9-letter words with AY in the middle
Delve into the fascinating world of words where the letter AY is nestled in the middle. This section highlights the unique placement of AY in various words, illustrating how it contributes to their sound and meaning. From everyday language to more unusual terms, discover how AY in the middle shapes the essence of these words.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| displayed | 16 | - | - |
| portrayed | 15 | represented graphically by sketch or design or lines | - |
| daylights | 17 | - | - |
| mayflower | 20 | low-growing evergreen shrub of eastern North America with leathery leaves and clusters of fragrant pink or white flowers | - |
| playhouse | 17 | plaything consisting of a small model of a house that children can play inside of | - |
| repayment | 16 | the act of returning money received previously | - |
| portrayal | 14 | representation by drawing or painting etc | - |
| plaything | 18 | an artifact designed to be played with | - |
| playfully | 20 | in a playful manner | she loosened the half-hoop of diamonds on her left hand third finger and held it out to him playfully |
| panchayat | 19 | a village council in India or southern Pakistan | - |
| jambalaya | 23 | spicy Creole dish of rice and ham, sausage, chicken, or shellfish with tomatoes, peppers, onions, and celery | - |
| playmaker | 20 | a player in a team sport who leads attacks or maneuvers in such a way that a teammate can score | - |
| paymaster | 16 | a person in charge of paying wages | - |
| bayoneted | 15 | - | - |
| leastways | 15 | if nothing else (`leastwise' is informal and `leastways' is colloquial) | - |
| haymaking | 22 | cutting grass and curing it to make hay | - |
| waylaying | 19 | - | - |
| layperson | 14 | someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person | - |
| repayable | 16 | subject to repayment | business loans are usually repayable in regular installments |
| missaying | 15 | - | - |
| misplayed | 17 | - | - |
| misarrays | 14 | - | - |
| misassays | 14 | - | - |
| mislayers | 14 | - | - |
| mislaying | 15 | - | - |
| monolayer | 14 | - | - |
| motorways | 17 | - | - |
| mulloways | 17 | - | - |
| namaycush | 19 | - | - |
| naysayers | 15 | - | - |
| naysaying | 16 | the act of saying no to a request | - |
| nonplayer | 14 | - | - |
| nonpaying | 15 | - | - |
| outlaying | 13 | - | - |
| outprayed | 15 | - | - |
| outplayed | 15 | - | - |
| outstayed | 13 | - | - |
| outsaying | 13 | - | - |
| oversways | 18 | - | - |
| overstays | 15 | - | - |
| overplays | 17 | - | - |
| paychecks | 25 | - | - |
| paygrades | 16 | - | - |
| payphones | 19 | - | - |
| paysagist | 15 | - | - |
| parlaying | 15 | - | - |
| mayhappen | 21 | - | - |
| mayoralty | 17 | the position of mayor | - |
| mayorship | 19 | - | - |
| maybushes | 19 | - | - |
| mayapples | 18 | - | - |
| minelayer | 14 | ship equipped for laying marine mines | - |
| metayages | 15 | - | - |
| widthways | 22 | - | - |
| yeasayers | 15 | - | - |
| wordplays | 18 | - | - |
| workadays | 20 | - | - |
| wayboards | 18 | - | - |
| waybreads | 18 | - | - |
| wayfarers | 18 | - | - |
| waywisers | 18 | - | - |
| wayzgoose | 25 | - | - |
| waywardly | 22 | - | - |
| waypoints | 17 | - | - |
| wayfaring | 19 | traveling especially on foot | a poor wayfaring stranger |
| waygoings | 17 | - | - |
| waygooses | 16 | - | - |
| waylayers | 18 | - | - |
| wayleaves | 18 | - | - |
| waymarked | 22 | - | - |
| waymented | 18 | - | - |
| welladays | 16 | - | - |
| wellaways | 18 | - | - |
| walkaways | 22 | - | - |
| wasteways | 18 | - | - |
| waterways | 18 | - | - |
| washaways | 21 | - | - |
| warraying | 16 | - | - |
| sashaying | 16 | - | - |
| sayonaras | 12 | - | - |
| slideways | 16 | - | - |
| slantways | 15 | at a slant; moving or directed in a slantwise position or direction | - |
| soothsays | 15 | - | - |
| southsays | 15 | - | - |
| soakaways | 19 | - | - |
| spillways | 17 | - | - |
| spoonways | 17 | - | - |
| splayfeet | 17 | - | - |
| splayfoot | 17 | a foot afflicted with a fallen arch; abnormally flattened and spread out | - |
| speedways | 18 | - | - |
| stairways | 15 | - | - |
| sprayiest | 14 | - | - |
| sprayings | 15 | - | - |
| stingrays | 13 | - | - |
| stayaways | 18 | - | - |
| staymaker | 18 | - | - |
| staysails | 12 | - | - |
| sternways | 15 | - | - |
| strayving | 16 | - | - |
| strayling | 13 | - | - |
| strayings | 13 | - | - |
| stowaways | 18 | - | - |
| ridgeways | 17 | - | - |
| rockaways | 21 | - | - |
| riverways | 18 | - | - |
| rollaways | 15 | - | - |
| routeways | 15 | - | - |
| takeaways | 19 | - | - |
| teleplays | 14 | - | - |
| tearaways | 15 | - | - |
| taxpayers | 21 | - | - |
| taxpaying | 22 | not exempt from paying taxes | after training they became productive taxpaying citizens |
| tayassuid | 13 | - | - |
| trainways | 15 | - | - |
| trackways | 21 | - | - |
| unallayed | 13 | - | - |
| unassayed | 13 | - | - |
| unarrayed | 13 | - | - |
| twayblade | 18 | orchid having a pair of ovate leaves and a long slender raceme of green flowers sometimes tinged red-brown; Europe to central Asia | - |
| underlays | 13 | - | - |
| underpays | 15 | - | - |
| undersays | 13 | - | - |
| undelayed | 14 | - | - |
| undecayed | 16 | - | - |
| unpayable | 16 | - | - |
| unessayed | 13 | - | - |
| unstaying | 13 | - | - |
| unsprayed | 15 | - | - |
| unpraying | 15 | - | - |
| unsayable | 14 | - | - |
| upbraying | 17 | - | - |
| upstaying | 15 | - | - |
| upswaying | 18 | - | - |
| ventayles | 15 | - | - |
| subwaying | 18 | - | - |
| swaybacks | 23 | - | - |
| swaylings | 16 | - | - |
| pitahayas | 17 | - | - |
| pipeclays | 18 | - | - |
| playacted | 17 | - | - |
| playgoers | 15 | - | - |
| playgoing | 16 | - | - |
| playgroup | 17 | - | - |
| playlands | 15 | - | - |
| playlists | 14 | - | - |
| playmates | 16 | - | - |
| playgirls | 15 | - | - |
| playactor | 16 | an actor who travels around the country presenting plays | - |
| playbacks | 22 | - | - |
| playbills | 16 | - | - |
| playbooks | 20 | - | - |
| playbuses | 16 | - | - |
| playdates | 15 | - | - |
| playdowns | 18 | - | - |
| playfield | 18 | - | - |
| playrooms | 16 | - | - |
| playsuits | 14 | - | - |
| playtimes | 16 | - | - |
| pranayama | 16 | - | - |
| prayerful | 17 | disposed to pray or appearing to pray | - |
| pourtrayd | 15 | - | - |
| pourtrays | 14 | - | - |
| popinjays | 23 | - | - |
| portrayer | 14 | a painter or drawer of portraits | - |
| prepaying | 17 | - | - |
| prayingly | 18 | - | - |
| quaysides | 22 | - | - |
| raylessly | 15 | - | - |
| ratepayer | 14 | a person who pays local rates (especially a householder) | - |
| replaying | 15 | - | - |
| resprayed | 15 | - | - |
| picayunes | 16 | - | - |
| huntaways | 18 | - | - |
| hurraying | 16 | - | - |
| hooraying | 16 | - | - |
| horseways | 18 | - | - |
| interlays | 12 | - | - |
| inpayment | 16 | - | - |
| inlayings | 13 | - | - |
| jackstays | 25 | - | - |
| jayhawker | 29 | - | - |
| jaywalked | 27 | - | - |
| jaywalker | 26 | a reckless pedestrian who crosses a street illegally | - |
| kilograys | 17 | - | - |
| kayakings | 21 | - | - |
| lancegays | 15 | - | - |
| lechayims | 19 | - | - |
| layabouts | 14 | - | - |
| laybacked | 21 | - | - |
| layerages | 13 | - | - |
| layerings | 13 | - | - |
| laypeople | 16 | - | - |
| layshafts | 18 | - | - |
| laystalls | 12 | - | - |
| lockaways | 21 | - | - |
| mainstays | 14 | - | - |
| manslayer | 14 | a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) | - |
| haystacks | 21 | - | - |
| hayfields | 19 | - | - |
| haymakers | 21 | - | - |
| hatchways | 23 | - | - |
| headstays | 16 | - | - |
| hogmenays | 18 | - | - |
| hogmanays | 18 | - | - |
| hoistways | 18 | - | - |
| holidayed | 17 | - | - |
| holidayer | 16 | - | - |
| hobdaying | 19 | - | - |
| homestays | 17 | - | - |
| hereaways | 18 | - | - |
| hideaways | 19 | - | - |
| copayment | 18 | - | - |
| crossways | 17 | transversely | - |
| crawlways | 20 | - | - |
| crayoners | 14 | - | - |
| crayoning | 15 | - | - |
| crayonist | 14 | - | - |
| craythurs | 17 | - | - |
| cycleways | 22 | - | - |
| decayable | 17 | liable to decay or spoil or become putrid | - |
| decayless | 15 | - | - |
| deejaying | 21 | - | - |
| daytalers | 13 | - | - |
| dayworker | 20 | - | - |
| dayspring | 16 | the first light of day | - |
| dayshells | 16 | - | - |
| daybreaks | 19 | - | - |
| daycentre | 15 | - | - |
| daydreams | 16 | - | - |
| daydreamt | 16 | - | - |
| daydreamy | 19 | - | - |
| dayflower | 19 | any plant of the family Commelinaceae | - |
| daylilies | 13 | - | - |
| darrayned | 14 | - | - |
| defraying | 17 | - | - |
| defrayers | 16 | - | - |
| defrayals | 16 | - | - |
| delayable | 15 | - | - |
| disarrays | 13 | - | - |
| dismayful | 18 | - | - |
| dismaying | 16 | causing consternation | - |
| dismayled | 16 | - | - |
| displayer | 15 | - | - |
| drangways | 17 | - | - |
| downplays | 18 | - | - |
| driveways | 19 | - | - |
| drayhorse | 16 | draft horse kept for pulling carts | - |
| domesdays | 16 | - | - |
| doomsayer | 15 | - | - |
| doomsdays | 16 | - | - |
| embayment | 18 | an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf | - |
| colorways | 17 | - | - |
| essayette | 12 | - | - |
| essayists | 12 | - | - |
| estraying | 13 | - | - |
| everydays | 19 | - | - |
| fayalites | 15 | - | - |
| fallaways | 18 | - | - |
| fadeaways | 19 | - | - |
| fireclays | 17 | - | - |
| floodways | 19 | - | - |
| foreplays | 17 | - | - |
| forestays | 15 | - | - |
| forraying | 16 | - | - |
| forsaying | 16 | - | - |
| foldaways | 19 | - | - |
| frontways | 18 | - | - |
| gaynesses | 13 | - | - |
| gainsayer | 13 | - | - |
| gameplays | 17 | - | - |
| giveaways | 19 | - | - |
| gondelays | 14 | - | - |
| guayabera | 15 | - | - |
| guideways | 17 | - | - |
| gunlayers | 13 | - | - |
| greenways | 16 | - | - |
| graybacks | 21 | - | - |
| graybeard | 16 | a man who is very old | - |
| grayflies | 16 | - | - |
| grayhound | 17 | - | - |
| graylings | 14 | - | - |
| graymails | 15 | - | - |
| grayscale | 15 | - | - |
| graywacke | 22 | - | - |
| graywater | 16 | - | - |
| handplays | 18 | - | - |
| endplayed | 16 | - | - |
| empayring | 17 | - | - |
| entayling | 13 | - | - |
| entryways | 18 | - | - |
| bayadeers | 15 | - | - |
| bayaderes | 15 | - | - |
| ballclays | 16 | - | - |
| bangalays | 15 | - | - |
| bendaying | 16 | - | - |
| bewrayers | 17 | - | - |
| bewraying | 18 | - | - |
| bioassays | 14 | - | - |
| betrayals | 14 | - | - |
| betrayers | 14 | - | - |
| betraying | 15 | - | - |
| birthdays | 18 | - | - |
| broadways | 18 | - | - |
| buckayros | 20 | - | - |
| cableways | 19 | - | - |
| capitayns | 16 | - | - |
| calisayas | 14 | - | - |
| castaways | 17 | - | - |
| causeways | 17 | - | - |
| carraways | 17 | - | - |
| chairdays | 18 | - | - |
| chambrays | 21 | - | - |
| chayroots | 17 | - | - |
| clearways | 17 | - | - |
| claybanks | 20 | - | - |
| claymores | 16 | - | - |
| claystone | 14 | fine-grained rock consisting of compacted clay particles | - |
| claytonia | 14 | genus of mainly North American succulent herbs with white or pink flowers usually in terminal racemes | - |
| claywares | 17 | - | - |
| assayable | 14 | - | - |
| assayings | 13 | - | - |
| backstays | 20 | - | - |
| arrayment | 14 | - | - |
| alleyways | 18 | - | - |
| allayings | 13 | - | - |
| allayment | 14 | - | - |
| aisleways | 15 | - | - |
| affrayers | 18 | - | - |
| affraying | 19 | - | - |
| lesbigays | 15 | - | - |
| mayfishes | 20 | - | - |
| laymanise | 14 | - | - |
| laymanize | 23 | - | - |
| pochaying | 20 | - | - |
| playdough | 19 | - | - |
| playslips | 16 | - | - |
| playwears | 17 | - | - |
| quadplays | 24 | - | - |
| paycheque | 28 | - | - |
| wantaways | 18 | - | - |
| traybakes | 18 | - | - |
| traycloth | 17 | - | - |
| daycation | 15 | - | - |
| daysailed | 14 | - | - |
| daysailer | 13 | - | - |
| daysailor | 13 | - | - |
| gaycation | 15 | - | - |
| fourplays | 17 | - | - |
| galloways | 16 | - | - |
| haycation | 17 | - | - |
| grayheads | 17 | - | - |
| graylists | 13 | - | - |
| graystone | 13 | - | - |
| flysprays | 20 | - | - |
| bayfronts | 17 | - | - |
| balayages | 15 | - | - |
| balayaged | 16 | - | - |
| daytrader | 14 | - | - |
| dayshifts | 19 | - | - |
