8-letter words containing y, s, a
- aruspicy — haruspicy.
- asa gray — Asa [ey-suh] /ˈeɪ sə/ (Show IPA), 1810–88, U.S. botanist.
- ash gray — pale gray resembling the color of ashes.
- ashtrays — Plural form of ashtray.
- asperity — If you say something with asperity, you say it impatiently and severely.
- asphyxia — Asphyxia is death or loss of consciousness caused by being unable to breathe properly.
- assayers — to examine or analyze: to assay a situation; to assay an event.
- assaying — to examine or analyze: to assay a situation; to assay an event.
- assembly — An assembly is a large group of people who meet regularly to make decisions or laws for a particular region or country.
- assyrian — an inhabitant of ancient Assyria
- astrally — pertaining to or proceeding from the stars; stellar; star-shaped.
- astucity — Craftiness; astuteness.
- astutely — of keen penetration or discernment; sagacious: an astute analysis.
- astyanax — the young son of Hector and Andromache, who was hurled from the walls of Troy by the Greeks
- 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.
- athanasy — an absence of death or the condition of everlasting life
- athodyds — Plural form of athodyd.
- atmolyse — to separate gases, which have differing degrees of diffusibility, by filtering
- attaboys — Plural form of attaboy.
- augustly — inspiring reverence or admiration; of supreme dignity or grandeur; majestic: an august performance of a religious drama.
- autolyse — to undergo or cause to undergo autolysis
- autonyms — Plural form of autonym.
- 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.
- awayness — the state of not being in a specific place
- 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
- babruysk — a city in SE Belarus, in Europe, SE of Minsk.
- baby-sit — to act or work as a baby-sitter
- babykins — Fond term of address for a baby, child, or lover.
- babysits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of babysit.
- backstay — a stay leading aft from the upper part of a mast to the deck or stern
- baloneys — Plural form of baloney.
- barnsley — an industrial town in N England, in Barnsley unitary authority, South Yorkshire. Pop: 71 599 (2001)
- base pay — the basic rate of pay for a particular job exclusive of overtime pay, bonuses, etc.
- basicity — the state of being a base
- basilary — Basilar.
- basketry — Basketry is baskets made by weaving together thin strips of materials such as wood.
- bastardy — the condition of being a bastard; illegitimacy
- bay salt — salt derived by evaporating seawater in the sun.
- 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.
- baysmelt — topsmelt.
- beastily — in the manner of a beast
- bestiary — a moralizing medieval collection of descriptions (and often illustrations) of real and mythical animals
- biasedly — in a biased manner
- big easy — the New Orleans
- bioassay — a method of determining the concentration, activity, or effect of a change to substance by testing its effect on a living organism and comparing this with the activity of an agreed standard