8-letter words containing a, y, r, s
- sacristy — an apartment in or a building connected with a church or a religious house, in which the sacred vessels, vestments, etc., are kept.
- saddlery — saddles, harnesses, and other equipment for horses.
- saffrony — saffron-coloured
- sailyard — a yard for a sail.
- saleyard — an area with pens for holding animals before auction
- salivary — a viscid, watery fluid, secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands, that functions in the tasting, chewing, and swallowing of food, moistens the mouth, and starts the digestion of starches.
- salutary — favorable to or promoting health; healthful.
- samplery — the making of samplers
- sanatory — favorable for health; curative; healing.
- sanitary — of or relating to health or the conditions affecting health, especially with reference to cleanliness, precautions against disease, etc.
- sardonyx — a chalcedony that is used for cameos and has sard and chalcedony of another color, usually white, arranged in straight parallel bands.
- saturday — the seventh day of the week, following Friday.
- satyrisk — a small satyr
- savagery — an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition; barbarity.
- savourly — in a savouring or enjoyable manner; passionately
- savoyard — a native or inhabitant of Savoy.
- sayonara — a Japanese farewell
- scarcely — barely; hardly; not quite: The light is so dim we can scarcely see.
- scarcity — insufficiency or shortness of supply; dearth.
- scattery — characterized by scattering or dispersion
- schryari — a musical woodwind instrument of the 16th and 17th centuries having a double reed concealed in a cylinder and producing a shrill tone.
- scrabbly — insignificantly small or sparse: scrabbly tufts of grass sprouting from the parched lawn.
- scraggly — irregular; uneven; jagged.
- scratchy — causing or liable to cause a slight grating noise: a scratchy record.
- 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
- shipyard — a yard or enclosure in which ships are built or repaired.
- showyard — a yard where cattle and machinery are displayed
- siserary — a scolding
- skyboard — a sport that is similar to skydiving but uses a special lightweight board (skyboard) attached to the feet and usually equipped with a parachute.
- slabbery — slobbery.
- slattery — slovenly
- smarmily — excessively or unctuously flattering, ingratiating, servile, etc.: the emcee with the smarmy welcome.
- smyrnean — of or relating to Smyrna, Turkey.
- snailery — a place where snails are bred
- snarkily — in an irritable or snarky manner
- soaraway — If you describe something as a soaraway success, you mean that its success has suddenly increased.
- solidary — characterized by or involving community of responsibilities and interests.
- solitary — alone; without companions; unattended: a solitary passer-by.
- spagyric — pertaining to or resembling alchemy; alchemic.
- sparkily — in a sparky manner
- sparsely — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- sparsity — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- spermary — an organ in which spermatozoa are generated; testis.
- sprauncy — smart or showy in appearance
- spray-on — applied by means of an aerosol spray
- spunyarn — small stuff made from rope yarns twisted together
- squarely — in a square shape, form, or manner.