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8-letter words containing y, e, a

  • assembly — An assembly is a large group of people who meet regularly to make decisions or laws for a particular region or country.
  • astutely — of keen penetration or discernment; sagacious: an astute analysis.
  • asyndeta — Plural form of asyndeton.
  • asynergy — defective coordination between parts, as muscles or limbs, that normally act in unison.
  • asystole — the absence of heartbeat; cardiac arrest
  • atemoyas — Plural form of atemoya.
  • atmolyse — to separate gases, which have differing degrees of diffusibility, by filtering
  • attently — attentive; intent.
  • attorney — In the United States, an attorney or attorney at law is a lawyer.
  • atty gen — Attorney General
  • autodyne — denoting or relating to an electrical circuit in which the same elements and valves are used as oscillator and detector
  • autolyse — to undergo or cause to undergo autolysis
  • autolyze — to affect with or undergo autolysis
  • autotype — a photographic process for producing prints in black and white, using a carbon pigment
  • auxocyte — any cell undergoing meiosis, esp an oocyte or spermatocyte
  • aversely — having a strong feeling of opposition, antipathy, repugnance, etc.; opposed: He is not averse to having a drink now and then.
  • aversity — The state or condition of being averse.
  • avowedly — acknowledged; declared: an avowed enemy.
  • awayness — the state of not being in a specific place
  • aycliffe — a town in Co Durham: founded as a new town in 1947. Pop (including Newton Aycliffe): 25 655 (2001)
  • ayrshire — a historical county of SW Scotland, formerly part of Strathclyde region (1975–96), now divided into the council areas of North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
  • ayurveda — an ancient medical treatise on the art of healing and prolonging life, sometimes regarded as a fifth Veda
  • baby tee — a form-fitting, short T-shirt worn by girls or women.
  • babylike — Resembling a baby, or something associated with a baby.
  • babywear — Babywear is a clothing product category for babies and infants up to 2 years old.
  • badgerly — resembling a badger
  • balayage — a technique for highlighting hair in which bleach or dye is painted onto sections of the hair with a brush
  • ballyboe — (Ireland, historical) A townland in Ulster.
  • baloneys — Plural form of baloney.
  • bankerly — relating to or resembling a banker
  • barberry — any spiny berberidaceous shrub of the widely distributed genus Berberis, esp B. vulgaris, having clusters of yellow flowers and orange or red berries: widely cultivated as hedge plants
  • bareilly — a city in N India, in N central Uttar Pradesh. Pop: 699 839 (2001)
  • barnsley — an industrial town in N England, in Barnsley unitary authority, South Yorkshire. Pop: 71 599 (2001)
  • barrenly — Unfruitfully; unproductively.
  • barretry — barratry
  • barytone — having the last syllable unaccented
  • base pay — the basic rate of pay for a particular job exclusive of overtime pay, bonuses, etc.
  • basketry — Basketry is baskets made by weaving together thin strips of materials such as wood.
  • bay area — region in W Calif., generally consisting of the counties surrounding San Francisco Bay
  • bay leaf — A bay leaf is a leaf of an evergreen tree that can be dried and used as a herb in cooking.
  • bay tree — laurel (def 1).
  • bayadere — a dancing girl, esp one serving in a Hindu temple
  • bayberry — any of several North American aromatic shrubs or small trees of the genus Myrica, that bear grey waxy berries: family Myricaceae
  • bayesian — (of a theory) presupposing known a priori probabilities which may be subjectively assessed and which can be revised in the light of experience in accordance with Bayes' theorem. A hypothesis is thus confirmed by an experimental observation which is likely given the hypothesis and unlikely without it
  • bayonets — Plural form of bayonet.
  • bayreuth — a city in E Germany, in NE Bavaria: home and burial place of Richard Wagner; annual festivals of his music. Pop: 74 818 (2003 est)
  • baysmelt — topsmelt.
  • beachboy — a male lifeguard on a beach
  • bearably — In a bearable manner.
  • beastily — in the manner of a beast
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