9-letter words containing e, y, s, o
- sourberry — lemonade berry.
- southerly — a wind that blows from the south.
- sow-belly — fat salt pork taken from the belly of a hog.
- soy sauce — a salty, fermented sauce prepared from soybeans, used in East Asian cuisine.
- soya bean — soybean.
- spongefly — any of several insects of the family Sisyridae, the aquatic larvae of which feed on freshwater sponges.
- sporocyte — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- sporogeny — the process of spore formation in plants and animals
- stableboy — a person who works in a stable.
- stay over — spend the night
- stenotype — a keyboard machine resembling a typewriter, used in a system of phonetic shorthand.
- stenotypy — shorthand in which alphabetic letters or types are used to produce shortened forms of words or groups of words.
- storyette — a short or shortened story
- storyless — a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
- storyline — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- streetboy — a boy living on the street
- strongyle — any nematode of the family Strongylidae, parasitic as an adult in the intestine of mammals, especially horses.
- stylebook — a book containing rules of usage in typography, punctuation, etc., employed by printers, editors, and writers.
- stylobate — a course of masonry, part of the stereobate, forming the foundation for a colonnade, especially the outermost colonnade.
- stylolite — an irregular columnar structure in certain limestones, the columns being approximately at right angles to the bedding planes.
- stylopize — (of a stylops) to parasitize (a host)
- surgeoncy — the office, duties, or position of a surgeon, esp in the army or navy
- syllogize — to reason or infer by using syllogisms
- symbioses — Biology. the living together of two dissimilar organisms, as in mutualism, commensalism, amensalism, or parasitism. (formerly) mutualism (def 1).
- symbolise — to be a symbol of; stand for or represent in the manner of a symbol.
- symbolize — to be a symbol of; stand for or represent in the manner of a symbol.
- synagogue — a Jewish house of worship, often having facilities for religious instruction.
- syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
- synecious — synoicous.
- synedrion — an assembly of judges or representatives
- synoecism — (in ancient Greece) the union of towns under one capital city
- synoecize — (in ancient Greece) to unite under one capital city
- synoekete — an insect that lives in the nests of social insects, esp ants, without receiving any attentions from the inmates
- synopsize — to make a synopsis of; summarize.
- syntonize — to render syntonic; tune to the same frequency.
- tediosity — tediousness
- tediously — marked by monotony or tedium; long and tiresome: tedious tasks; a tedious journey.
- telescopy — the use of the telescope.
- tenuously — thin or slender in form, as a thread.
- testimony — Law. the statement or declaration of a witness under oath or affirmation, usually in court.
- theocrasy — a mixture of religious forms and deities by worshipers.
- theosophy — any of various forms of philosophical or religious thought based on a mystical insight into the divine nature.
- unsoberly — in an unsober manner
- vasectomy — excision of the vas deferens, or of a portion of it: performed to effect sterility in men.
- ventosity — flatulence
- verbosely — characterized by the use of many or too many words; wordy: a verbose report.
- verbosity — the state or quality of being verbose; superfluity of words; wordiness: His speeches were always marred by verbosity.
- voyeurism — the practice of obtaining sexual gratification by looking at sexual objects or acts, especially secretively.
- wayzgoose — A holiday or party for the benefit of printers, traditionally held in August.
- whiteboys — a secret agrarian peasant organization, active in Ireland during the early 1760s, whose members wore white shirts for recognition on their night raids to destroy crops, barns, and other property in redressing grievances against landlords and protesting the paying of tithes.