7-letter words containing a, y, s
- squashy — easily squashed; pulpy.
- squatty — short and thick; low and broad.
- squawky — unpleasantly discordant or harsh in sound; cacophonous.
- squeaky — squeaking; tending to squeak: His squeaky shoes could be heard across the lobby.
- stachys — any plant of the genus Stachys, esp S. lanata (lamb's ears) and S. officinalis (betony)
- stagery — theatrical effects or techniques, or the arrangement of a production on stage
- staidly — of settled or sedate character; not flighty or capricious.
- standby — a staunch supporter or adherent; one who can be relied upon.
- stanley — Arthur Penrhyn [pen-rin] /ˈpɛn rɪn/ (Show IPA), (Dean Stanley) 1815–81, English clergyman and author.
- starchy — of, relating to, or of the nature of starch.
- starkey — a push button on a telephone or other electronic device that is marked with an asterisk, often in the lower left-hand area.
- starkly — sheer, utter, downright, or complete: stark madness.
- starsys — Convergent Technologies Operating System
- stately — majestic; imposing in magnificence, elegance, etc.: a stately home.
- statusy — conferring or having status or prestige
- stay in — remain at home
- stay on — remain
- stay up — not go to bed
- staying — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
- stayman — a variety of apple grown chiefly in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
- strappy — A strappy dress or top has thin shoulder straps.
- strayve — to wander aimlessly
- streaky — occurring in streaks or a streak.
- streamy — abounding in streams or watercourses: streamy meadows.
- stygian — of or relating to the river Styx or to Hades.
- stylate — having a style.
- suasory — the act of advising, urging, or attempting to persuade; persuasion.
- suavely — (of persons or their manner, speech, etc.) smoothly agreeable or polite; agreeably or blandly urbane.
- suavity — a suave or smoothly agreeable quality.
- suiyuan — a former province in N China: now part of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region
- summary — a comprehensive and usually brief abstract, recapitulation, or compendium of previously stated facts or statements.
- sundays — on Sundays.
- sunyata — that which exists absolutely and without predication.
- swarthy — (of skin color, complexion, etc.) dark.
- sybaris — an ancient Greek city in S Italy: noted for its wealth and luxury; destroyed 510 b.c.
- syllabi — a plural of syllabus.
- synanon — a method of psychotherapy for treating drug addicts, originally practised in the drug rehabilitation centres of the Synanon organization, founded in 1958 in Santa Monica, California
- synapse — a region where nerve impulses are transmitted and received, encompassing the axon terminal of a neuron that releases neurotransmitters in response to an impulse, an extremely small gap across which the neurotransmitters travel, and the adjacent membrane of an axon, dendrite, or muscle or gland cell with the appropriate receptor molecules for picking up the neurotransmitters.
- synapte — a litany.
- synaxis — an assembly for religious worship, especially for the celebration of the Eucharist.
- syncarp — an aggregate fruit.
- syngamy — union of gametes, as in fertilization or conjugation; sexual reproduction.
- synnema — a spore-bearing structure having very compact conidiophores.
- synodal — an assembly of ecclesiastics or other church delegates, convoked pursuant to the law of the church, for the discussion and decision of ecclesiastical affairs; ecclesiastical council.
- synovia — a lubricating fluid resembling the white of an egg, secreted by certain membranes, as those of the joints.
- syntagm — an element that enters into a syntagmatic relationship.
- synthia — the informal name for a self-replicating synthetic bacterium, created in 2010 from a version of the Mycoplasma mycoides genome and implanted into a DNA-free Mycoplasma capricolum bacterial shell. It is the world’s first artificial life form
- syrians — of or relating to Syria or its inhabitants.
- syringa — mock orange (def 1).
- tapstry — a tap-room in a public house