Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 8-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like DY often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: antibody, bastardy, burgundy.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| antibody | 8 | 4 | |
| bastardy | 8 | 3 | |
| burgundy | 8 | 3 | |
| busybody | 8 | 4 | |
| charlady | 8 | 3 | |
| coembody | 8 | 3 | |
| custardy | 8 | 3 | |
| diploidy | 8 | 3 | |
| dogsbody | 8 | 3 | |
| euploidy | 8 | 3 | |
| forebody | 8 | 4 | |
| forelady | 8 | 4 | |
| haploidy | 8 | 3 | |
| hexapody | 8 | 4 | |
| homebody | 8 | 4 | |
| jeopardy | 8 | 3 | |
| landlady | 8 | 3 | |
| monopody | 8 | 4 | |
| mustardy | 8 | 3 | |
| nonhardy | 8 | 3 | |
| nonwoody | 8 | 3 | |
| outstudy | 8 | 3 | |
| pandowdy | 8 | 3 | |
| petalody | 8 | 4 | |
| polypody | 8 | 4 | |
| psalmody | 8 | 3 | |
| reembody | 8 | 3 | |
| rhapsody | 8 | 3 | |
| somebody | 8 | 4 | |
| threnody | 8 | 3 | |
| unbloody | 8 | 3 | |
| ungreedy | 8 | 3 | |
| unsteady | 8 | 3 | |
| untrendy | 8 | 3 | |
| unwieldy | 8 | 3 |
What’s typical about DY-ending words?
DY often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.