8-letter words containing o, y, a
- wagonway — A crude road for wagons.
- wantonly — done, shown, used, etc., maliciously or unjustifiably: a wanton attack; wanton cruelty.
- wanwordy — without merit
- waterboy — Alternative spelling of water boy.
- way port — a port of call on a particular route
- way-cool — outstanding; excellent; marvellous
- wayboard — a thin geological seam separating larger strata
- waycross — a city in SE Georgia.
- waygoing — the act of leaving; departure; leavetaking.
- wayleggo — away here! let go!; a shepherd's call to a dog on completion of a task
- waypoint — a place or point between major points on a route.
- weaponry — weapons or weaponlike instruments collectively.
- wood ray — xylem ray.
- woodyard — A yard where wood is chopped or stored.
- wordplay — clever or subtle repartee; verbal wit.
- workably — In an workable fashion.
- workaday — of or befitting working days; characteristic of a workday and its occupations.
- workdays — Plural form of workday.
- xenogamy — pollination of the stigma of a flower by pollen from a flower on another plant.
- xenophya — parts of a shell or skeleton formed by foreign bodies
- xylocarp — a fruit, such as a coconut, having a hard woody pericarp
- yahooism — The behaviour or attitudes of yahoos; ignorant boorishness.
- yakimono — (in Japan) grilled, fried, or broiled food, esp meat
- yakitori — a dish of small pieces of boneless chicken, usually marinated, skewered, and grilled.
- yamamoto — Isoroku [ee-saw-raw-koo] /ˈi sɔˈrɔ kʊ/ (Show IPA), 1884–1943, Japanese naval officer.
- yamato-e — a narrative style of painting developed from the 12th to the 14th century, characterized chiefly by continuous illustrations often executed on long scrolls.
- yang tao — Chinese gooseberry.
- 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.
- yanomama — Yanomamo.
- yanomamo — a member of an indigenous people of southern Venezuela and neighboring Brazil who live in scattered villages in the rain forests and conduct warfare against one another continually.
- yardwork — (North America) Work done in maintaining a lawn, and related landscaping activities.
- yarmouth — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- yarovize — to vernalize.
- yawnsome — dull and boring; tiresome
- yearbook — a book published annually, containing information, statistics, etc., about the past year: an encyclopedia yearbook.
- yearlong — lasting for a year.
- yeomanly — of the condition or rank of a yeoman.
- yeomanry — yeomen collectively.
- yoga mat — padded floor covering used for yoga
- yokemate — an associate or companion, especially at work; partner.
- yokohama — a seaport on SE Honshu, in central Japan, on Tokyo Bay: destructive earthquake 1923.
- yokosuka — a seaport on SE Honshu, in central Japan, on Tokyo Bay: naval base.
- yokozuna — A grand champion sumo wrestler.
- yolk sac — an extraembryonic membrane that encloses the yolk of eggs in birds, reptiles, and marsupials and that circulates nourishment from the yolk to the developing embryo.
- yottaton — A measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many septillion tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy.
- you mean — You use 'you mean' in a question to check that you have understood what someone has said.
- 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.
- yugoslav — a native or inhabitant of the former country of Yugoslavia.
- zealotry — undue or excessive zeal; fanaticism.