7-letter words containing p, y
- sparkly — tending to sparkle; animated; lively: a row of sparkly cheerleaders.
- spassky — Boris (Vasilyevich) [bawr-is vuh-seel-yuh-vich,, bohr-,, bor-;; Russian buh-ryees vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /ˈbɔr ɪs vəˈsil yə vɪtʃ,, ˈboʊr-,, ˈbɒr-;; Russian bʌˈryis vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), born 1937, Russian chess player.
- specify — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- spicery — spice.
- spidery — like a spider or a spider's web.
- spikery — High-Church Anglicanism
- spindly — long or tall, thin, and usually frail: The colt wobbled on its spindly legs.
- spinney — a small wood or thicket.
- spirity — spirited
- splashy — making a splash or splashes.
- splayed — to spread out, expand, or extend.
- spleeny — abundant in or displaying spleen.
- splurgy — ostentatious
- spondyl — a vertebra or something like a vertebra
- spooney — spoony.
- sprawly — tending to sprawl; straggly: The colt's legs were long and sprawly.
- sprayer — device that sprays a liquid
- sprayey — like, spattered with, or sending out spray
- spriggy — possessing sprigs or small branches.
- springy — characterized by spring or elasticity; flexible; resilient: He walks with a springy step.
- spulyie — to plunder
- spurrey — spurry.
- spurway — a path used by horse riders
- spy out — a person employed by a government to obtain secret information or intelligence about another, usually hostile, country, especially with reference to military or naval affairs.
- spyhole — peephole in a door, etc.
- spyware — Computers. software that is installed surreptitiously and gathers information about an Internet user's browsing habits, intercepts the user's personal data, etc., transmitting this information to a third party: a parent's use of spyware to monitor a child's online activities.
- stay up — not go to bed
- steeply — having an almost vertical slope or pitch, or a relatively high gradient, as a hill, an ascent, stairs, etc.
- stepney — a former borough of Greater London, England, now part of Tower Hamlets.
- stop by — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- stop-by — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- strappy — A strappy dress or top has thin shoulder straps.
- stroppy — bad-tempered or hostile; quick to take offense.
- stupefy — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- stylops — any insect of the order Strepsiptera, including the genus Stylops, living as a parasite in other insects, esp bees and wasps: the females remain in the body of the host but the males move between hosts
- stypsis — the employment or application of styptics.
- styptic — serving to contract organic tissue; astringent; binding.
- subtype — a subordinate type.
- sylphic — a slender, graceful woman or girl.
- sylphid — a little or young sylph.
- symptom — any phenomenon or circumstance accompanying something and serving as evidence of it.
- synapse — a region where nerve impulses are transmitted and received, encompassing the axon terminal of a neuron that releases neurotransmitters in response to an impulse, an extremely small gap across which the neurotransmitters travel, and the adjacent membrane of an axon, dendrite, or muscle or gland cell with the appropriate receptor molecules for picking up the neurotransmitters.
- synapte — a litany.
- syncarp — an aggregate fruit.
- syncope — Grammar. the contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in the reduction of never to ne'er.
- syntype — a type specimen other than the holotype used in the description of a species.
- syrphid — syrphid fly.
- syslisp — System language used in the implementation of Portable Standard Lisp. Mentioned in "The Evolution of Lisp", G.L. Steele et al, SIGPLAN Notices 28(3):231-270 (Mar 1993).
- sysplex — (operating system) An IBM term for communicating MVS systems. See also "Parallel Sysplex".
- tapstry — a tap-room in a public house