8-letter words containing a, y, r, e, s
- mayoress — a woman who is the chief executive official of a city, village, or town.
- mersalyl — a salt of sodium, C13H16HgNNaO6, which was formerly used as a diuretic
- midyears — Plural form of midyear.
- naysayer — a person who habitually expresses negative or pessimistic views: Despite a general feeling that things were going well, a few naysayers tried to cast gloom.
- overeasy — too easy
- overstay — to stay beyond the time, limit, or duration of; outstay: to overstay one's welcome.
- oversway — to overrule
- paralyse — to affect with paralysis.
- passerby — a person passing by.
- psaltery — an ancient musical instrument consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings which are plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum.
- pyranose — any monosaccharide having a pyran ring structure.
- raceways — Plural form of raceway.
- rest day — a holiday; a day when people do not have to work
- rosemary — an evergreen shrub, Rosmarinus officinalis, of the mint family, native to the Mediterranean region, having leathery, narrow leaves and pale-blue, bell-shaped flowers, used as a seasoning and in perfumery and medicine: a traditional symbol of remembrance.
- rothesay — a town in the Strathclyde region, on Bute island, in SW Scotland: resort; ruins of 11th-century castle.
- ruysdael — Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˌyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1628?–82, Dutch painter.
- ryegrass — any of several European grasses of the genus Lolium, as L. perenne (perennial ryegrass) grown for forage in the U.S.
- sacredly — devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated.
- saddlery — saddles, harnesses, and other equipment for horses.
- saleyard — an area with pens for holding animals before auction
- samplery — the making of samplers
- savagery — an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition; barbarity.
- scarcely — barely; hardly; not quite: The light is so dim we can scarcely see.
- scattery — characterized by scattering or dispersion
- seminary — a special school providing education in theology, religious history, etc., primarily to prepare students for the priesthood, ministry, or rabbinate.
- serially — anything published, broadcast, etc., in short installments at regular intervals, as a novel appearing in successive issues of a magazine.
- sexenary — senary.
- shattery — (of rock or soil) liable to shatter or crumble
- siserary — a scolding
- slabbery — slobbery.
- slattery — slovenly
- smyrnean — of or relating to Smyrna, Turkey.
- snailery — a place where snails are bred
- sparsely — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- spermary — an organ in which spermatozoa are generated; testis.
- squarely — in a square shape, form, or manner.
- staggery — tending to stagger
- star key — a push button on a telephone or other electronic device that is marked with an asterisk, often in the lower left-hand area.
- sternway — Nautical. the movement of a vessel backward, or stern foremost.
- strachey — (Giles) Lytton [jahylz lit-n] /dʒaɪlz ˈlɪt n/ (Show IPA), 1880–1932, English biographer and literary critic.
- strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
- surveyal — the action of surveying
- swannery — a place where swans are raised.
- swear by — to make a solemn declaration or affirmation by some sacred being or object, as a deity or the Bible.
- sybarite — (usually lowercase) a person devoted to luxury and pleasure.
- 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.
- sylvaner — a white grape grown in the Alsace region of France and in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria.
- syracuse — a city in central New York.
- tapestry — a fabric consisting of a warp upon which colored threads are woven by hand to produce a design, often pictorial, used for wall hangings, furniture coverings, etc.
- travesty — a grotesque or debased likeness or imitation: a travesty of justice.