8-letter words containing y, e, r
- overeasy — too easy
- overholy — too holy
- overhype — to promote excessively
- overmany — an excess of people
- overplay — to exaggerate or overemphasize (one's role in a play, an emotion, an effect, etc.): The young actor overplayed Hamlet shamelessly. The director of the movie had overplayed the pathos.
- overstay — to stay beyond the time, limit, or duration of; outstay: to overstay one's welcome.
- oversway — to overrule
- overtype — to replace (typed text) by typing new text in the same place
- overwary — excessively wary
- overwily — too crafty
- overyear — to keep for a following year
- oximetry — the measuring of oxygen saturation of the blood by means of an oximeter.
- oystered — veneered with matched flitches having a figure of concentric rings.
- oysterer — a person who fishes for oysters
- pale dry — light in color and not sweet
- pale-dry — light-colored and medium-sweet: pale-dry ginger ale.
- pamphrey — a cabbage
- panderly — in the manner of a pander
- panegyry — a panegyric
- paperboy — a youth or man who sells newspapers on the street or delivers them to homes; newsboy.
- papyrine — paper-like; papyral
- paralyse — to affect with paralysis.
- paralyze — to affect with paralysis.
- paratype — a specimen other than a type specimen that is used for the original description of a taxonomic group and specifically stated to be the one on which the original description of the taxon was based.
- parlayed — to bet or gamble (an original amount and its winnings) on a subsequent race, contest, etc.
- passerby — a person passing by.
- patchery — the act of hurriedly patching something together
- paygrade — a level on a pay scale
- peaberry — a single seed coffee berry; a round coffee bean
- pearleye — any of several deep-sea fishes of the family Scopelarchidae, having large, hooked teeth on the tongue, telescopic eyes, and an iridescent patch on each eye tube.
- pedantry — the character, qualities, practices, etc., of a pedant, especially undue display of learning.
- peddlery — the business of a peddler.
- perchery — a barn in which hens are allowed to move without restriction
- perigyny — Botany. a perigynous condition.
- peripety — a sudden turn of events or an unexpected reversal, especially in a literary work.
- pernancy — a taking or receiving, as of the rents or profits of an estate.
- perseity — (in medieval philosophy) the quality of those things having substance independently of any real object.
- perspiry — sweaty
- petchary — a grey kingbird, Tyrannus dominicensis
- petitory — requesting or entreating
- physeter — a member of the Physeter genus of creatures that includes the sperm whale
- pigeonry — a loft for keeping pigeons in; dovecote; pigeon house
- playgoer — a person who attends the theater often or habitually.
- playwear — playclothes.
- plenarty — the state of an endowed church office when occupied
- pleurisy — inflammation of the pleura, with or without a liquid effusion in the pleural cavity, characterized by a dry cough and pain in the affected side.
- plumbery — a plumber's workshop.
- polymery — the characteristic of having many parts
- polypore — a woody pore fungus, Laetiporus (Polyporus) sulphureus, that forms large, brightly colored, shelflike growths on old logs and tree stumps.
- porterly — pertaining to or characteristic of a porter