8-letter words containing s, y, r, o
- sly-grog — bootleg liquor.
- smothery — stifling; close: a smothery atmosphere.
- smouldry — smouldering
- snobbery — snobbish character, conduct, trait, or act.
- snottery — snot or filth
- soaraway — If you describe something as a soaraway success, you mean that its success has suddenly increased.
- sobriety — the state or quality of being sober.
- soldiery — soldiers collectively.
- solidary — characterized by or involving community of responsibilities and interests.
- solitary — alone; without companions; unattended: a solitary passer-by.
- somberly — gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted: a somber passageway.
- sonority — the condition or quality of being resonant or sonorous.
- sordidly — morally ignoble or base; vile: sordid methods.
- sorority — a society or club of women or girls, especially in a college.
- sorryish — rather sorry
- souterly — relating to a souter
- spoofery — good-humored mockery or teasing.
- spookery — matters relating to spies and espionage
- spray-on — applied by means of an aerosol spray
- starosty — (in the past in Poland) the estate of a starosta, given by the Crown
- storeyed — having stories or floors (often used in combination): a two-storied house.
- strongly — with great strength or force: wind blowing strongly from the west.
- sudatory — pertaining to or causing sweating.
- surroyal — the terminal section of a stag's horns, above the section known as the 'royal'
- surveyor — a person whose occupation is surveying.
- 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.
- synchro- — indicating synchronization
- syndrome — Pathology, Psychiatry. a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease, or the like.
- thyrosis — any condition resulting from abnormal functioning of the thyroid gland.
- thyrsoid — having somewhat the form of a thyrsus.
- touristy — pertaining to or characteristic of tourists: a touristy attitude.
- trolleys — trolley car.
- trophesy — a condition caused by a disorder of the nerves relating to nutrition
- tryworks — the furnace and other apparatus, as on whaling ships in the past, used for rendering blubber into oil
- tyrolese — of or relating to the Austrian state of Tyrol or its inhabitants
- tyrosine — a crystalline amino acid, HOC 6 H 4 CH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, abundant in ripe cheese, that acts as a precursor of norepinephrine and dopamine. Symbol: Y. Abbreviation: Tyr;
- undrossy — free from dross; pure
- unsavory — not savory; tasteless or insipid: an unsavory meal.
- up yours — to, toward, or in a more elevated position: to climb up to the top of a ladder.
- uroscopy — inspection or analysis of the urine as a means of diagnosis.
- urostomy — an artificial opening for the release of urine, used when urination through the bladder and urethra is no longer possible due, for example, to surgery
- urostyle — the fused vertebrae at the posterior end of the spinal column of some fishes and tailless amphibians.
- vavasory — the tenure of a fee held by a vavasor.
- waycross — a city in SE Georgia.
- work-shy — If you describe someone as work-shy, you disapprove of them because you think they are lazy and do not want to work.
- workdays — Plural form of workday.
- y-fronts — Y-fronts are men's or boys' underwear with an opening at the front.
- youngers — Plural form of younger.
- younkers — Plural form of younker.
- yourself — Used to refer to the person being addressed as the object of a verb or preposition when they are also the subject of the clause.