8-letter words containing e, r, y, s, i
- sighyper — Special Interest Group on Hypertext and Multimedia of the SGML Users' Group.
- silverly — with a silvery appearance or sound.
- siserary — a scolding
- sisterly — of, like, or befitting a sister: sisterly affection.
- skinnery — a place where skins are prepared, as for the market.
- skittery — skittish.
- skydiver — freefalling parachutist
- skywrite — to engage in skywriting.
- sliddery — slippery
- slippery — tending or liable to cause slipping or sliding, as ice, oil, a wet surface, etc.: a slippery road.
- slithery — to slide down or along a surface, especially unsteadily, from side to side, or with some friction or noise: The box slithered down the chute.
- smithery — the work, craft, or workshop of a smith.
- snailery — a place where snails are bred
- snickery — of, pertaining to, or resembling a snicker
- sobriety — the state or quality of being sober.
- soldiery — soldiers collectively.
- spinnery — a spinning mill.
- spivvery — the characteristic behaviour of a spiv
- squirely — belonging or relating to, or appropriate to, a squire or squires
- sybarite — (usually lowercase) a person devoted to luxury and pleasure.
- synergic — the interaction of elements that when combined produce a total effect that is greater than the sum of the individual elements, contributions, etc.; synergism.
- synergid — one of two small cells that lie inside the embryo sac of a flowering plant and nourish the ovum.
- syringes — a small device consisting of a glass, metal, or hard rubber tube, narrowed at its outlet, and fitted with either a piston or a rubber bulb for drawing in a quantity of fluid or for ejecting fluid in a stream, for cleaning wounds, injecting fluids into the body, etc.
- tinselry — cheap and pretentious display.
- tyrosine — a crystalline amino acid, HOC 6 H 4 CH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, abundant in ripe cheese, that acts as a precursor of norepinephrine and dopamine. Symbol: Y. Abbreviation: Tyr;
- vespiary — a nest of social wasps.
- vestiary — of or relating to garments or vestments.
- waywiser — a device formerly used for measuring distance travelled by road
- whiskery — whiskers, a beard.
- whispery — like a whisper: a soft, whispery voice.
- yearlies — Plural form of yearly.
- yersinia — A Gram-negative bacterium, of the genus Yersinia, that is an etiological agent of several diseases in animals and humans, notably Yersinia pestis, which causes bubonic plague.
- yessiree — (informal) A more enthusiastic way of saying yes.