8-letter words containing s, y, l, a
- saddlery — saddles, harnesses, and other equipment for horses.
- sailyard — a yard for a sail.
- salacity — lustful or lecherous.
- saleyard — an area with pens for holding animals before auction
- saliency — salience.
- salinity — of, containing, or resembling common table salt; salty or saltlike: a saline solution.
- salivary — a viscid, watery fluid, secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands, that functions in the tasting, chewing, and swallowing of food, moistens the mouth, and starts the digestion of starches.
- salt hay — hay made up of salt grass, often used as fodder or as a mulch.
- salutary — favorable to or promoting health; healthful.
- samplery — the making of samplers
- sand fly — any of several small, bloodsucking, dipterous insects of the family Psychodidae that are vectors of several diseases of humans.
- sand-fly — any of several small, bloodsucking, dipterous insects of the family Psychodidae that are vectors of several diseases of humans.
- savagely — fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed: savage beasts.
- savourly — in a savouring or enjoyable manner; passionately
- sayville — a town on the S shore of Long Island, in SE New York.
- scalably — capable of being scaled: the scalable slope of a mountain.
- scantily — scant in amount, quantity, etc.; barely sufficient.
- scarcely — barely; hardly; not quite: The light is so dim we can scarcely see.
- scrabbly — insignificantly small or sparse: scrabbly tufts of grass sprouting from the parched lawn.
- scraggly — irregular; uneven; jagged.
- scybalum — hard faeces in the intestine
- sea lily — a stalked, sessile crinoid.
- sedately — calm, quiet, or composed; undisturbed by passion or excitement: a sedate party; a sedate horse.
- sepalody — the changing of other flower parts, such as petals, into sepals
- serially — anything published, broadcast, etc., in short installments at regular intervals, as a novel appearing in successive issues of a magazine.
- sex play — erotic caressing, especially as a prelude to sexual intercourse; foreplay.
- sexually — of, relating to, or for sex: sexual matters; sexual aids.
- shabbily — impaired by wear, use, etc.; worn: shabby clothes.
- shauchly — (of a person) unsteady or awkward on the feet
- signally — conspicuously; notably.
- sizeably — sizable.
- slabbery — slobbery.
- slattery — slovenly
- slayable — that may be slain for good reason
- slideway — an inclined surface along which something can slide.
- smallboy — the steward's assistant or deputy steward in European households in W Africa
- smarmily — excessively or unctuously flattering, ingratiating, servile, etc.: the emcee with the smarmy welcome.
- snailery — a place where snails are bred
- snakefly — any neuropterous insect of the family Raphidiidae, of western North America, having an elongated prothorax resembling a neck.
- snarkily — in an irritable or snarky manner
- sneakily — like or suggestive of a sneak; furtive; deceitful.
- sociably — inclined to associate with or be in the company of others.
- 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.
- sparkily — in a sparky manner
- sparsely — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- spillway — a passageway through which surplus water escapes from a reservoir, lake, or the like.
- splaying — to spread out, expand, or extend.