8-letter words containing b, o, y, a
- boyarism — the rule of the boyars
- broadway — a thoroughfare in New York City, famous for its theatres: the centre of the commercial theatre in the US
- bryozoan — any aquatic invertebrate animal of the phylum Bryozoa, forming colonies of polyps each having a ciliated feeding organ (lophophore)
- bulawayo — a city in SW Zimbabwe founded (1893) on the site of the kraal of Lobengula, the last Matabele king; the country's main industrial centre. Pop: 693 000 (2005 est)
- buoyance — the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
- buoyancy — Buoyancy is the ability that something has to float on a liquid or in the air.
- buy boat — a boat sent out by a dealer to purchase the catches of fishing vessels.
- calbayog — a city in the Philippines, on NW Samar.
- callboys — Plural form of callboy.
- can buoy — a buoy with a flat-topped cylindrical shape above water, marking the left side of a channel leading into a harbour: red in British waters but green (occasionally black) in US waters
- carbonyl — of, consisting of, or containing the divalent group =CO
- carboxyl — the group COOH, characteristic of organic acids, including fatty acids and amino acids
- clayborn — a male given name.
- coos bay — a town in SW Oregon.
- copyable — able to be copied
- corybant — a wild attendant of the goddess Cybele
- cryobank — a facility for storing living tissue, such as sperm, embryos, cells, etc, at a low temperature
- cymbalom — cimbalom
- dan buoy — a small buoy used as a marker at sea
- daybooks — Plural form of daybook.
- fat body — a diffuse tissue of insects, having numerous functions including food storage, metabolism, and storage of wastes and in some insects modified as a light-producing organ.
- flyboats — Plural form of flyboat.
- formably — formally
- game boy — a handheld games console, made by the company Nintendo, which was popular in the 1990s
- globally — pertaining to the whole world; worldwide; universal: the dream of global peace.
- guaynabo — a city in N Puerto Rico, SE of Bayamón.
- gynobase — an elevation of the receptacle of a flower, bearing the gynoecium.
- hardbody — a person who is muscular and physically fit.
- hautboys — Plural form of hautboy.
- 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.
- layabout — a lazy or idle person; loafer.
- libatory — relating to libation
- lock bay — a broadened section of a canal before the gates of a lock.
- lombardy — a region and former kingdom in N Italy. 9190 sq. mi. (23,800 sq. km).
- maccaboy — a kind of snuff, usually rose-scented.
- may-blob — marsh marigold.
- metaboly — the ability of some cells, esp protozoans, to alter their shape
- moneybag — a bag for money.
- moveably — in a movable manner
- myoblast — any of the cells derived from the mesoderm in the vertebrate embryo that develop into muscle tissue.
- nancyboy — (slang, derogatory) An effeminate or homosexual man.
- obduracy — the state or quality of being obdurate.
- obeyable — to comply with or follow the commands, restrictions, wishes, or instructions of: to obey one's parents.
- obituary — a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.
- oblately — In an oblate manner.
- oblatory — Of or pertaining to oblation; oblational.
- orbitary — the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.