8-letter words containing b, a, e, y
- greyback — grayback.
- gynobase — an elevation of the receptacle of a flower, bearing the gynoecium.
- hagberry — Prunus padus, a species of cherry native to northern Europe and northern Asia, the bird cherry.
- hay bale — block of dried grass
- head boy — The head boy of a school is the boy who is the leader of the prefects and who often represents the school on public occasions.
- hylobate — Any of the genus Hylobates of gibbons.
- kablooey — (colloquial) alternative spelling of kablooie.
- keyboard — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- kielbasy — a smoked sausage of coarsely chopped beef and pork, flavored with garlic and spices.
- lambency — the quality of being lambent.
- lay bare — to reveal or explain
- lazy bed — (in parts of Scotland and Ireland, formerly) a patch in which potatoes were cultivated by laying them on the surface and covering them with kelp and with soil from a trench on either side of the bed
- likeably — In a likeable way.
- mangabey — any of several slender, long-tailed monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, inhabiting forests of Africa: some species are endangered.
- marybeth — a female given name.
- mealybug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- megabyte — 2 20 (1,048,576) bytes.
- metaboly — the ability of some cells, esp protozoans, to alter their shape
- moneybag — a bag for money.
- moveably — in a movable manner
- myxameba — the amebalike, usually nonflagellated, uninucleate haploid individual of a sporocarp that is released upon spore germination and feeds by engulfing bacteria and yeast: a typical stage in the life cycle of cellular slime molds.
- obeyable — to comply with or follow the commands, restrictions, wishes, or instructions of: to obey one's parents.
- oblately — In an oblate manner.
- paperboy — a youth or man who sells newspapers on the street or delivers them to homes; newsboy.
- passerby — a person passing by.
- payables — debts to be paid
- peaberry — a single seed coffee berry; a round coffee bean
- petabyte — 2 50 bytes, or 1,024 terabytes.
- playable — capable of or suitable for being played.
- rateably — capable of being rated or appraised.
- readably — easy or interesting to read.
- reliably — that may be relied on or trusted; dependable in achievement, accuracy, honesty, etc.: reliable information.
- rockabye — used in lullabies or nursery rhymes to encourage a baby to sleep
- rubygate — an Italian political scandal in which Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was accused of paying for sex with a nightclub dancer and of abusing his office
- ryebread — any of various breads made entirely or partly from rye flour, often with caraway seeds
- sizeably — sizable.
- slabbery — slobbery.
- slayable — that may be slain for good reason
- sneaksby — an insignificant or cowardly person
- swayable — to move or swing to and fro, as something fixed at one end or resting on a support.
- 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.
- syllable — an uninterrupted segment of speech consisting of a vowel sound, a diphthong, or a syllabic consonant, with or without preceding or following consonant sounds: “Eye,” “sty,” “act,” and “should” are English words of one syllable. “Eyelet,” “stifle,” “enact,” and “shouldn't” are two-syllable words.
- tayberry — a hybrid shrub produced by crossing a blackberry, raspberry, and loganberry
- teaberry — the spicy red fruit of the American wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens.
- terabyte — 2 40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes; 1024 gigabytes.
- traybake — a flat, usually chewy cake which is baked in a tray, cut into small squares, and served as a biscuit
- urbanely — having the polish and suavity regarded as characteristic of sophisticated social life in major cities: an urbane manner.
- verbally — of or relating to words: verbal ability.
- waterboy — Alternative spelling of water boy.