8-letter words containing y, e, r
- staggery — tending to stagger
- star key — a push button on a telephone or other electronic device that is marked with an asterisk, often in the lower left-hand area.
- stemmery — a factory or other place where tobacco leaves are stripped.
- sternway — Nautical. the movement of a vessel backward, or stern foremost.
- storeyed — having stories or floors (often used in combination): a two-storied house.
- strachey — (Giles) Lytton [jahylz lit-n] /dʒaɪlz ˈlɪt n/ (Show IPA), 1880–1932, English biographer and literary critic.
- strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
- stretchy — having a tendency to stretch, especially excessively or unduly.
- subentry — an item shown or listed under a main entry, as in bookkeeping.
- summerly — summerlike; summery.
- sunberry — wonderberry.
- superbly — admirably fine or excellent; extremely good: a superb performance.
- superspy — a highly accomplished spy
- surveyal — the action of surveying
- surveyed — to take a general or comprehensive view of or appraise, as a situation, area of study, etc.
- surveyor — a person whose occupation is surveying.
- swannery — a place where swans are raised.
- swear by — to make a solemn declaration or affirmation by some sacred being or object, as a deity or the Bible.
- sybarite — (usually lowercase) a person devoted to luxury and pleasure.
- 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.
- sylvaner — a white grape grown in the Alsace region of France and in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria.
- symmetry — the correspondence in size, form, and arrangement of parts on opposite sides of a plane, line, or point; regularity of form or arrangement in terms of like, reciprocal, or corresponding parts.
- syndrome — Pathology, Psychiatry. a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease, or the like.
- synergic — the interaction of elements that when combined produce a total effect that is greater than the sum of the individual elements, contributions, etc.; synergism.
- synergid — one of two small cells that lie inside the embryo sac of a flowering plant and nourish the ovum.
- syracuse — a city in central New York.
- syringes — a small device consisting of a glass, metal, or hard rubber tube, narrowed at its outlet, and fitted with either a piston or a rubber bulb for drawing in a quantity of fluid or for ejecting fluid in a stream, for cleaning wounds, injecting fluids into the body, etc.
- system r — (database) A database system built as a research project at IBM San Jose Research (now IBM Almaden Research Center) in the 1970s. System R introduced the SQL language and also demonstrated that a relational system database could provide good transaction processing performance.
- tapestry — a fabric consisting of a warp upon which colored threads are woven by hand to produce a design, often pictorial, used for wall hangings, furniture coverings, etc.
- tax year — A tax year is a particular period of twelve months which is used by the government as a basis for calculating taxes and for organizing its finances and accounts. In Britain, the tax year begins on April 6th and ends on April 5th. In the United States, the tax year begins on January 1st and ends on December 31st.
- taxpayer — a person who pays a tax or is subject to taxation.
- tayberry — a hybrid shrub produced by crossing a blackberry, raspberry, and loganberry
- tea tray — a tray for carrying or holding articles used in serving tea.
- teaberry — the spicy red fruit of the American wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens.
- tearaway — designed to be easily separated or opened by tearing: a box with a tearaway seal.
- temerity — reckless boldness; rashness.
- tenantry — tenants collectively; the body of tenants on an estate.
- tenderly — soft or delicate in substance; not hard or tough: a tender steak.
- terabyte — 2 40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes; 1024 gigabytes.
- teriyaki — a dish of grilled slices of beef, chicken, or fish that have been marinated in soy sauce seasoned with sake, ginger, and sugar.
- term day — a fixed or appointed day, as for the payment of money due; a quarter day.
- terribly — in a terrible manner.
- tertiary — of the third order, rank, stage, formation, etc.; third.
- terylene — a synthetic polyester fibre or fabric based on terephthalic acid, characterized by lightness and crease resistance and used for clothing, sheets, ropes, sails, etc
- tetrytol — an explosive consisting of tetryl and TNT.
- textuary — of or relating to a text; textual.
- the lyre — the constellation Lyra
- the yard — Scotland Yard
- thearchy — the rule or government of God or of a god.
- thievery — the act or practice of thieving; theft.