8-letter words with LY in the middle
Delve into the fascinating world of words where the letter LY is nestled in the middle. This section highlights the unique placement of LY in various words, illustrating how it contributes to their sound and meaning. From everyday language to more unusual terms, discover how LY in the middle shapes the essence of these words.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| analysis | 11 | a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud | his physician recommended psychoanalysis |
| olympics | 17 | the modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country | - |
| applying | 16 | - | - |
| bullying | 14 | the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something | - |
| implying | 16 | - | - |
| analyzed | 21 | examined carefully and methodically; broken down for consideration of constituent parts | the analyzed data indicated surprising trends |
| dialysis | 12 | separation of substances in solution by means of their unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes | - |
| catalyst | 13 | (chemistry) a substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected | - |
| rallying | 12 | the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort | he feared the rallying of their troops for a counterattack |
| paralyze | 22 | cause to be paralyzed and immobile | The poison paralyzed him |
| polygamy | 19 | the condition or practice of having more than one spouse at a time | - |
| analysed | 12 | - | - |
| olympiad | 16 | the modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country | - |
| outlying | 12 | relatively far from a center or middle | outlying settlements |
| newlywed | 18 | someone recently married | - |
| dallying | 13 | - | - |
| lollypop | 15 | - | - |
| flywheel | 20 | regulator consisting of a heavy wheel that stores kinetic energy and smooths the operation of a reciprocating engine | - |
| analyzer | 20 | an instrument that performs analyses | - |
| paralyse | 13 | cause to be paralyzed and immobile | - |
| bellyful | 16 | an undesirable overabundance | a bellyful of your complaints |
| analytic | 13 | of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience | `all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition |
| flypaper | 18 | paper that is poisoned or coated with a sticky substance to kill flies | - |
| glycerin | 14 | a sweet syrupy trihydroxy alcohol obtained by saponification of fats and oils | - |
| polyglot | 14 | a person who speaks more than one language | - |
| tallying | 12 | - | - |
| polymath | 18 | a person of great and varied learning | - |
| glycerol | 14 | a sweet syrupy trihydroxy alcohol obtained by saponification of fats and oils | - |
| glycogen | 15 | one form in which body fuel is stored; stored primarily in the liver and broken down into glucose when needed by the body | - |
| lollygag | 13 | be about | - |
| slyboots | 13 | a shifty deceptive person | - |
| pollywog | 17 | a larval frog or toad | - |
| willywaw | 20 | - | - |
| willyard | 15 | - | - |
| willyart | 14 | - | - |
| willying | 15 | - | - |
| sullying | 12 | - | - |
| tallyman | 13 | one who keeps a tally of quantity or weight of goods produced or shipped or received | - |
| tallymen | 13 | - | - |
| tallyhos | 14 | - | - |
| triglyph | 17 | - | - |
| tuilyied | 12 | - | - |
| tuilyies | 11 | - | - |
| spulyied | 14 | - | - |
| spulyies | 13 | - | - |
| sallying | 12 | - | - |
| sealyham | 16 | a wire-haired terrier with short legs that was first bred in Sealyham | - |
| scolytid | 14 | - | - |
| replying | 14 | - | - |
| plywoods | 17 | - | - |
| polyacid | 16 | - | - |
| polyadic | 16 | - | - |
| polyarch | 18 | - | - |
| polyaxon | 20 | - | - |
| polybrid | 16 | - | - |
| polycots | 15 | - | - |
| polyenes | 13 | - | - |
| polyenic | 15 | - | - |
| polygala | 14 | type genus of the Polygalaceae: milkwort; senega; snakeroot | - |
| polygams | 16 | - | - |
| polynyas | 16 | - | - |
| polyomas | 15 | - | - |
| polyonym | 18 | - | - |
| polypary | 18 | - | - |
| polypeds | 16 | - | - |
| polyphon | 18 | - | - |
| polypide | 16 | - | - |
| polypill | 15 | - | - |
| polynias | 13 | - | - |
| polymery | 18 | - | - |
| polygene | 14 | a gene that by itself has little effect on the phenotype but which can act together with others to produce observable variations | - |
| polygeny | 17 | - | - |
| polygons | 14 | - | - |
| polygony | 17 | - | - |
| polygyny | 20 | polygamy in which a man has more than one wife at a time | - |
| polymers | 15 | - | - |
| polypine | 15 | - | - |
| pollywig | 17 | - | - |
| polypite | 15 | - | - |
| polytene | 13 | - | - |
| polyteny | 16 | - | - |
| polytype | 18 | - | - |
| polyuria | 13 | renal disorder characterized by the production of large volumes of pale dilute urine; often associated with diabetes | - |
| polyuric | 15 | - | - |
| polyzoan | 22 | sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding | - |
| polyzoic | 24 | - | - |
| polyzoon | 22 | - | - |
| polysomy | 18 | congenital defect of having one or more extra chromosomes in somatic cells | - |
| polysome | 15 | - | - |
| polypnea | 15 | - | - |
| polypods | 16 | - | - |
| polypody | 19 | any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium | - |
| polypoid | 16 | - | - |
| polypore | 15 | woody pore fungi; any fungus of the family Polyporaceae or family Boletaceae having the spore-bearing surface within tubes or pores; the fruiting bodies are usually woody at maturity and persistent | - |
| polypous | 15 | - | - |
| polyseme | 15 | - | - |
| polysemy | 18 | the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings | - |
| pyrolyse | 16 | - | - |
| pyrolyze | 25 | - | - |
| rallyist | 11 | - | - |
| reflying | 15 | - | - |
| anaglyph | 17 | anything carved in low relief | - |
| analytes | 11 | - | - |
| analyzes | 20 | - | - |
| analysts | 11 | - | - |
| analyser | 11 | an instrument that performs analyses | - |
| analyses | 11 | - | - |
| alyssums | 13 | - | - |
| anolytes | 11 | - | - |
| autolyze | 20 | - | - |
| autolyse | 11 | - | - |
| atmolyse | 13 | - | - |
| atmolyze | 22 | - | - |
| ballyard | 14 | - | - |
| ballyhoo | 16 | blatant or sensational promotion | - |
| ballyrag | 14 | be bossy towards | - |
| bashlyks | 20 | - | - |
| bellying | 14 | curving outward | - |
| biolyses | 13 | - | - |
| biolysis | 13 | - | - |
| biolytic | 15 | - | - |
| billyboy | 18 | - | - |
| billycan | 15 | - | - |
| billyohs | 16 | - | - |
| brulyies | 13 | - | - |
| bullyboy | 18 | a swaggering tough; usually one acting as an agent of a political faction | - |
| bullyism | 15 | - | - |
| bullyrag | 14 | be bossy towards | - |
| acolytes | 13 | - | - |
| acolyths | 16 | - | - |
| acrylyls | 16 | - | - |
| aglycone | 14 | - | - |
| aglycons | 14 | - | - |
| duplying | 15 | - | - |
| elytroid | 12 | - | - |
| elytrous | 11 | - | - |
| epicalyx | 22 | a group of bracts simulating a calyx as in a carnation or hibiscus | - |
| eucalypt | 15 | a tree of the genus Eucalyptus | - |
| ferlying | 15 | - | - |
| flybooks | 20 | - | - |
| flyhands | 18 | - | - |
| flymaker | 20 | - | - |
| flyovers | 17 | - | - |
| flypasts | 16 | - | - |
| flypitch | 21 | - | - |
| flysches | 19 | - | - |
| flyboats | 16 | - | - |
| flyblows | 19 | - | - |
| flyaways | 20 | - | - |
| flybacks | 22 | - | - |
| flybanes | 16 | - | - |
| flybelts | 16 | - | - |
| flyblown | 19 | spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies | flyblown meat |
| flysheet | 17 | - | - |
| follying | 15 | - | - |
| flyspeck | 22 | very small | the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy |
| flytiers | 14 | - | - |
| flytings | 15 | - | - |
| flytraps | 16 | - | - |
| gallying | 13 | - | - |
| dollying | 13 | - | - |
| gullying | 13 | - | - |
| haulyard | 15 | - | - |
| hallyons | 14 | - | - |
| halyards | 15 | - | - |
| hemolyse | 16 | - | - |
| hemolyze | 25 | - | - |
| homelyns | 16 | - | - |
| holydame | 17 | - | - |
| holydams | 17 | - | - |
| holydays | 18 | - | - |
| holytide | 15 | - | - |
| kailyard | 16 | - | - |
| kalyptra | 17 | - | - |
| jeelying | 19 | - | - |
| jellying | 19 | - | - |
| jollyers | 18 | - | - |
| jollying | 19 | - | - |
| klystron | 15 | an electron tube used to generate or amplify electromagnetic radiation in the microwave region by velocity modulation | - |
| lallygag | 13 | be about | - |
| ginglymi | 15 | - | - |
| gillying | 13 | - | - |
| gillyvor | 15 | - | - |
| glycemic | 18 | - | - |
| glycosyl | 17 | - | - |
| glyptals | 14 | - | - |
| glyptics | 16 | the art of engraving on precious stones | - |
| glycoses | 14 | - | - |
| glyconic | 16 | - | - |
| glyceria | 14 | manna grass | - |
| glyceric | 16 | - | - |
| glyceryl | 17 | a trivalent radical derived from glycerol by removing the three hydroxyl radicals | - |
| glycines | 14 | - | - |
| glycolic | 16 | - | - |
| gollying | 13 | - | - |
| gollywog | 16 | - | - |
| glycemia | 16 | - | - |
| mealybug | 16 | scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees | - |
| mersalyl | 13 | - | - |
| mislying | 14 | - | - |
| molybdic | 18 | - | - |
| nonlyric | 13 | - | - |
| olykoeks | 19 | - | - |
| olycooks | 17 | - | - |
| lilylike | 15 | - | - |
| coalyard | 14 | - | - |
| clypeate | 15 | - | - |
| clysters | 13 | - | - |
| collying | 14 | - | - |
| collyria | 13 | - | - |
| cullying | 14 | - | - |
| cullyism | 15 | - | - |
| curlycue | 15 | - | - |
| diglyphs | 18 | - | - |
| dielytra | 12 | - | - |
| diaglyph | 18 | glyptic art consisting of a sunken or depressed engraving or carving on a stone or gem (as opposed to cameo) | - |
| dialysed | 13 | - | - |
| dialyser | 12 | - | - |
| dialyses | 12 | - | - |
| dialytic | 14 | - | - |
| dialyzed | 22 | - | - |
| dialyzer | 21 | a medical instrument for separating substances in solution by unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes | - |
| dialyzes | 21 | - | - |
| calycate | 15 | - | - |
| calyceal | 15 | of or relating to or resembling a calyx | - |
| calyptra | 15 | the hood or cap covering the calyx of certain plants: e.g., the California poppy | - |
| calycine | 15 | of or relating to or resembling a calyx | - |
| calycled | 16 | having a calyculus | - |
| calycles | 15 | - | - |
| calycoid | 16 | - | - |
| calycule | 15 | - | - |
| calyculi | 15 | - | - |
| calypsos | 15 | - | - |
| calypter | 15 | scalelike structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly | - |
| catolyte | 13 | - | - |
| catalyse | 13 | change by catalysis or cause to catalyze | - |
| catalyze | 22 | change by catalysis or cause to catalyze | - |
| pallying | 14 | - | - |
| polybags | 16 | - | - |
| polydrug | 15 | - | - |
| polygyne | 17 | - | - |
| flylines | 14 | - | - |
| flyspray | 19 | - | - |
