8-letter words containing h, y
- whiggery — the principles or practices of Whigs.
- whinyard — a sword
- whiskery — whiskers, a beard.
- whiskeys — Plural form of whiskey.
- whispery — like a whisper: a soft, whispery voice.
- whiteboy — (UK, US, slang, mildly, pejorative) A young Caucasian male.
- whitefly — any of several plant-sucking, homopterous insects of the family Aleyrodidae, having the body and wings dusted with a white, powdery wax, and being widely distributed chiefly in tropical regions where they are often serious crop pests, as Dialeurodes citri (citrus whitefly) commonly occurring on citrus trees, and Trialeurodes vaporariorum (greenhouse whitefly) inhabiting greenhouses.
- whiteley — Brett. 1939–1992, Australian artist, who travelled widely in Europe and Asia; his works include landscapes, nudes, and portraits
- whydunit — A type of detective story in which the focus is not on who committed the crime, but what were their motives for committing it.
- wilf hey — (person) The person who originally developed Report Program Generator and coined the phrase GIGO (garbage in: garbage out). In 2004, after more than forty years in computing, he was writing for PC Plus magazine in the UK and doing Wilf's programmers workshop amongst other things. He died on 2007-01-01 after a long illness.
- witchery — witchcraft; magic.
- with pay — with wages or salary included
- work-shy — If you describe someone as work-shy, you disapprove of them because you think they are lazy and do not want to work.
- worthily — having adequate or great merit, character, or value: a worthy successor.
- wrathily — in a wrathful or angry manner
- wrymouth — any blennioid fish of the family Stichaeidae, having a large, upturned mouth, especially Cryptacanthodes maculatus, a bottom fish of the Atlantic Ocean.
- wych elm — an elm, Ulmus glabra, of northern and western Europe, having large, coarse leaves.
- wych-elm — an elm, Ulmus glabra, of northern and western Europe, having large, coarse leaves.
- xenophya — parts of a shell or skeleton formed by foreign bodies
- yachters — Plural form of yachter.
- yachties — Plural form of yachty.
- yachting — a vessel used for private cruising, racing, or other noncommercial purposes.
- yahooism — The behaviour or attitudes of yahoos; ignorant boorishness.
- yahrzeit — the anniversary of the death of a parent, sibling, child, or spouse, observed by lighting a memorial lamp or candle the night before and reciting the Kaddish at the evening service of the day before and at the morning and afternoon services of the day itself.
- yangshao — of or designating a Neolithic culture of N China c5000–3000 b.c., characterized by dwellings with sunken floors, domestication of the pig, and a fine handmade pottery painted mainly in geometric designs of spirals and circles.
- yangzhou — a city in central Jiangsu province, in E China.
- yarmouth — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- yashmaks — Plural form of yashmak.
- yataghan — a Turkish saber having a doubly curved blade, concave toward the hilt, and a hilt with a prominent pommel and no guard.
- yearneth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of yearn.
- yeshivah — Alternative spelling of yeshiva.
- yeshivas — Plural form of yeshiva.
- yieldeth — Archaic third-person singular form of yield.
- yinchuan — an administrative division in N China. 25,640 sq. mi. (66,400 sq. km). Capital: Yinchuan.
- yinglish — English characterized by a large number of Yiddish words and expressions.
- yo-ho-ho — an exclamation to call attention
- yoghourt — a prepared food having the consistency of custard, made from milk curdled by the action of cultures, sometimes sweetened or flavored.
- yokelish — Like a rustic or bumpkin; simple and ignorant.
- yokohama — a seaport on SE Honshu, in central Japan, on Tokyo Bay: destructive earthquake 1923.
- yoohooed — Simple past tense and past participle of yoohoo.
- you what — People say 'you what?' to indicate that they do not believe or accept the remark that someone has just made, or that they have not heard or understood it properly.
- youngish — somewhat young.
- youthful — characterized by youth; young.
- yukaghir — a member of a Mongoloid people of northeastern Siberia.
- yungchia — Older Spelling. Yongjia.
- zatishye — former name of Elektrostal.
- zephyrus — the west wind personified.
- zoochory — the dispersal of plant spores or seeds by animals
- zoopathy — the science of animal diseases
- zoophagy — the feeding on animals by other animals