Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 8-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like NY often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: acrimony, agrimony, antimony.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| acrimony | 8 | 4 | |
| agrimony | 8 | 4 | |
| antimony | 8 | 4 | |
| apophony | 8 | 4 | |
| autogeny | 8 | 4 | |
| bigeminy | 8 | 4 | |
| cartoony | 8 | 3 | |
| ceremony | 8 | 4 | |
| cryogeny | 8 | 3 | |
| cushiony | 8 | 3 | |
| cytogeny | 8 | 4 | |
| diaphony | 8 | 3 | |
| duopsony | 8 | 3 | |
| endogeny | 8 | 4 | |
| epiphany | 8 | 4 | |
| gluttony | 8 | 3 | |
| hegemony | 8 | 4 | |
| hegumeny | 8 | 4 | |
| hologyny | 8 | 4 | |
| homogeny | 8 | 4 | |
| homogony | 8 | 4 | |
| hypogyny | 8 | 4 | |
| ignominy | 8 | 4 | |
| lysogeny | 8 | 4 | |
| mahogany | 8 | 4 | |
| misogyny | 8 | 4 | |
| monogeny | 8 | 4 | |
| monogyny | 8 | 4 | |
| monotony | 8 | 4 | |
| ontogeny | 8 | 4 | |
| overmany | 8 | 4 | |
| palimony | 8 | 4 | |
| perigyny | 8 | 4 | |
| polygony | 8 | 4 | |
| polygyny | 8 | 4 | |
| polyteny | 8 | 4 | |
| scammony | 8 | 3 | |
| scrutiny | 8 | 3 | |
| sixpenny | 8 | 3 | |
| stramony | 8 | 3 | |
| sunshiny | 8 | 3 | |
| symphony | 8 | 3 | |
| telegony | 8 | 4 | |
| tenpenny | 8 | 3 | |
| theogony | 8 | 3 | |
| tuppenny | 8 | 3 | |
| twopenny | 8 | 3 | |
| villainy | 8 | 3 | |
| xenogeny | 8 | 4 |
What’s typical about NY-ending words?
NY often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.