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8-letter words containing h, y

  • sphygmus — the pulse.
  • spinachy — characteristic of spinach
  • splotchy — marked or covered with splotches.
  • spy ship — a ship carrying surveillance equipment, used to secretly observe an enemy state from the sea
  • squooshy — soft and squashy
  • stealthy — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
  • stomachy — paunchy; having a prominent stomach.
  • strachey — (Giles) Lytton [jahylz lit-n] /dʒaɪlz ˈlɪt n/ (Show IPA), 1880–1932, English biographer and literary critic.
  • stretchy — having a tendency to stretch, especially excessively or unduly.
  • subhyoid — Also, hyoidal, hyoidean. noting or pertaining to a U -shaped bone at the root of the tongue in humans, or a corresponding bone or collection of bones in animals.
  • sulphury — of the nature of, characteristic of or resembling sulphur
  • sunshiny — the shining of the sun; direct light of the sun.
  • symbmath — (mathematics, tool)   A small symbolic mathematics package for MS-DOS which can learn new facts.
  • sympathy — harmony of or agreement in feeling, as between persons or on the part of one person with respect to another.
  • symphile — an insect or other organism that lives in the nests of social insects, esp ants and termites, and is fed and reared by the inmates
  • symphony — Music. an elaborate instrumental composition in three or more movements, similar in form to a sonata but written for an orchestra and usually of far grander proportions and more varied elements. an instrumental passage occurring in a vocal composition, or between vocal movements in a composition. an instrumental piece, often in several movements, forming the overture to an opera or the like.
  • synanthy — an abnormal fusion of two or more flowers
  • synaphea — a continuity of rhythm throughout a poem
  • synarchy — joint rule
  • synching — synchronization: The picture and the soundtrack were out of sync.
  • synchro- — indicating synchronization
  • synechia — any adhesion of parts of the body, as of the iris to the cornea.
  • syngraph — a document signed by all parties
  • synthase — an enzyme that catalyses a process of synthesis
  • synthpop — popular music played with synthesizers and having light upbeat melodies and lyrics.
  • syphilis — a chronic infectious disease, caused by a spirochete, Treponema pallidum, usually venereal in origin but often congenital, and affecting almost any organ or tissue in the body, especially the genitals, skin, mucous membranes, aorta, brain, liver, bones, and nerves.
  • syphoned — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
  • ta'ziyah — a passion play commemorating the martyrdom of Hussein, grandson of Muhammad and son of Ali and Fatima, on the tenth of Muharram, a.d. 680.
  • tally-ho — the cry of a participant at a hunt to encourage the hounds when the quarry is sighted
  • tetchily — irritable; touchy.
  • thankyou — If you refer to something as a thankyou for what someone has done for you, you mean that it is intended as a way of thanking them.
  • that way — (used with adjectives and adverbs of quantity or extent) to the extent or degree indicated: that much; The fish was that big.
  • thataway — in or toward the direction pointed out: The outlaws went thataway when they rode out of town.
  • the city — the financial and commercial district of Greater London
  • the holy — a sacred place
  • the lyre — the constellation Lyra
  • the many — the majority of mankind, esp the common people
  • the navy — the branch of a country's armed services comprising such ships, their crews, and all their supporting services and equipment
  • the only — being single or very few in number
  • the poky — prison
  • the yard — Scotland Yard
  • the yeas — the votes in favour of something
  • the yips — (in golf) nervous twitching or tension that destroys concentration and spoils performance
  • thearchy — the rule or government of God or of a god.
  • theodicy — a vindication of the divine attributes, particularly holiness and justice, in establishing or allowing the existence of physical and moral evil.
  • theogony — the origin of the gods.
  • theology — the field of study and analysis that treats of God and of God's attributes and relations to the universe; study of divine things or religious truth; divinity.
  • theonomy — the state of an individual or society that regards its own nature and norms as being in accord with the divine nature.
  • thessaly — a region in E Greece: a former division of ancient Greece. 5208 sq. mi. (14,490 sq. km).
  • thickety — full of or covered with thickets, dense brush or undergrowth
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