8-letter words containing h, y, a
- myograph — an instrument for recording the contractions and relaxations of muscles.
- myopathy — any abnormality or disease of muscle tissue.
- myriadth — constituting a very small part of a thing
- mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
- nannyish — Like a nanny; tending to coddle.
- naphthyl — containing the naphthyl group.
- naughtly — (obsolete) naughtily; wrongly.
- naumachy — naumachia.
- navarchy — experience of or skill in nautical matters
- nomarchy — one of the provinces into which modern Greece is divided.
- nonhairy — Not hairy.
- nonhappy — (philosophy) Not happy.
- nonhardy — characterized by fragility or incapable of surviving under difficult conditions
- nymphaea — a room or area having a fountain, statues, flowers, etc.
- nymphean — Of or pertaining to a nymph or nymphs.
- oafishly — In an oafish manner.
- octarchy — a government by eight persons.
- omophagy — The eating of raw food, especially raw meat.
- pamphrey — a cabbage
- pansophy — universal wisdom or knowledge.
- patchery — the act of hurriedly patching something together
- patchily — characterized by or made up of patches.
- paycheck — a bank check given as salary or wages.
- payphone — a public telephone requiring that the caller deposit coins or use a credit card to pay for a call.
- petchary — a grey kingbird, Tyrannus dominicensis
- phantasy — fantasy.
- pharmacy — Also called pharmaceutics. the art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines.
- phrygana — another name for garigue, used esp in Greece
- phrygian — of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their language.
- phylarch — the chief of a tribe in Ancient Greece, and in Athens, the head of a clan in battle, or generally, the chief of a tribe
- phylaxis — medical term for protection against infection
- phyllary — one of the bracts forming the involucre or the head or inflorescence of a composite plant.
- physalia — a marine invertebrate, often confused with a jellyfish, that has a painful sting
- physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- pitahaya — any of several cacti of the genus Lemaireocereus and related genera, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, bearing edible fruit.
- pith ray — medullary ray.
- play-doh — Play-Doh is a soft coloured substance like clay which children use for making models.
- polyarch — (of a woody tissue) having multiple points of origin
- polymath — a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
- pyorrhea — Pathology. a discharge of pus.
- rayleigh — John William Strutt [struht] /strʌt/ (Show IPA), 3rd Baron, 1842–1919, English physicist: Nobel prize 1904.
- rezaiyeh — a city in NW Iran.
- rhapsody — Music. an instrumental composition irregular in form and suggestive of improvisation.
- rhubarby — similar to or tasting like rhubarb
- rothesay — a town in the Strathclyde region, on Bute island, in SW Scotland: resort; ruins of 11th-century castle.
- salt hay — hay made up of salt grass, often used as fodder or as a mulch.
- sandyish — somewhat sandy
- sashayed — to glide, move, or proceed easily or nonchalantly: She just sashayed in as if she owned the place.
- say what — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
- say when — to state when an action is to be stopped or begun, as when someone is pouring a drink