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

• An infantry soldier, often of Christian descent and forcibly converted to Islam, in a former elite Turkish (Ottoman) guard (disbanded in 1826); by extension, any Turkish soldier, particularly one escorting a traveller.

• An elite, highly loyal supporter.

• make powerless and unable to function

• cause to be paralyzed and immobile

• a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one

• state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options

• 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

• someone who pays taxes

• an instrument that performs analyses

• a lightweight fabric woven with white threads across a colored warp

• a farm machine that treats hay to cause more rapid and even drying

• a hard punch that renders the opponent unable to continue boxing