8-letter words that end in y
- cajolery — persuasion by flattery or promises; wheedling; coaxing.
- calamary — a squid: so called from its pen-shaped skeleton
- calamity — A calamity is an event that causes a great deal of damage, destruction, or personal distress.
- calendry — a place where calendering is carried out
- calidity — warmth
- calloway — Cab(ell) 1907–1994, U.S. jazz bandleader and singer.
- camaguey — a city in E central Cuba. Pop: 320 000 (2005 est)
- can buoy — a buoy with a flat-topped cylindrical shape above water, marking the left side of a channel leading into a harbour: red in British waters but green (occasionally black) in US waters
- candidly — frank; outspoken; open and sincere: a candid critic.
- caninity — the quality or state of being canine
- cannonry — a volley of artillery fire
- cantigny — a village in N France, S of Amiens: first major battle of U.S. forces in World War I, May 1918.
- capacity — The capacity of a container is its volume, or the amount of liquid it can hold, measured in units such as litres or gallons.
- cape ray — a promontory in SW Newfoundland, Canada
- card key — a small plastic card with magnetic coding that is read electronically when inserted into a scanner and used in place of a key to open locks, hotel doors, etc.
- card-key — a small plastic card with magnetic coding that is read electronically when inserted into a scanner and used in place of a key to open locks, hotel doors, etc.
- caringly — In a caring manner.
- carnally — pertaining to or characterized by the flesh or the body, its passions and appetites; sensual: carnal pleasures.
- carraway — Alternative form of caraway.
- cartoony — cartoonish
- case bay — (in a roof or floor) the section between two principals.
- castaway — A castaway is a person who has managed to swim or float to a lonely island or shore after their boat has sunk.
- casually — happening by chance; fortuitous: a casual meeting.
- casualty — A casualty is a person who is injured or killed in a war or in an accident.
- catagory — Misspelling of category.
- catchcry — a well-known, frequently used phrase, esp one associated with a particular group, etc
- catchfly — any of several caryophyllaceous plants of the genus Silene that have sticky calyxes and stems on which insects are sometimes trapped
- category — If people or things are divided into categories, they are divided into groups in such a way that the members of each group are similar to each other in some way.
- catenary — the curve assumed by a heavy uniform flexible cord hanging freely from two points. When symmetrical about the y-axis and intersecting it at y = a, the equation is y = a cosh x/a
- caudally — Anatomy, Zoology. of, at, or near the tail or the posterior end of the body.
- causally — of, constituting, or implying a cause.
- causeway — A causeway is a raised path or road that crosses water or wet land.
- cavitary — having or containing cavities
- celerity — rapidity; swiftness; speed
- celibacy — Celibacy is the state of being celibate.
- cemetary — Misspelling of cemetery.
- cemetery — A cemetery is a place where dead people's bodies or their ashes are buried.
- centaury — any Eurasian plant of the genus Centaurium, esp C. erythraea, having purplish-pink flowers and formerly believed to have medicinal properties: family Gentianaceae
- centiday — One one-hundredth (1/100) of one day; that is, 14 minutes and 24 seconds.
- ceremony — A ceremony is a formal event such as a wedding.
- cetology — the branch of zoology concerned with the study of whales (cetaceans)
- chaffery — the act of bargaining
- chambery — a city in SE France, in the Alps: skiing centre; former capital of the duchy of Savoy. Pop: 59 188 (2006)
- chambray — a smooth light fabric of cotton, linen, etc, with white weft and a coloured warp
- chancery — In Britain, the Chancery or Chancery Division is the Lord Chancellor's court, which is a division of the High Court of Justice.
- chancily — In a chancy manner.
- channery — an accumulation of thin, flat, coarse fragments of sandstone, limestone, or schist with diameters up to 6 inches (15 cm): used in Scotland and Ireland for gravel.
- chaology — the study of chaos theory
- chapatty — Archaic spelling of chapatti.
- chapelry — the district legally assigned to and served by an Anglican chapel