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6-letter words containing e, y, r, s

  • savery — Thomas. ?1650–1715, English engineer, who built (1698) the first practical steam engine, used to pump water from mines
  • sawyer — a person who saws wood, especially as an occupation.
  • sayers — Dorothy L(eigh) 1893–1957, English novelist, essayist, and dramatist.
  • screwy — crazy; nutty: I think you're screwy, refusing an invitation to the governor's dinner.
  • scryer — a person who scries
  • searcy — a city in central Arkansas.
  • senary — of or relating to the number six.
  • senryu — a form of Japanese short poem similar to a haiku, but traditionally on the theme of human nature
  • sentry — a soldier stationed at a place to stand guard and prevent the passage of unauthorized persons, watch for fires, etc., especially a sentinel stationed at a pass, gate, opening in a defense work, or the like.
  • severy — (in a vaulted structure) one bay between two principal transverse arches.
  • sherry — a fortified, amber-colored wine of southern Spain or any of various similar wines made elsewhere.
  • sheryl — a female given name, form of Shirley.
  • skerry — a small, rocky island.
  • skryer — someone who practises skrying
  • slayer — to kill by violence.
  • smeary — showing smears; smeared.
  • sneery — contemptuous or scornful; inclined to be dismissive
  • snyderGary, born 1930, U.S. poet and essayist.
  • sorely — in a painful manner.
  • speary — resembling or characteristic of spears
  • sperryElmer Ambrose, 1860–1930, U.S. inventor and manufacturer.
  • speyer — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine.
  • sphery — having the form of a sphere; spherelike.
  • stayer — a person or thing that stays
  • steery — a commotion or disturbance
  • storey — story2 .
  • styler — a person or thing that styles.
  • surely — firmly; unerringly; without missing, slipping, etc.
  • surety — security against loss or damage or for the fulfillment of an obligation, the payment of a debt, etc.; a pledge, guaranty, or bond.
  • surrey — a light, four-wheeled, two-seated carriage, with or without a top, for four persons.
  • survey — to take a general or comprehensive view of or appraise, as a situation, area of study, etc.
  • sweary — characterized by or involving the use of swearwords
  • sypher — to join (boards having beveled edges) so as to make a flush surface.
  • thyrse — a compact branching inflorescence, as of the lilac, in which the main axis is indeterminate and the lateral axes are determinate.
  • tressy — resembling or having tresses.
  • troyes — a river in N France, flowing NW to the Seine. 125 miles (200 km) long.
  • tuyers — an opening through which the blast of air enters a blast furnace, cupola, forge, or the like, to facilitate combustion.
  • vestry — a room in or a building attached to a church, in which the vestments, and sometimes liturgical objects, are kept; sacristy.
  • wryest — Superlative form of wry.
  • xyster — A surgical instrument used to scrape bones.
  • yearns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of yearn.
  • yerbas — Plural form of yerba.
  • yerkesCharles Tyson, 1837–1905, U.S. financier and mass-transit magnate.
  • yessir — Used to express assent.
  • yester — of or relating to yesterday.
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