8-Letter Words Containing: N,O,R,Y

• the official symbols of a family, state, etc.

• sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding

• hormone produced by the thyroid glands to regulate metabolism by controlling the rate of oxidation in cells

• conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')

• any of a group of crystalline silicate mineral common in igneous and metamorphic rocks

• an onyx characterized by parallel layers of sard and a different colored mineral

• an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority