8-letter words containing p, y
- sighyper — Special Interest Group on Hypertext and Multimedia of the SGML Users' Group.
- 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.
- skyscape — a section or portion of the sky, usually extensive and often including part of the horizon, that may be seen from a single viewpoint.
- 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
- sparsely — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- sparsity — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- speedily — characterized by speed; rapid; swift; fast.
- speedway — a town in central Indiana.
- spermary — an organ in which spermatozoa are generated; testis.
- speyside — the area surrounding the River Spey in E Scotland; famous for whisky distilleries.
- sphygmic — of or relating to the pulse.
- sphygmo- — indicating the pulse
- sphygmus — 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.
- splotchy — marked or covered with splotches.
- spoofery — good-humored mockery or teasing.
- spookery — matters relating to spies and espionage
- spookily — like or befitting a spook or ghost; suggestive of spooks.
- spoonily — in a spoony manner
- sprauncy — smart or showy in appearance
- spray-on — applied by means of an aerosol spray
- spryness — active; nimble; agile; energetic; brisk.
- spunyarn — small stuff made from rope yarns twisted together
- sputtery — tending to sputter
- 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
- spyglass — a small telescope.
- spyplane — a military aeroplane used to spy on an enemy
- stay put — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- 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.
- sulphury — of the nature of, characteristic of or resembling sulphur
- superbly — admirably fine or excellent; extremely good: a superb performance.
- superspy — a highly accomplished spy