8-letter words containing a, c, r, y
- cowardly — If you describe someone as cowardly, you disapprove of them because they are easily frightened and avoid doing dangerous and difficult things.
- cowardry — Lb uncommon Cowardice.
- crabbily — in a crabby manner
- craftily — skillful in underhand or evil schemes; cunning; deceitful; sly.
- craggily — full of crags.
- cramoisy — of a crimson colour
- cranefly — A cranefly is a harmless flying insect with long legs.
- crankily — In a cranky manner.
- cravenly — In a craven manner.
- crawlway — a low passageway in a cave or mine that can only be negotiated by crawling
- crayfish — A crayfish is a small shellfish with five pairs of legs which lives in rivers and streams. You can eat some types of crayfish.
- crayoned — Simple past tense and past participle of crayon.
- creakily — creaking or apt to creak: a creaky stairway.
- creamery — A creamery is a place where milk and cream are made into butter and cheese.
- creamily — In a creamy manner.
- creatify — To edit, rewrite, and/or revise standard text using creative writing tools and techniques.
- croakily — In a croaky manner.
- crossway — a junction
- cryobank — a facility for storing living tissue, such as sperm, embryos, cells, etc, at a low temperature
- cryonaut — a person whose dead body has been preserved by the technique of cryonics.
- cryostat — an apparatus for maintaining a constant low temperature or a vessel in which a substance is stored at a low temperature
- cryptand — (chemistry) any of a class of polycyclic compounds related to the crown ethers, having three chains attached at two nitrogen atoms.
- crystall — Obsolete form of crystal.
- crystals — Plural form of crystal.
- culinary — Culinary means concerned with cooking.
- curatory — the office of a curator
- curranty — full of currants
- custardy — resembling custard
- cyanuret — cyanide
- cyanuric — of or derived from cyanuric acid.
- cyberwar — The use of computers to disrupt the activities of an enemy country, especially the deliberate attacking of communication systems.
- cyclecar — a light, open-air automobile with three or four wheels
- cyrenaic — (in the ancient world) of or relating to the city of Cyrene or the territory of Cyrenaica
- cytaster — aster.
- cytherea — Aphrodite
- dactylar — of or pertaining to a dactyl
- dancerly — characteristic of or moving like a dancer; having the skills or physique of a dancer.
- day care — Day care is care that is provided during the day for people who cannot look after themselves, such as small children, old people, or people who are ill. Day care is provided by paid workers.
- day-care — of, relating to, or providing day care: day-care center; day-care program.
- deaconry — the office or status of a deacon
- decenary — of or relating to a tithing
- dinarchy — duarchy.
- dockyard — a waterside area containing docks, workshops, warehouses, etc., for building, outfitting, and repairing ships, for storing naval supplies, etc.
- dormancy — the state of being dormant.
- dyschroa — an alteration of colour on the skin
- e-piracy — the illegal uploading of digital copies of copyrighted works to a website, or the illegal downloading of such material.
- endarchy — a central government
- falconry — the sport of hunting with falcons, hawks, eagles, etc.; hawking.
- federacy — a confederacy.
- feracity — (obsolete) The state of being feracious, or fruitful.