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9-letter words containing n, a, y, s, t

  • myostatin — (protein) A protein that acts as an inhibitor to the growth of muscle tissue.
  • nastygram — (networking)   /nas'tee-gram/ 1. A network packet or e-mail message (the latter is also called a letterbomb) that takes advantage of misfeatures or security holes on the target system to do untoward things. 2. Disapproving e-mail, especially from a net.god, pursuant to a violation of netiquette or a complaint about failure to correct some mail- or news-transmission problem. Compare shitogram, mailbomb. 3. A status report from an unhappy, and probably picky, customer. "What did Corporate say in today's nastygram?" 4. [deprecated] An error reply by mail from a daemon; in particular, a bounce message.
  • navy list — (in Britain) an official list of all serving commissioned officers of the Royal Navy and reserve officers liable for recall
  • neoplasty — the surgical formation of new tissue structures or repair of damaged structures
  • nonsteady — not steady or stable; unsteady
  • nyctalops — a person affected by nyctalopia
  • nystagmic — Exhibiting or pertaining to nystagmus (involuntary eye movement).
  • nystagmus — a congenital or acquired persistent, rapid, involuntary, and oscillatory movement of the eyeball, usually from side to side.
  • obstinacy — the quality or state of being obstinate; stubbornness.
  • oscitancy — yawning, as with drowsiness; gaping.
  • oysterman — a person who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
  • pantyhose — (used with a plural verb) a one-piece, skintight garment worn by women, combining panties and stockings.
  • peasantry — peasants collectively.
  • salcantay — a mountain in the Andes in S central Peru: highest peak in the Cordillera Vilcabamba. 20,574 feet (6271 meters).
  • saliently — prominent or conspicuous: salient traits.
  • sanctuary — a sacred or holy place.
  • santayana — George, 1863–1952, Spanish philosopher and writer in the U.S.; in Europe after 1912.
  • saoshyant — the World Savior who will come at the end of time.
  • satyricon — a satirical novel, interspersed with verse, written in the 1st century a.d. by Petronius, extant in fragments.
  • sedentary — characterized by or requiring a sitting posture: a sedentary occupation.
  • septenary — of or relating to the number seven or forming a group of seven.
  • sergeanty — a form of land tenure in which a tenant holding of the king rendered him exclusive services in a status below that of a knight.
  • serjeanty — a form of land tenure in which a tenant holding of the king rendered him exclusive services in a status below that of a knight.
  • servantry — servants collectively, esp the servants of a particular establishment as a body
  • shantyman — a logger or lumberman
  • signatory — having signed, or joined in signing, a document: the signatory powers to a treaty.
  • sky train — elevated railway system
  • slantways — aslant; obliquely.
  • sonnetary — relating to sonnets
  • spiny rat — any of various ratlike rodents of the genus Echimys, inhabiting forests of Central and South America, most having bristly fur.
  • stagnancy — not flowing or running, as water, air, etc.
  • staminody — the metamorphosis of any of various flower organs, as a sepal or a petal, into a stamen.
  • standaway — (of a garment) designed or constructed to stand upright or extend outward from the body: a standaway collar.
  • staringly — in a staring way
  • stathenry — the electrostatic unit of inductance, equivalent to 8.9876 × 10 11 henries and equal to the inductance of a circuit in which an electromotive force of one statvolt is produced by a current in the circuit which varies at the rate of one statampere per second.
  • staunchly — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
  • stornoway — a city in NW Scotland, in the Hebrides.
  • strangely — unusual, extraordinary, or curious; odd; queer: a strange remark to make.
  • strangury — painful urination in which the urine is emitted drop by drop owing to muscle spasms of the urethra or urinary bladder.
  • strayhorn — William ("Billy") 1915–67, U.S. jazz pianist and composer: collaborator with Duke Ellington.
  • strayling — a stray
  • strychnia — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.
  • sycophant — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sylvanite — a mineral, gold silver telluride, (AuAg)Te 2 , silver-white with metallic luster, often occurring in crystals so arranged as to resemble written characters: an ore of gold.
  • sympathin — a substance released at certain sympathetic nerve endings: thought to be identical with adrenaline
  • synanthic — relating to synanthy
  • synaptase — a compound present in almonds and other oily seeds
  • syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
  • syncytial — a multinucleate mass of cytoplasm that is not separated into cells.
  • syndactyl — having certain digits joined together.
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