8-letter words containing y, e, r
- year end — the end of the financial year
- year-end — year's end; the end of a calendar year.
- yearbook — a book published annually, containing information, statistics, etc., about the past year: an encyclopedia yearbook.
- yeardley — (Sir) George, 1587?–1627, English colonial governor of Virginia 1619–21, 1626–27.
- yearlies — Plural form of yearly.
- yearling — an animal in its second year.
- yearlong — lasting for a year.
- yearneth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of yearn.
- yearnful — Filled with yearning; desirous; mournful; distressing.
- yearning — deep longing, especially when accompanied by tenderness or sadness: a widower's yearning for his wife.
- yeartide — A specific time of year; season.
- yeasayer — a person with an optimistic and confident outlook.
- yellower — a color like that of egg yolk, ripe lemons, etc.; the primary color between green and orange in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 570 and 590 nm.
- yeomanry — yeomen collectively.
- yersinia — A Gram-negative bacterium, of the genus Yersinia, that is an etiological agent of several diseases in animals and humans, notably Yersinia pestis, which causes bubonic plague.
- yessiree — (informal) A more enthusiastic way of saying yes.
- yestreen — yesterday evening; last evening.
- yonderly — aloof; reserved
- youngers — Plural form of younger.
- younkers — Plural form of younker.
- yourself — Used to refer to the person being addressed as the object of a verb or preposition when they are also the subject of the clause.
- youtuber — a person who regularly posts or appears in videos on the YouTube website
- ytterbia — a colorless compound, Yb 2 O 3 , used in certain alloys and ceramics.
- ytterbic — related to, derived from, or containing ytterbium
- yumberry — the purple-red edible fruit of an E Asian tree
- zealotry — undue or excessive zeal; fanaticism.
- zebrinny — the offspring of a male horse and a female zebra
- zephyrus — the west wind personified.
- zoometry — measurement of the proportionate lengths or sizes of the parts of animals.