8-letter words containing y, a
- boy band — A boy band is a band consisting of young men who sing pop music and dance. Boy bands are especially popular with teenage girls.
- boyarism — the rule of the boyars
- bradbury — Sir Malcolm (Stanley). 1932–2000, British novelist and critic. His novels include The History Man (1975), Rates of Exchange (1983), Cuts (1988), and Doctor Criminale (1992)
- brazenly — shameless or impudent: brazen presumption.
- brazenry — the quality of being brazen or an example of brazenness
- breviary — a book of psalms, hymns, prayers, etc, to be recited daily by clerics in major orders and certain members of religious orders as part of the divine office
- bridally — in a manner appropriate for a bride
- 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
- broadway — a thoroughfare in New York City, famous for its theatres: the centre of the commercial theatre in the US
- brutally — savage; cruel; inhuman: a brutal attack on the village.
- bryozoan — any aquatic invertebrate animal of the phylum Bryozoa, forming colonies of polyps each having a ciliated feeding organ (lophophore)
- buccally — from the point of view of the cheek or mouth
- buckstay — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- bulawayo — a city in SW Zimbabwe founded (1893) on the site of the kraal of Lobengula, the last Matabele king; the country's main industrial centre. Pop: 693 000 (2005 est)
- bull bay — evergreen magnolia.
- bullyrag — to bully, esp by means of cruel practical jokes
- buoyance — the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
- buoyancy — Buoyancy is the ability that something has to float on a liquid or in the air.
- buraydah — a town and oasis in central Saudi Arabia. Pop: 462 000 (2005 est)
- burglary — If someone commits a burglary, they enter a building by force and steal things. Burglary is the act of doing this.
- burramys — the very rare mountain pigmy possum, Burramys parvus, of Australia. It is about the size of a rat and restricted in habitat to very high altitudes, mainly Mt Hotham, Victoria. Until 1966 it was known only as a fossil
- bushbaby — any agile nocturnal arboreal prosimian primate of the genera Galago and Euoticus, occurring in Africa south of the Sahara: family Lorisidae (lorises). They have large eyes and ears and a long tail
- buttyman — a male homosexual
- butylate — to introduce butyl into (a compound)
- butyrate — any salt or ester of butyric acid, containing the monovalent group C3H7COO- or ion C3H7COO–
- buy boat — a boat sent out by a dealer to purchase the catches of fishing vessels.
- buy-back — A buy-back is a situation in which a company buys shares back from its investors.
- 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
- by-catch — unwanted fish and other sea animals caught in a fishing net along with the desired kind of fish
- bypassed — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- bypasser — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- byre-man — a man who raises or tends cows.
- byrlakin — a mild oath
- ca'canny — moderation or wariness
- cabbagey — resembling a cabbage
- cableway — a system for moving people or bulk materials in which suspended cars, buckets, etc, run on cables that extend between terminal towers
- cacodoxy — an erroneous doctrine or heterodoxy
- cacology — a bad choice of words; faulty speech
- caconymy — the practice of coining caconyms
- caddying — Present participle of caddy.
- caducity — perishableness
- caecally — with relation to the caecum
- cajolery — persuasion by flattery or promises; wheedling; coaxing.
- calamary — a squid: so called from its pen-shaped skeleton
- calamity — A calamity is an event that causes a great deal of damage, destruction, or personal distress.
- calbayog — a city in the Philippines, on NW Samar.
- calendry — a place where calendering is carried out
- calidity — warmth
- calisaya — the bark of any of several tropical trees of the rubiaceous genus Cinchona, esp C. calisaya, from which quinine is extracted