Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 8-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like TRY often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: ancestry, artistry, banditry.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| ancestry | 8 | 3 | |
| artistry | 8 | 3 | |
| banditry | 8 | 3 | |
| barratry | 8 | 3 | |
| barretry | 8 | 3 | |
| basketry | 8 | 3 | |
| biometry | 8 | 3 | |
| coquetry | 8 | 3 | |
| corsetry | 8 | 3 | |
| deviltry | 8 | 3 | |
| errantry | 8 | 3 | |
| forestry | 8 | 3 | |
| gadgetry | 8 | 3 | |
| geometry | 8 | 3 | |
| gyniatry | 8 | 3 | |
| harlotry | 8 | 3 | |
| hermitry | 8 | 3 | |
| idolatry | 8 | 4 | |
| industry | 8 | 3 | |
| infantry | 8 | 3 | |
| isometry | 8 | 4 | |
| jesuitry | 8 | 3 | |
| maumetry | 8 | 3 | |
| ministry | 8 | 3 | |
| misentry | 8 | 3 | |
| musketry | 8 | 3 | |
| nonentry | 8 | 3 | |
| odometry | 8 | 4 | |
| papistry | 8 | 3 | |
| pedantry | 8 | 3 | |
| podiatry | 8 | 3 | |
| punditry | 8 | 3 | |
| puppetry | 8 | 3 | |
| quixotry | 8 | 3 | |
| rabbitry | 8 | 3 | |
| registry | 8 | 3 | |
| rocketry | 8 | 3 | |
| subentry | 8 | 3 | |
| summitry | 8 | 3 | |
| symmetry | 8 | 3 | |
| sympatry | 8 | 3 | |
| tanistry | 8 | 3 | |
| tapestry | 8 | 3 | |
| tenantry | 8 | 3 | |
| toiletry | 8 | 3 | |
| truantry | 8 | 2 | |
| udometry | 8 | 4 | |
| varletry | 8 | 3 | |
| zealotry | 8 | 3 | |
| zoolatry | 8 | 3 | |
| zoometry | 8 | 3 |
What’s typical about TRY-ending words?
TRY often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.