8-letter words containing a, c, r, o, y
- dormancy — the state of being dormant.
- dyschroa — an alteration of colour on the skin
- falconry — the sport of hunting with falcons, hawks, eagles, etc.; hawking.
- geocarpy — the ripening of fruits below ground, as occurs in the peanut
- hardcopy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- holarchy — a system composed of interacting holons
- hydropac — an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Pacific Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
- hyracoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the mammalian order Hyracoidea, which contains the hyraxes
- isocracy — a government in which all individuals have equal political power.
- monarchy — a state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch. Compare absolute monarchy, limited monarchy.
- mordancy — the quality of being mordant; sharpness.
- neocracy — Government by the new or inexperienced.
- noctuary — a journal of what happens in the night
- nomarchy — one of the provinces into which modern Greece is divided.
- normalcy — the quality or condition of being normal, as the general economic, political, and social conditions of a nation; normality: After months of living in a state of tension, all yearned for a return to normalcy.
- obduracy — the state or quality of being obdurate.
- octarchy — a government by eight persons.
- octonary — pertaining to the number 8.
- polyarch — (of a woody tissue) having multiple points of origin
- polycarp — Saint, a.d. 69?–155, bishop of Smyrna and a Christian martyr.
- rockabye — used in lullabies or nursery rhymes to encourage a baby to sleep
- rockaway — a light, four-wheeled carriage having two or three seats and a fixed top.
- sycamore — Also called buttonwood. any of several North American plane trees, especially Platanus occidentalis, having shallowly lobed ovate leaves, globular seed heads, and wood valued as timber.
- voracity — the condition or quality of being voracious.
- waycross — a city in SE Georgia.
- xylocarp — a fruit, such as a coconut, having a hard woody pericarp
- zircaloy — any of various alloys containing about 98% zirconium, 1.5% tin, etc., that are resistant to corrosion and high temperatures and are used to contain fuel in nuclear reactors, etc.