8-letter words containing a, b, y
- backstay — a stay leading aft from the upper part of a mast to the deck or stern
- backyard — A backyard is an area of land at the back of a house.
- bacronym — Alternative spelling of backronym.
- badgerly — resembling a badger
- bag lady — A bag lady is a homeless woman who carries her possessions in shopping bags.
- balayage — a technique for highlighting hair in which bleach or dye is painted onto sections of the hair with a brush
- ball boy — In a tennis match, the ball boys pick up any balls that go into the net or off the court and throw them back to the players. In a baseball game, the ball boys are in charge of collecting the balls that are hit out of the field.
- balladry — ballad poetry or songs
- ballclay — a type of fine-grained clay suitable for making ceramics
- ballyard — a baseball ground
- ballyboe — (Ireland, historical) A townland in Ulster.
- ballyhoo — You can use ballyhoo to refer to great excitement or anger about something, especially when you disapprove of it because you think it is unnecessary or exaggerated.
- ballyrag — bullyrag.
- baloneys — Plural form of baloney.
- balywick — Alternative form of bailiwick.
- banality — the condition or quality of being banal, or devoid of freshness or originality: the banality of everyday life.
- banditry — Banditry is used to refer to acts of robbery and violence in areas where the rule of law has broken down.
- bandying — to pass from one to another or back and forth; give and take; trade; exchange: to bandy blows; to bandy words.
- bandyman — the driver of a bandy; a cart driver
- bangalay — a myrtaceous Australian tree, Eucalyptus botryoides, valued for its hard red wood
- bankerly — relating to or resembling a banker
- banyalla — Victorian box.
- barangay — The smallest administrative division in the Philippines; a village, district, or ward.
- barberry — any spiny berberidaceous shrub of the widely distributed genus Berberis, esp B. vulgaris, having clusters of yellow flowers and orange or red berries: widely cultivated as hedge plants
- bareilly — a city in N India, in N central Uttar Pradesh. Pop: 699 839 (2001)
- barnsley — an industrial town in N England, in Barnsley unitary authority, South Yorkshire. Pop: 71 599 (2001)
- barnyard — On a farm, the barnyard is the area in front of or next to a barn.
- barology — (obsolete, physics) The science of gravity or weight.
- barratry — (formerly) the vexatious stirring up of quarrels or bringing of lawsuits
- barrenly — Unfruitfully; unproductively.
- barretry — barratry
- baryonic — of or relating to a baryon
- barytone — having the last syllable unaccented
- base pay — the basic rate of pay for a particular job exclusive of overtime pay, bonuses, etc.
- basicity — the state of being a base
- basilary — Basilar.
- basketry — Basketry is baskets made by weaving together thin strips of materials such as wood.
- bastardy — the condition of being a bastard; illegitimacy
- batology — the study of members of the species Rubus
- bay area — region in W Calif., generally consisting of the counties surrounding San Francisco Bay
- bay city — a lake port in E Michigan, near the mouth of the Saginaw River.
- bay leaf — A bay leaf is a leaf of an evergreen tree that can be dried and used as a herb in cooking.
- bay lynx — bobcat
- bay salt — salt derived by evaporating seawater in the sun.
- bay tree — laurel (def 1).
- bayadere — a dancing girl, esp one serving in a Hindu temple
- bayberry — any of several North American aromatic shrubs or small trees of the genus Myrica, that bear grey waxy berries: family Myricaceae
- bayesian — (of a theory) presupposing known a priori probabilities which may be subjectively assessed and which can be revised in the light of experience in accordance with Bayes' theorem. A hypothesis is thus confirmed by an experimental observation which is likely given the hypothesis and unlikely without it
- bayonets — Plural form of bayonet.
- bayreuth — a city in E Germany, in NE Bavaria: home and burial place of Richard Wagner; annual festivals of his music. Pop: 74 818 (2003 est)