8-Letter Words Containing: C,Y,A

• subject an aircraft to air piracy

• effusively or insincerely emotional

• medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings

• the dishonesty of a charlatan

• a check issued in payment of wages or salary

• a tart spicy quality

• the quality of being agreeably stimulating or mentally exciting

• 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

• in a hopeless resigned manner