8-letter words containing o, y, a
- downplay — to treat or speak of (something) so as to reduce emphasis on its importance, value, strength, etc.: The press has downplayed the president's role in the negotiations.
- dynatron — an electron tube, usually a tetrode, that produces an oscillating current at certain frequencies
- dyschroa — an alteration of colour on the skin
- dyslogia — inability to express ideas because of faulty reasoning or speech, due to a mental disorder.
- dysosmia — an impairment of the sense of smell.
- dyspnoea — Alternative spelling of dyspnea.
- dystocia — Difficult birth, typically caused by a large or awkwardly positioned fetus, by smallness of the maternal pelvis, or by failure of the uterus and cervix to contract and expand normally.
- dystonia — abnormal tone of any tissue.
- dystopia — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- early on — in or during the first part of a period of time, a course of action, a series of events, etc.: early in the year.
- easy fox — An early system on the JOHNNIAC computer.
- endogamy — The custom of marrying only within the limits of a local community, clan, or tribe.
- ethanoyl — of, consisting of, or containing the monovalent group CH3CO-
- exophagy — the practice of cannibalism outside of the tribe or family
- faggotry — (pejorative, slang) The quality of being a faggot (homosexual).
- fairydom — The realm or sphere of fairies.
- falconry — the sport of hunting with falcons, hawks, eagles, etc.; hawking.
- famously — having a widespread reputation, usually of a favorable nature; renowned; celebrated: a famous writer. Synonyms: famed, notable, illustrious. Antonyms: unknown, obscure.
- fashiony — of or relating to fashion; fashionable; trendy
- fat body — a diffuse tissue of insects, having numerous functions including food storage, metabolism, and storage of wastes and in some insects modified as a light-producing organ.
- filatory — a machine for spinning thread
- flavoury — Possessing flavour.
- flaysome — (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Terrifying; frightful.
- floodway — the channel and adjacent shore areas under water during a flood, especially as determined for a flood of a given height.
- florally — In a floral way; with flowers or something that suggests them.
- flyboats — Plural form of flyboat.
- foldaway — designed to be folded out of the way when not in use: a foldaway bed.
- folkways — The traditional behavior or way of life of a particular community or group of people.
- foodways — the customs and traditions relating to food and its preparation
- footways — Plural form of footway.
- foraying — a quick raid, usually for the purpose of taking plunder: Vikings made a foray on the port.
- forelady — a forewoman.
- foreplay — sexual stimulation of one's partner, usually as a prelude to sexual intercourse.
- forestay — a stay leading aft and upward from the stem or knightheads of a vessel to the head of the fore lower mast; the lowermost stay of a foremast.
- foreyard — a yard on the lower mast of a square-rigged foremast of a ship used to support the foresail.
- formably — formally
- formally — in a formal manner: The store was formally opened on Tuesday.
- forweary — to exhaust
- four-way — providing access or passage in four directions: a four-way entrance.
- fourplay — Quad play.
- fumatory — of or relating to smoke, especially tobacco smoke, or to a place for smoking.
- galloway — a historic region in SW Scotland.
- game boy — a handheld games console, made by the company Nintendo, which was popular in the 1990s
- 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.
- gayomart — the first Aryan and the sixth creation of Ahura Mazda.
- gealousy — Obsolete form of jealousy.
- geocarpy — the ripening of fruits below ground, as occurs in the peanut
- geolatry — the worship of the earth
- geomancy — divination by geographic features or by figures or lines.