8-letter words containing t, a, r, y
- bed tray — a meal tray with legs or supports at each end to fit across the lap of a person who is sitting up in bed.
- bestiary — a moralizing medieval collection of descriptions (and often illustrations) of real and mythical animals
- beta ray — a stream of beta particles
- betrayal — A betrayal is an action which betrays someone or something, or the fact of being betrayed.
- betrayed — to deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty: Benedict Arnold betrayed his country.
- betrayer — to deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty: Benedict Arnold betrayed his country.
- bi-party — representing two distinct parties: a biparty investigating committee.
- binarity — a principle of analysis requiring that a linguistic system, as a phonological, case, or semantic system, be represented as a set of binary oppositions.
- birthday — Your birthday is the anniversary of the date on which you were born.
- blantyre — a city in S Malawi: includes the former town of Limbe.
- boatyard — A boatyard is a place where boats are built and repaired or kept.
- body art — physical adornments such as tattoos and piercings
- bot army — a group of computers, infected with malign programs via the internet, that can be controlled remotely to, for example, mount denial-of-service attacks
- brittany — a region of NW France, the peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay: settled by Celtic refugees from Wales and Cornwall during the Anglo-Saxon invasions; disputed between England and France until 1364
- brutally — savage; cruel; inhuman: a brutal attack on the village.
- butyrate — any salt or ester of butyric acid, containing the monovalent group C3H7COO- or ion C3H7COO–
- by heart — If you know something such as a poem by heart, you have learned it so well that you can remember it without having to read it.
- by water — by ship or boat
- calypter — a bastard wing or alula
- calyptra — a membranous hood covering the spore-bearing capsule of mosses and liverworts
- carrycot — A carrycot is a small bed for babies which has handles so it can be carried.
- carryout — designating or of prepared food sold as by a restaurant to be eaten away from the premises
- cartoony — cartoonish
- caryatid — a column, used to support an entablature, in the form of a draped female figure
- catagory — Misspelling of category.
- catchcry — a well-known, frequently used phrase, esp one associated with a particular group, etc
- category — If people or things are divided into categories, they are divided into groups in such a way that the members of each group are similar to each other in some way.
- catenary — the curve assumed by a heavy uniform flexible cord hanging freely from two points. When symmetrical about the y-axis and intersecting it at y = a, the equation is y = a cosh x/a
- cavitary — having or containing cavities
- cemetary — Misspelling of cemetery.
- centaury — any Eurasian plant of the genus Centaurium, esp C. erythraea, having purplish-pink flowers and formerly believed to have medicinal properties: family Gentianaceae
- chattery — to talk rapidly in a foolish or purposeless way; jabber.
- chayroot — the root of a chay plant, used to dye textiles a deep-red colour
- cheatery — the act of cheating or deceiving
- chrystal — Obsolete spelling of crystal.
- cityward — towards a city
- clattery — (informal) Tending to cause a clatter; noisy and possibly cumbersome.
- cometary — a celestial body moving about the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit, consisting of a central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and gas that may form a tail that streams away from the sun.
- contrary — Ideas, attitudes, or reactions that are contrary to each other are completely different from each other.
- corybant — a wild attendant of the goddess Cybele
- costmary — a herbaceous plant, Chrysanthemum balsamita, native to Asia. Its fragrant leaves were used as a seasoning and to flavour ale: family Asteraceae (composites)
- craftily — skillful in underhand or evil schemes; cunning; deceitful; sly.
- creatify — To edit, rewrite, and/or revise standard text using creative writing tools and techniques.
- cryonaut — a person whose dead body has been preserved by the technique of cryonics.
- cryostat — an apparatus for maintaining a constant low temperature or a vessel in which a substance is stored at a low temperature
- cryptand — (chemistry) any of a class of polycyclic compounds related to the crown ethers, having three chains attached at two nitrogen atoms.
- crystall — Obsolete form of crystal.
- crystals — Plural form of crystal.
- curatory — the office of a curator
- curranty — full of currants