8-letter words containing l, a, r, y
- fireclay — Clay capable of withstanding high temperatures, chiefly used for making firebricks.
- flackery — publicity and promotion; press-agentry.
- flaherty — Robert Joseph, 1884–1951, U.S. pioneer in the production of documentary motion pictures.
- flannery — Tim, full name Timothy Fridtjof Flannery. born 1956, Australian zoologist, palaeontologist and environmentalist. His books include The Weather Makers (2006)
- flattery — the act of flattering.
- flavoury — Possessing flavour.
- florally — In a floral way; with flowers or something that suggests them.
- fly rail — Furniture. a horizontally swinging bracket for supporting a drop leaf.
- fly trap — any of various plants that entrap insects, especially Venus's-flytrap.
- flymaker — a person who makes fishing flies
- flypaper — paper designed to destroy flies by catching them on its sticky surface or poisoning them on contact.
- flyspray — a liquid used to destroy flies and other insects, sprayed from an aerosol
- flytraps — Plural form of flytrap.
- forelady — a forewoman.
- foreplay — sexual stimulation of one's partner, usually as a prelude to sexual intercourse.
- formably — formally
- formally — in a formal manner: The store was formally opened on Tuesday.
- fourplay — Quad play.
- frugally — economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful: What your office needs is a frugal manager who can save you money without resorting to painful cutbacks. Synonyms: thrifty, chary, provident, careful, prudent, penny-wise, scrimping; miserly, Scotch, penny-pinching. Antonyms: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, prodigal, profligate.
- gardyloo — (Scotland, obsolete) Used by servants in medieval Scotland to warn passers-by of waste about to be thrown from a window into the street below. The term was still in use as late the 1930s and 1940s, when many people had no indoor toilets.
- gargoyle — a grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal.
- garishly — crudely or tastelessly colorful, showy, or elaborate, as clothes or decoration.
- garlicky — a hardy plant, Allium sativum, of the amaryllis family whose strongly, pungent bulb is used in cookery and medicine.
- geolatry — the worship of the earth
- girlyman — (slang, derogatory) An effeminate man, a pussy.
- glamoury — (obsolete) magic.
- glaziery — the work of a glazier; glasswork.
- glossary — a list of terms in a special subject, field, or area of usage, with accompanying definitions.
- glyceria — any aquatic grass species in the genus Glyceria
- gradably — In a gradable manner.
- graithly — in a graith manner
- grassily — in a grassy manner
- gravelly — of, like, or abounding in gravel.
- grayling — any freshwater fish of the genus Thymallus, related to the trouts but having a longer and higher, brilliantly colored dorsal fin.
- graymail — a means of preventing prosecution, as for espionage, by threatening to disclose government secrets during trial.
- greasily — In a greasy manner.
- gunlayer — a person who aims a ship's gun
- gyroidal — having a spiral arrangement.
- halyards — Plural form of halyard.
- harlotry — prostitution.
- heartily — in a hearty manner; cordially: He was greeted heartily.
- heraldry — the science of armorial bearings.
- hilarity — cheerfulness; merriment; mirthfulness.
- hoarsely — having a vocal tone characterized by weakness of intensity and excessive breathiness; husky: the hoarse voice of the auctioneer.
- holarchy — a system composed of interacting holons
- holiatry — holism (def 2).
- holy ark — a cabinet in a synagogue set into or against the wall that faces eastward toward Jerusalem, for keeping the scrolls of the Torah.
- holy war — a war waged for what is supposed or proclaimed to be a holy purpose, as the defense of faith.
- hydrilla — a submerged aquatic plant, Hydrilla verticillata, native to the Old World, that has become a pest weed in U.S. lakes and waterways.
- hydrolat — An aromatic hydrosol, especially one made by steam distillation of a plant extract.