9-letter words containing s, a, t, y
- kshatriya — a member of the Hindu royal and warrior class above the Vaisyas and below the Brahmans.
- lace stay — that part of an Oxford shoe into which eyelets and laces are inserted.
- ladysmith — a city in W Natal, in the E Republic of South Africa: besieged by Boers 1889–1900.
- lastingly — continuing or enduring a long time; permanent; durable: a lasting friendship.
- latchkeys — Plural form of latchkey.
- latensify — to increase the developability of (the latent image on a film or plate) after exposure.
- lathyrism — a disorder of humans and domestic animals caused by ingestion of the seeds of some legumes of the genus Lathyrus and marked by spastic paralysis and pain.
- lay waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- layabouts — Plural form of layabout.
- lazy list — A list which is built using a non-strict constructor. Any head or tail of the list may be an unevaluated closure. Also known as streams since they may be used to carry a sequence of values from the output of one function to an input of another. See also Lazy evaluation.
- leastways — at least; at any rate; leastwise.
- loyalists — Plural form of loyalist.
- loyalties — Plural form of loyalty.
- macrocyst — a large cyst or spore case, especially the encysted, resting plasmodium of a slime mold.
- magistery — an agency or substance, as in alchemy, to which faculties of healing, transformation, etc., are ascribed.
- mainstays — Plural form of mainstay.
- mantyhose — a one-piece clinging garment covering the body from the waist to the feet, worn by men
- manyattas — Plural form of manyatta.
- martyrise — Alt form martyrize.
- martyrish — a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
- massivity — consisting of or forming a large mass; bulky and heavy: massive columns.
- mastocyte — Mast cell.
- mastology — Mammalogy.
- mastopexy — fixation of a pendulous breast.
- mateyness — The state of being matey, camaraderie, chumminess.
- matsuyama — a seaport on NW Shikoku, in SW Japan.
- megabytes — Plural form of megabyte.
- metacryst — a crystal formed by recrystallization of minerals in a metamorphic rock.
- methylase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyse methylation
- monastery — a house or place of residence occupied by a community of persons, especially monks, living in seclusion under religious vows.
- motorways — Plural form of motorway.
- myomatous — a tumor composed of muscular tissue.
- myostatin — (protein) A protein that acts as an inhibitor to the growth of muscle tissue.
- myristate — (chemistry) any salt or ester of myristic acid.
- myristica — (botany) Any member of the genus Myristica of nutmegs.
- mystagogy — someone who instructs others before initiation into religious mysteries or before participation in the sacraments.
- mysterial — (obsolete) mysterious.
- nastygram — (networking) /nas'tee-gram/ 1. A network packet or e-mail message (the latter is also called a letterbomb) that takes advantage of misfeatures or security holes on the target system to do untoward things. 2. Disapproving e-mail, especially from a net.god, pursuant to a violation of netiquette or a complaint about failure to correct some mail- or news-transmission problem. Compare shitogram, mailbomb. 3. A status report from an unhappy, and probably picky, customer. "What did Corporate say in today's nastygram?" 4. [deprecated] An error reply by mail from a daemon; in particular, a bounce message.
- navy list — (in Britain) an official list of all serving commissioned officers of the Royal Navy and reserve officers liable for recall
- neoplasty — the surgical formation of new tissue structures or repair of damaged structures
- nonsteady — not steady or stable; unsteady
- nyctalops — a person affected by nyctalopia
- nystagmic — Exhibiting or pertaining to nystagmus (involuntary eye movement).
- nystagmus — a congenital or acquired persistent, rapid, involuntary, and oscillatory movement of the eyeball, usually from side to side.
- obstinacy — the quality or state of being obstinate; stubbornness.
- octastyle — having eight columns in the front, as a temple or portico.
- oscitancy — yawning, as with drowsiness; gaping.
- otoplasty — plastic surgery of the external ear.
- out-years — the fiscal year after a year covered by a budget; any year beyond the budget year for which projections of spending are made.
- outstayed — Simple past tense and past participle of outstay.