8-letter words containing i, s, p, y
- simplify — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
- sisyphus — a son of Aeolus and ruler of Corinth, noted for his trickery: he was punished in Tartarus by being compelled to roll a stone to the top of a slope, the stone always escaping him near the top and rolling down again.
- sixpenny — of the amount or value of sixpence; costing sixpence.
- skimpily — lacking in size, fullness, etc.; scanty: a skimpy hem; a skimpy dinner.
- sleepily — ready or inclined to sleep; drowsy.
- slippery — tending or liable to cause slipping or sliding, as ice, oil, a wet surface, etc.: a slippery road.
- slippily — in a slippy manner
- sloppily — muddy, slushy, or very wet: The field was a sloppy mess after the rain.
- snippety — sharp or curt, especially in a supercilious or haughty way; impertinent.
- snoopily — in a prying or snooping manner
- spagyric — pertaining to or resembling alchemy; alchemic.
- sparkily — in a sparky manner
- sparsity — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- speedily — characterized by speed; rapid; swift; fast.
- speyside — the area surrounding the River Spey in E Scotland; famous for whisky distilleries.
- sphygmic — of or relating to the pulse.
- spillway — a passageway through which surplus water escapes from a reservoir, lake, or the like.
- spin-dry — to remove moisture from (laundry) by centrifugal force, as in an automatic washing machine.
- spinachy — characteristic of spinach
- spinnery — a spinning mill.
- spivvery — the characteristic behaviour of a spiv
- splaying — to spread out, expand, or extend.
- spookily — like or befitting a spook or ghost; suggestive of spooks.
- spoonily — in a spoony manner
- spy ring — a group of spies operating covertly together
- spy ship — a ship carrying surveillance equipment, used to secretly observe an enemy state from the sea
- stolypin — Petr Arkadievich. 1863–1911, Russian conservative statesman: prime minister (1906–11). He instituted agrarian reforms but was ruthless in suppressing rebellion: assassinated
- stumpily — in a stumpy manner
- stupidly — lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
- supinely — lying on the back, face or front upward.
- 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
- sympodia — an axis or stem that simulates a simple stem but is made up of the bases of a number of axes that arise successively as branches, one from another, as in the grapevine.
- synapsid — a fossil reptile (of the subclass Synapsida) that exhibits some mammal-like characteristics of the skull
- synapsis — Also called syndesis. Cell Biology. the pairing of homologous chromosomes, one from each parent, during early meiosis.
- synaptic — Also called syndesis. Cell Biology. the pairing of homologous chromosomes, one from each parent, during early meiosis.
- syncopic — Grammar. the contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in the reduction of never to ne'er.
- synopsis — a brief or condensed statement giving a general view of some subject.
- synoptic — pertaining to or constituting a synopsis; affording or taking a general view of the principal parts of a subject.
- 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.
- the yips — (in golf) nervous twitching or tension that destroys concentration and spoils performance
- tidytips — (used with a singular or plural verb) a composite plant, Layia platyglossa, of California, having flower heads with bright yellow, white-tipped rays.
- vespiary — a nest of social wasps.
- whispery — like a whisper: a soft, whispery voice.
- yelpings — Plural form of yelping.
- ypsiloid — having the shape of a 'Y' or ypsilon