8-letter words containing ya
- mahayana — the later of the two great schools of Buddhism, chiefly in China, Tibet, and Japan, characterized by eclecticism and a general belief in a common search for salvation, sometimes thought to be attainable through faith alone.
- mainyard — (sailing) The yard of the mainmast, from which the mainsail is hung.
- maitreya — the future Buddha
- malayali — a speaker of the Malayalam language
- manyatta — (East Africa) A Masai or Samburu settlement or compound, often temporary, established by a family or clan, or as an encampment of young warriors.
- maya lin — Maya Ying [mah-yuh ying] /ˈmɑ yə ˈyɪŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1959, U.S. architect and sculptor.
- mayaguez — a seaport in W Puerto Rico.
- mayapple — American plant
- metayage — the system of agriculture based on the use of métayers.
- miao-yao — a family of languages, affiliated with Kam-Tai, spoken in southern China and Southeast Asia.
- minyanim — Plural form of minyan.
- miyazaki — a city on SE Kyushu, in Japan.
- momoyama — Azuchi-Momoyama.
- moyamoya — (medicine) A disease in which certain arteries in the brain are constricted.
- myalgias — pain in the muscles; muscular rheumatism.
- myatonia — deficient muscle tone.
- myingyan — a city in central Burma.
- neyagawa — a city in S Honshu, Japan: a suburb of Osaka.
- nonloyal — not loyal, lacking loyalty
- nonroyal — not royal
- nyatitis — Plural form of nyatiti.
- obeyable — to comply with or follow the commands, restrictions, wishes, or instructions of: to obey one's parents.
- payables — debts to be paid
- pitahaya — any of several cacti of the genus Lemaireocereus and related genera, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, bearing edible fruit.
- playable — capable of or suitable for being played.
- polyacid — having more than one replaceable hydrogen atom.
- polyadic — (of a relation, operation, etc) having several argument places, as … moves … from … to …, which might be represented as Mpox1y1z1t1x2y2z2t2 where p names a person, o an object, and each t a time, and each <x,y,z> the coordinates of a place
- polyarch — (of a woody tissue) having multiple points of origin
- polyaxon — a nerve cell with multiple branches
- prypyat' — Pripet.
- ptyalism — excessive secretion of saliva.
- ptyalize — to induce the flow of saliva
- puyallup — a member of a Salishan-speaking North American Indian tribe living in the Puget Sound area of Washington.
- ramayana — an epic of India, one of the Puranas attributed to Valmiki and concerned with the life and adventures of Ramachandra and his wife Sita.
- rickyard — a place where haystacks or ricks are put
- royal we — we (def 5).
- royalism — the principles of royal government; monarchism
- royalist — a supporter or adherent of a king or royal government, especially in times of rebellion or civil war.
- royalize — make royal
- rubaiyat — (in Persian poetry) a verse form consisting of four-line stanzas
- sailyard — a yard for a sail.
- saleyard — an area with pens for holding animals before auction
- sannyasi — Hinduism. a wandering beggar and ascetic.
- savoyard — a native or inhabitant of Savoy.
- schryari — a musical woodwind instrument of the 16th and 17th centuries having a double reed concealed in a cylinder and producing a shrill tone.
- sequoyah — 1770?–1843, Cherokee Indian scholar: inventor of a syllabary for writing Cherokee.
- shaoyang — a city in central Hunan province, in E China.
- shenyang — Pinyin, Wade-Giles. a province in NE China. 58,301 sq. mi. (151,000 sq. km). Capital: Shenyang.
- shipyard — a yard or enclosure in which ships are built or repaired.
- showyard — a yard where cattle and machinery are displayed