| AGONY | • agony n. Extreme pain. • agony n. (Biblical) The sufferings of Jesus Christ in the garden of Gethsemane. • agony n. Violent contest or striving. |
| ANNOY | • annoy v. (Transitive) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds. • annoy v. (Intransitive) To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome. • annoy v. (Transitive) To molest; to harm; to injure. |
| ANOMY | • anomy n. Alternative spelling of anomie. • ANOMY n. (French) a condition of hopelessness caused or characterized by breakdown of rules of conduct and loss of belief and sense of purpose, also ANOMIE. |
| ANYON | • anyon n. (Physics) Any particle that obeys a continuum of quantum statistics, only two of which are the standard… • ANYON n. an elementary particle having properties intermediate between those of bosons and fermions. |
| ATONY | • atony n. Lack of muscle tone; flaccidity or atonia. • ATONY n. muscular debility, also ATONIA. |
| AYONT | • ayont adv. (Scotland, Northern England) Beyond. • ayont prep. (Scotland, Northern England) Beyond. • AYONT adv. (archaic) beyond. |
| CYANO | • cyano n. (Chemistry, especially in combination) a univalent functional group, -CN, consisting of a carbon and… • cyano- pref. Dark blue-green in colour. • cyano- pref. (Chemistry) derived from cyanogen or a cyanide / nitrile. |
| NOWAY | • noway adv. In no manner or degree; not at all; nowise; no way. • no␣way adv. (Now archaic or regional) in no way; not at all. • no␣way interj. (Idiomatic) Absolutely not; under no circumstances. |
| NOYAU | • noyau n. A French liqueur made at Poissy in north central France from brandy and flavoured with almonds and the… • noyau n. (Ethology) A small nucleus or core group of people or animals. • NOYAU n. (French) a liqueur made from brandy flavoured with bitter almonds or peach-stones. |
| ONLAY | • onlay v. (Transitive, literary) To lay or place something on a surface. • onlay n. (Often attributive) A material placed such that it overlaps another. • ONLAY n. an artificial veneer for a tooth. |
| RAYON | • rayon n. A manufactured regenerated cellulosic fiber. • rayon n. Alternative spelling of raion. • rayon n. (Obsolete) A ray or beam. |
| SAYON | • sayon n. (Historical) A medieval peasant’s sleeveless jacket. • SAYON n. a jacket. |
| YAPON | • yapon n. (Now less common than "yaupon") Alternative form of yaupon. • YAPON n. a bushy evergreen shrub of the holly genus, also YAUPON, YOUPON, YUPON. |
| YOJAN | • yojan n. Alternative form of yojana. • YOJAN n. (Hindi) in the Indian subcontinent, a measure of distance, also YOJANA. |