8-letter words ending in MY
Every match in the dictionary, most common first.
34 words found
8-letter words 34
- monogamyhaving only one spouse at a time
- autonomyimmunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence
- lobotomysurgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes
- polygamyhaving more than one spouse at a time
- agronomythe application of soil and plant sciences to land management and crop production
- taxonomya classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc
- antinomya contradiction between two statements that seem equally reasonable
- autotomyspontaneous removal or casting off of a body part (as the tail of a lizard or claw of a lobster) especially when the organism is injured or under attack
- metonymysubstituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')
- homonymythe relation between two words that are spelled the same way but differ in meaning or the relation between two words that are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning
- misogamyhatred of marriage
- vagotomy
- blossomy
- gorblimy
- polysemythe ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings
- toponymythe nomenclature of regional anatomy
- aeronomy
- allogamycross-fertilization in plants
- antonymythe semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express opposite meanings
- autogamyself-fertilization in plants
- colotomy
- didynamy
- endogamymarriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
- eurythmythe interpretation in harmonious bodily movements of the rhythm of musical compositions; used to teach musical understanding
- hologamy
- homogamy
- monosomychromosomal abnormality consisting of the absence of one chromosome from the normal diploid number
- sunbeamy
- synonymythe semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning
- tenotomy
- theonomy
- vasotomysurgical incision into or division of the vas deferens
- xenogamy
- xylotomy