8-letter words containing o, y, a
- antibody — Antibodies are substances which a person's or an animal's body produces in their blood in order to destroy substances which carry disease.
- antilogy — a contradiction in terms
- antimony — a toxic metallic element that exists in two allotropic forms and occurs principally in stibnite. The stable form is a brittle silvery-white crystalline metal that is added to alloys to increase their strength and hardness and is used in semiconductors. Symbol: Sb; atomic no: 51; atomic wt: 121.757; valency: 0, –3, +3, or +5; relative density: 6.691; melting pt: 630.76°C; boiling pt: 1587°C
- antinomy — opposition of one law, principle, or rule to another; contradiction within a law
- antonyms — a word opposite in meaning to another. Fast is an antonym of slow. Compare synonym (def 1).
- antonymy — the semantic relationship between words that have opposite meanings
- any more — If something does not happen or is not true any more or any longer, it has stopped happening or is no longer true.
- anybodys — a person of some importance: If you're anybody, you'll receive an invitation.
- apiology — the scientific study of bees
- apocarpy — the quality of being apocarpous
- apollyon — the destroyer, a name given to the Devil (Revelation 9:11)
- apophony — a change in the quality of a vowel sound to indicate grammatical change
- apophyge — the outward curve at each end of the shaft of a column, adjoining the base or capital
- apophyse — Apophysis.
- apoplexy — Apoplexy is a stroke.
- apospory — development of the gametophyte from the sporophyte without the formation of spores
- apostacy — Abandonment of religion.
- apostasy — If someone is accused of apostasy, they are accused of abandoning their religious faith, political loyalties, or principles.
- arcology — a type of architecture concerned with the design of enormous vertical cities that maximize population density and so preserve the surrounding countryside
- areology — the study of the planet Mars
- armyworm — the caterpillar of a widely distributed noctuid moth, Leucania unipuncta, which travels in vast hordes and is a serious pest of cereal crops in North America
- artotype — collotype.
- asystole — the absence of heartbeat; cardiac arrest
- atemoyas — Plural form of atemoya.
- athodyds — Plural form of athodyd.
- atmology — the study of or the scientific discipline of aqueous vapour
- atmolyse — to separate gases, which have differing degrees of diffusibility, by filtering
- atonally — In an atonal manner; without tone.
- atrocity — An atrocity is a very cruel, shocking action.
- attaboys — Plural form of attaboy.
- attorney — In the United States, an attorney or attorney at law is a lawyer.
- auditory — Auditory means related to hearing.
- autobody — Alternative form of auto body.
- autodyne — denoting or relating to an electrical circuit in which the same elements and valves are used as oscillator and detector
- autogamy — self-fertilization in flowering plants
- autogyro — autogiro
- autology — the study of oneself
- autolyse — to undergo or cause to undergo autolysis
- autolyze — to affect with or undergo autolysis
- autonomy — Autonomy is the ability to make your own decisions about what to do rather than being influenced by someone else or told what to do.
- autonyms — Plural form of autonym.
- autonymy — The use of a symbol as a name for itself.
- autotomy — the casting off by an animal of a part of its body, to facilitate escape when attacked
- autotype — a photographic process for producing prints in black and white, using a carbon pigment
- autotypy — (dated, photography) An early photographic process that produced autotypes using a carbon pigment.
- auxocyte — any cell undergoing meiosis, esp an oocyte or spermatocyte
- auxology — (biology) The study of growth.
- avowably — in an avowable manner; not secret or hidden
- avowedly — acknowledged; declared: an avowed enemy.
- axiology — the theory of values, moral or aesthetic