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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.
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