9-letter words containing s, c, r, y
- scraggily — lean or thin; scrawny.
- scrape by — If someone scrapes by, they earn just enough money to live on with difficulty.
- scrapyard — A scrapyard is a place where old machines such as cars or ships are destroyed and where useful parts are saved.
- screw eye — a screw having a ring-shaped head.
- screw fly — screwworm fly.
- screw you — expressing contempt
- scriptory — of or relating to writing
- scrub jay — a crestless jay, Aphelocoma coerulescens, of the western and southern U.S. and Mexico, having blue and grayish plumage.
- scrubbily — in a scrubby or messy manner
- scruffily — in an unkempt or shabby fashion
- scurrying — to go or move quickly or in haste.
- secondary — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- secretary — a person, usually an official, who is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs of an organization, company, association, etc.: the secretary of the Linguistic Society of America.
- secretory — pertaining to secretion.
- secularly — of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests.
- sergeancy — the position or rank of a sergeant
- serictery — a silk gland.
- serotypic — of or relating to a serotype
- sincerely — free of deceit, hypocrisy, or falseness; earnest: a sincere apology.
- sincerity — freedom from deceit, hypocrisy, or duplicity; probity in intention or in communicating; earnestness.
- sky cover — the amount of the sky that is covered by clouds, fog, haze, smoke, or the like, usually expressed in tenths of the total sky.
- skyrocket — a rocket firework that ascends into the air and explodes at a height, usually in a brilliant array of sparks of one or more colors.
- sporocyst — a walled body resulting from the multiple division of a sporozoan, which produces one or more sporozoites.
- sporocyte — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- spray can — a small can whose contents are in aerosol form. Compare aerosol bomb.
- stitchery — needlework.
- stockyard — an enclosure with pens, sheds, etc., connected with a slaughterhouse, railroad, market, etc., for the temporary housing of cattle, sheep, swine, or horses.
- story arc — a continuing storyline in a television series that gradually unfolds over several episodes
- stridency — making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident insects; strident hinges.
- strychnia — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.
- strychnic — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.
- supercity — a large, heavily populated urban area that includes several cities; megalopolis.
- supremacy — the state of being supreme.
- surgeoncy — the office, duties, or position of a surgeon, esp in the army or navy
- surrogacy — the state of being a surrogate or surrogate mother.
- sybaritic — (usually lowercase) pertaining to or characteristic of a sybarite; characterized by or loving luxury or sensuous pleasure: to wallow in sybaritic splendor.
- symmetric — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- sympatric — originating in or occupying the same geographical area.
- synchrony — simultaneous occurrence; synchronism.
- syncretic — the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion.
- syncrisis — the comparison of opposites.
- syndromic — Pathology, Psychiatry. a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease, or the like.
- synsacrum — a dorsal ridge of bone in the pelvic region of birds, formed by the fusion of certain thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and caudal vertebrae.
- theocrasy — a mixture of religious forms and deities by worshipers.
- xenocryst — a rock or crystal engulfed by magma and retained as an inclusion in the resulting igneous rock.
- xerochasy — the release of seeds when the seed pods dry out
- yardstick — a stick a yard long, commonly marked with subdivisions, used for measuring.