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
- snyder — Gary, born 1930, U.S. poet and essayist.
- sorely — in a painful manner.
- speary — resembling or characteristic of spears
- sperry — Elmer 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.
- yerkes — Charles Tyson, 1837–1905, U.S. financier and mass-transit magnate.
- yessir — Used to express assent.
- yester — of or relating to yesterday.