8-letter words containing a, p, l, y
- fly-past — a ceremonial flight of aircraft over a given area
- flypaper — paper designed to destroy flies by catching them on its sticky surface or poisoning them on contact.
- flyspray — a liquid used to destroy flies and other insects, sprayed from an aerosol
- flytraps — Plural form of flytrap.
- foreplay — sexual stimulation of one's partner, usually as a prelude to sexual intercourse.
- fourplay — Quad play.
- full pay — the full amount of wages of salary
- gameplay — The tactical aspects of a computer game, such as its plot and the way it is played, as distinct from the graphics and sound effects.
- gapingly — In a gaping way.
- half pay — half one's regular pay.
- haploidy — (genetics) The state of being haploid.
- hypalgia — reduced sensitivity to pain
- hypogeal — underground; subterranean.
- i-player — a service provided by the BBC, allowing its recently broadcast television programmes to be viewed over the internet
- kalyptra — a veil worn by women in Greece
- ladypalm — a type of small palm of the genus Rhapis, popularly grown as an indoor plant
- ladyship — (often initial capital letter) the form used in speaking of or to a woman having the title of Lady (usually preceded by her or your).
- lampreys — Plural form of lamprey.
- lampyrid — any of several beetles of the family Lampyridae, comprising the fireflies.
- lapidary — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- lapidify — To become stone or stony.
- lay open — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- leap day — February 29: the extra day added to the Gregorian calendar in leap year.
- lily pad — the large, floating leaf of a water lily.
- lyallpur — a city in NE Pakistan.
- lymphoma — a tumor arising from any of the cellular elements of lymph nodes.
- mayapple — American plant
- maypoles — Plural form of maypole.
- misapply — to make a wrong application or use of.
- naphthyl — containing the naphthyl group.
- net play — play made from a position close to the net
- olympiad — a period of four years reckoned from one celebration of the Olympic Games to the next, by which the Greeks computed time from 776 b.c.
- olympian — pertaining to Mount Olympus or dwelling thereon, as the gods of classical Greece.
- opaquely — not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not allowing light to pass through.
- overplay — to exaggerate or overemphasize (one's role in a play, an emotion, an effect, etc.): The young actor overplayed Hamlet shamelessly. The director of the movie had overplayed the pathos.
- pale dry — light in color and not sweet
- pale-dry — light-colored and medium-sweet: pale-dry ginger ale.
- palilogy — the technique of repeating a word or phrase for emphasis.
- palimony — a form of alimony awarded to one of the partners in a romantic relationship after the breakup of that relationship following a long period of living together.
- pallidly — pale; faint or deficient in color; wan: a pallid countenance.
- pally up — to become friends (with)
- palm bay — a town in E Florida.
- palpably — readily or plainly seen, heard, perceived, etc.; obvious; evident: a palpable lie; palpable absurdity.
- panderly — in the manner of a pander
- paralogy — false reasoning
- paralyse — to affect with paralysis.
- paralyze — to affect with paralysis.
- parlayed — to bet or gamble (an original amount and its winnings) on a subsequent race, contest, etc.
- passably — fairly; moderately: a passably good novel.
- pastorly — of or relating to a pastor