sq. mi. (214,913 sq. km). Capital: Georgetown.
- gyandzha — city in NC Azerbaijan, in Transcaucasia: pop. 282,000
- hengyang — a city in E central Hunan province, in E China.
- hinayana — earlier of the two great schools of Buddhism, still prevalent in Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, and Cambodia, emphasizing personal salvation through one's own efforts.
- huxleyan — of, relating to, or characteristic or suggestive of Aldous Huxley or his writings.
- isocyano — containing an isocyano group.
- jerseyan — a British island in the English Channel: the largest of the Channel Islands. 44 sq. mi. (116 sq. km). Capital: St. Helier.
- kweiyang — Guiyang.
- kyanized — Simple past tense and past participle of kyanize.
- liaoyang — Pinyin, Wade-Giles. a city in central Liaoning province, in NE China.
- lubyanka — a prison and secret-police headquarters in central Moscow.
- mahayana — the later of the two great schools of Buddhism, chiefly in China, Tibet, and Japan, characterized by eclecticism and a general belief in a common search for salvation, sometimes thought to be attainable through faith alone.
- minyanim — Plural form of minyan.
- myingyan — a city in central Burma.
- ramayana — an epic of India, one of the Puranas attributed to Valmiki and concerned with the life and adventures of Ramachandra and his wife Sita.
- shaoyang — a city in central Hunan province, in E China.
- shenyang — Pinyin, Wade-Giles. a province in NE China. 58,301 sq. mi. (151,000 sq. km). Capital: Shenyang.
- wesleyan — of or relating to John Wesley, founder of Methodism.
- yang tao — Chinese gooseberry.
- yangquan — a city in E Shanxi province, in NE China.
- yangshao — of or designating a Neolithic culture of N China c5000–3000 b.c., characterized by dwellings with sunken floors, domestication of the pig, and a fine handmade pottery painted mainly in geometric designs of spirals and circles.
- yangzhou — a city in central Jiangsu province, in E China.
- yankeefy — to cause to acquire Yankee traits or characteristics: She was afraid that a year in a Connecticut college had Yankeefied her speech.
- yanomama — Yanomamo.
- yanomamo — a member of an indigenous people of southern Venezuela and neighboring Brazil who live in scattered villages in the rain forests and conduct warfare against one another continually.
- yin-yang — (in Chinese philosophy and religion) two principles, one negative, dark, and feminine (yin) and one positive, bright, and masculine (yang) whose interaction influences the destinies of creatures and things.
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