8-Letter Words Containing: A,C,A,Y

• A stay (rope, bar or batten), running along a ship's yard, to which is attached the head of a square sail.

• A cable between two ships or from a ship to a fixed point which can be used to support a load during transfer of personnel or materiel along the cable.

• A line (rope, webbing or cable), attached to a boat at the ends, to which a safety harness can be clipped to restrain falling in rough conditions and to prevent falling overboard.

• (underwater diving) A line fixed at both ends, which may be used to guide a load or a diver along the route of the line. Uses include guidance to and from the underwater work site, and as a means of controlling an underwater search.

• the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily:

• the quality of being sufficient for the end in view

• an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship

• having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses)

• change by catalysis or cause to catalyze

• the act of reproducing recorded sound

• electronic equipment comprising the part of a tape recorder that reproduces the recorded material

• financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment)

• the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life

• the grounds in back of a house

• the art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines

• a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold

• a stack of hay