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

• 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.

• exceptional creative ability

• possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers

• The anniversary of a person's death, usually a parent's, often marked by the lighting of a memorial candle and other rituals.

• (nuclear industry) Any of a set of specialist alloys of zirconium

• common jay of eastern North America; bright blue with grey breast

• a medical instrument for separating substances in solution by unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes

• the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part

• (elections) more than half of the votes

• the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs