7-letter words containing a, b, y
- ladyboy — (especially in Thailand) a transvestite.
- ladybug — any of numerous small, round, often brightly colored and spotted beetles of the family Coccinellidae, feeding chiefly on aphids and other small insects, but including several forms that feed on plants.
- lamboys — a skirt-like piece of armour made from metal strips
- layback — Figure Skating. a spin, usually performed by a woman, in which the upper body is arched backward and the free leg lifted and turned out from the hip.
- library — a place set apart to contain books, periodicals, and other material for reading, viewing, listening, study, or reference, as a room, set of rooms, or building where books may be read or borrowed.
- likably — Alternative spelling of likeably.
- lovably — of such a nature as to attract love; deserving love; amiable; endearing.
- lullaby — a song used to lull a child to sleep; cradlesong.
- marybud — a bud of a marigold
- maybeck — Bernard, 1862–1957, U.S. architect.
- maybird — the bobolink.
- maybush — a flowering shrub, Crataegus monogyna, that is native to Europe, northwestern Africa and western Asia, and that produces small white flowers
- movably — So as to make movable.
- mutably — In a mutable manner.
- notably — worthy of note or notice; noteworthy: a notable success; a notable theory.
- obolary — poor or having only coins of low value in one's possession
- ojibway — Ojibwa.
- pageboy — a hair style in which the hair is rolled under, usually at shoulder-length.
- pass by — go past
- payable — to be paid; due: a loan payable in 30 days.
- payably — profitably
- payback — the period of time required to recoup a capital investment.
- paystub — A paystub is a piece of paper given to an employee when he or she is paid stating how much money has been earned and how much has been taken from that sum for things such as tax.
- peabody — Elizabeth Palmer, 1804–94, U.S. educator and reformer: founded the first kindergarten in the U.S.
- playboy — a man who pursues a life of pleasure without responsibility or attachments, especially one who is of comfortable means.
- playbus — a mobile playground
- rabbity — any of several soft-furred, large-eared, rodentlike burrowing mammals of the family Leporidae, allied with the hares and pikas in the order Lagomorpha, having a divided upper lip and long hind legs, usually smaller than the hares and mainly distinguished from them by bearing blind and furless young in nests rather than fully developed young in the open.
- rabidly — irrationally extreme in opinion or practice: a rabid isolationist; a rabid baseball fan.
- ratably — capable of being rated or appraised.
- raybans — a brand of sunglasses
- rayburn — Sam, 1882–1961, U.S. lawyer and political leader: Speaker of the House 1940–47, 1949–53, 1955–61.
- red bay — an evergreen tree, Persea borbonia, of the eastern coast of the U.S., having faintly bluish-green leaves and blue or blue-black, red-stalked fruit, grown as an ornamental.
- rosebay — any of several rhododendrons, as the great laurel of eastern North America or Rhododendron macrophyllum, of the west coast of North America.
- sabayon — zabaglione.
- sassaby — a large, blackish-red South African antelope, Damaliscus lunatus, having curved horns.
- sayable — of the sort that can be said or spoken; utterable: He felt a great deal that was not sayable.
- seabury — Samuel, 1729–96, American clergyman: first bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
- shambly — characterized by awkward, lazy, or unsteady movements, esp in walking
- sibylla — an Asian maiden who gained from her lover Apollo the gift of prophecy and long life.
- sickbay — a hospital or dispensary, especially aboard ship.
- soybean — a bushy Old World plant, Glycine max, of the legume family, grown in the U.S., chiefly for forage and soil improvement.
- squabby — short and stout; squat.
- standby — a staunch supporter or adherent; one who can be relied upon.
- sybaris — an ancient Greek city in S Italy: noted for its wealth and luxury; destroyed 510 b.c.
- syllabi — a plural of syllabus.
- tab key — on a computer or typewriter keyboard, the key you press to move forward along a line for a few spaces at a time
- tallboy — English Furniture. a chest of drawers supported by a low stand. Compare highboy. a chest-on-chest.
- tea boy — a boy who makes tea for the workers in a place such as an office
- traybit — a former term for a coin worth three pence
- tunably — in a way that is able to be tuned