8-letter words that end in y
- boringly — causing or marked by boredom: a boring discussion; to have a boring time.
- bot army — a group of computers, infected with malign programs via the internet, that can be controlled remotely to, for example, mount denial-of-service attacks
- botchery — an instance of botched workmanship
- bottomry — a contract whereby the owner of a ship borrows money to enable the vessel to complete the voyage and pledges the ship as security for the loan
- boundary — The boundary of an area of land is an imaginary line that separates it from other areas.
- bovinity — the state of being bovine
- bowingly — in a curved manner
- boxberry — the fruit of the partridgeberry or wintergreen
- boxology — (graphics) /bok-sol'*-jee/ ASCII art. This term implies a more restricted domain, that of box-and-arrow drawings. "His report has a lot of boxology in it." Compare macrology.
- bradbury — Sir Malcolm (Stanley). 1932–2000, British novelist and critic. His novels include The History Man (1975), Rates of Exchange (1983), Cuts (1988), and Doctor Criminale (1992)
- brazenly — shameless or impudent: brazen presumption.
- brazenry — the quality of being brazen or an example of brazenness
- breezily — abounding in breezes; windy.
- breviary — a book of psalms, hymns, prayers, etc, to be recited daily by clerics in major orders and certain members of religious orders as part of the divine office
- bridally — in a manner appropriate for a bride
- brindley — James. 1716–72, British canal builder, who constructed (1759–61) the Bridgewater Canal, the first in England
- brinkley — David, 1920–2003, U.S. broadcast journalist.
- brittany — a region of NW France, the peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay: settled by Celtic refugees from Wales and Cornwall during the Anglo-Saxon invasions; disputed between England and France until 1364
- broadway — a thoroughfare in New York City, famous for its theatres: the centre of the commercial theatre in the US
- broguery — the use of a brogue or accent
- broidery — a piece of embroidery
- bronzify — to make into bronze
- broodily — in a broody manner
- brutally — savage; cruel; inhuman: a brutal attack on the village.
- bryology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of bryophytes
- buccally — from the point of view of the cheek or mouth
- buckstay — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- bulb fly — a hoverfly, the larvae of which live in bulbs and can become serious pests, esp the yellow and black narcissus bulb fly (Meridon equestris)
- bulk-buy — to buy (goods) in large quantities
- bull bay — evergreen magnolia.
- bullocky — the driver of a team of bullocks
- bullyboy — a ruffian or tough, esp a hired one
- bulrushy — made of or resembling bulrushes
- bunchily — in a bunchy manner
- buoyancy — Buoyancy is the ability that something has to float on a liquid or in the air.
- burberry — a light good-quality raincoat, esp of gabardine
- burghley — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. 1520–98, English statesman: chief adviser to Elizabeth I; secretary of state (1558–72) and Lord High Treasurer (1572–98)
- burglary — If someone commits a burglary, they enter a building by force and steal things. Burglary is the act of doing this.
- burgundy — Burgundy is used to describe things that are purplish-red in colour.
- bushbaby — any agile nocturnal arboreal prosimian primate of the genera Galago and Euoticus, occurring in Africa south of the Sahara: family Lorisidae (lorises). They have large eyes and ears and a long tail
- busybody — If you refer to someone as a busybody, you are criticizing the way they interfere in other people's affairs.
- butchery — You can refer to the cruel killing of a lot of people as butchery when you want to express your horror and disgust at this.
- ca'canny — moderation or wariness
- cabbagey — resembling a cabbage
- cableway — a system for moving people or bulk materials in which suspended cars, buckets, etc, run on cables that extend between terminal towers
- cacodoxy — an erroneous doctrine or heterodoxy
- cacology — a bad choice of words; faulty speech
- caconymy — the practice of coining caconyms
- caducity — perishableness
- caecally — with relation to the caecum