8-letter words containing y, s, a
- unsteady — not steady or firm; unstable; shaky: an unsteady hand.
- unswayed — swaybacked.
- unusably — available or convenient for use: 2000 square feet of usable office space.
- varnishy — glossy; like varnish
- vasarely — Victor. 1908–97, French painter, born in Hungary; a leading exponent of op art
- vasotomy — incision or opening of the vas deferens.
- vavasory — the tenure of a fee held by a vavasor.
- vespiary — a nest of social wasps.
- vestally — in a vestal manner
- vestiary — of or relating to garments or vestments.
- visually — in a visual manner; with respect to sight; by sight.
- walkways — Plural form of walkway.
- wallasey — a city in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary, opposite Liverpool.
- walleyes — Plural form of walleye.
- washdays — Plural form of washday.
- wasteway — an open ditch for the passage of waste water
- waybills — Plural form of waybill.
- waycross — a city in SE Georgia.
- waymarks — Plural form of waymark.
- waysides — Plural form of wayside.
- waywiser — a device formerly used for measuring distance travelled by road
- wealthys — a variety of red apple, grown in the U.S., ripening in early autumn.
- weaselly — resembling a weasel, especially in features or manner: a weaselly little clerk with furtive eyes.
- weekdays — every day, especially Monday through Friday, during the workweek: Weekdays we're open from nine till five.
- wesleyan — of or relating to John Wesley, founder of Methodism.
- workdays — Plural form of workday.
- yachters — Plural form of yachter.
- yachties — Plural form of yachty.
- yahooism — The behaviour or attitudes of yahoos; ignorant boorishness.
- yamasaki — Minoru [mi-nawr-oo,, -nohr-] /mɪˈnɔr u,, -ˈnoʊr-/ (Show IPA), 1912–86, U.S. architect.
- yangshao — of or designating a Neolithic culture of N China c5000–3000 b.c., characterized by dwellings with sunken floors, domestication of the pig, and a fine handmade pottery painted mainly in geometric designs of spirals and circles.
- yardages — Plural form of yardage.
- yardarms — Plural form of yardarm.
- yashmaks — Plural form of yashmak.
- yawnsome — dull and boring; tiresome
- yearlies — Plural form of yearly.
- yeasayer — a person with an optimistic and confident outlook.
- 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.
- yeshivah — Alternative spelling of yeshiva.
- yeshivas — Plural form of yeshiva.
- ygdrasil — the great ash tree whose roots and branches hold together the universe
- yokosuka — a seaport on SE Honshu, in central Japan, on Tokyo Bay: naval base.
- yolk sac — an extraembryonic membrane that encloses the yolk of eggs in birds, reptiles, and marsupials and that circulates nourishment from the yolk to the developing embryo.
- yugoslav — a native or inhabitant of the former country of Yugoslavia.
- zatishye — former name of Elektrostal.
- zyzzyvas — any of various South American weevils of the genus Zyzzyva, often destructive to plants.