8-letter words containing a, i, y
- playbill — a program or announcement of a play.
- playgirl — a woman who pursues a life of pleasure without responsibility or attachments, especially one who is of comfortable means.
- playlist — a list of the recordings to be played on the radio during a particular program or time period, often including their sequence, duration, etc.
- playslip — a form used to nominate numbers in a lottery draw
- playsuit — a sports costume for women and children, usually consisting of shorts and a shirt, worn as beachwear, for tennis, etc.
- playtime — time for play or recreation.
- podiatry — the care of the human foot, especially the diagnosis and treatment of foot disorders.
- polarity — Physics. the property or characteristic that produces unequal physical effects at different points in a body or system, as a magnet or storage battery. the positive or negative state in which a body reacts to a magnetic, electric, or other field.
- polyacid — having more than one replaceable hydrogen atom.
- polyadic — (of a relation, operation, etc) having several argument places, as … moves … from … to …, which might be represented as Mpox1y1z1t1x2y2z2t2 where p names a person, o an object, and each t a time, and each <x,y,z> the coordinates of a place
- polyuria — the passing of an excessive quantity of urine, as in diabetes, in certain nervous diseases, etc.
- ponytail — an arrangement of the hair in a long lock drawn tightly against the back of the head and cinched so as to hang loosely.
- popinjay — a person given to vain, pretentious displays and empty chatter; coxcomb; fop.
- primally — in a primal manner
- ptyalism — excessive secretion of saliva.
- ptyalize — to induce the flow of saliva
- pycnidia — (in certain ascomycetes and fungi imperfecti) a globose or flask-shaped fruiting body bearing conidia on conidiophores.
- pyinkado — a leguminous tree, Xylia xylocarpa (or dolabriformis), native to India and Myanmar
- pyramids — Architecture. (in ancient Egypt) a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb. (in ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Central America) a quadrilateral masonry mass, stepped and sharply sloping, used as a tomb or a platform for a temple.
- pyranoid — relating to the structure of a pyranose
- qingyuan — former name of Baoding.
- quagmiry — relating to a quagmire
- quaintly — having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque: a quaint old house.
- quantify — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- quantity — a particular or indefinite amount of anything: a small quantity of milk; the ocean's vast quantity of fish.
- quaylike — resembling a quay
- quayside — the area bordering and around a quay or quays.
- queasily — inclined to or feeling nausea, as the stomach, a person, etc.; nauseous; nauseated.
- quiddany — a type of quince jelly
- rabbitry — a collection of rabbits.
- rabidity — irrationally extreme in opinion or practice: a rabid isolationist; a rabid baseball fan.
- racially — of or relating to the social construct of race: racial diversity; racial stereotypes.
- radially — arranged like radii or rays.
- radiancy — radiance.
- ragingly — angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination): a speech full of rage; incidents of road rage.
- raillery — good-humored ridicule; banter.
- rallying — the sport of driving in automobile rallies.
- rallyist — a person who participates in automobile rallies.
- rancidly — in a rancid manner
- rapacity — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- rapidity — a rapid state or quality; quickness; celerity.
- rayleigh — John William Strutt [struht] /strʌt/ (Show IPA), 3rd Baron, 1842–1919, English physicist: Nobel prize 1904.
- readying — completely prepared or in fit condition for immediate action or use: troops ready for battle; Dinner is ready.
- regality — royalty, sovereignty, or kingship.
- relaying — re-lay.
- reliably — that may be relied on or trusted; dependable in achievement, accuracy, honesty, etc.: reliable information.
- repacify — to pacify again
- retiracy — retirement
- rezaiyeh — a city in NW Iran.
- ribaldry — ribald character, as of language; scurrility.