8-letter words containing s, a, y, o
- socially — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- sodality — fellowship; comradeship.
- solidary — characterized by or involving community of responsibilities and interests.
- solitary — alone; without companions; unattended: a solitary passer-by.
- some day — on an unspecified date in the future
- soothsay — to foretell events; predict.
- spray-on — applied by means of an aerosol spray
- starosty — (in the past in Poland) the estate of a starosta, given by the Crown
- stay out — to spend some time in a place, in a situation, with a person or group, etc.: He stayed in the army for ten years.
- staybolt — a long rod with threaded ends, used as a stay for a boiler, tank, etc.
- stomachy — paunchy; having a prominent stomach.
- stowaway — a person who hides aboard a ship or airplane in order to obtain free transportation or elude pursuers.
- sudatory — pertaining to or causing sweating.
- surroyal — the terminal section of a stag's horns, above the section known as the 'royal'
- sycamore — Also called buttonwood. any of several North American plane trees, especially Platanus occidentalis, having shallowly lobed ovate leaves, globular seed heads, and wood valued as timber.
- sympodia — an axis or stem that simulates a simple stem but is made up of the bases of a number of axes that arise successively as branches, one from another, as in the grapevine.
- syncopal — Grammar. the contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in the reduction of never to ne'er.
- synovial — a lubricating fluid resembling the white of an egg, secreted by certain membranes, as those of the joints.
- tea cosy — A tea cosy is a soft knitted or fabric cover which you put over a teapot in order to keep the tea hot.
- toadyism — an obsequious flatterer; sycophant.
- ts'ao yu — (Wan Chia-pao) Cao Yu.
- unsavory — not savory; tasteless or insipid: an unsavory meal.
- vasotomy — incision or opening of the vas deferens.
- vavasory — the tenure of a fee held by a vavasor.
- waycross — a city in SE Georgia.
- workdays — Plural form of workday.
- yahooism — The behaviour or attitudes of yahoos; ignorant boorishness.
- 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.
- yawnsome — dull and boring; tiresome
- yokosuka — a seaport on SE Honshu, in central Japan, on Tokyo Bay: naval base.
- 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.
- yugoslav — a native or inhabitant of the former country of Yugoslavia.