6-letter words containing s, h, y
- syphon — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
- tethys — Classical Mythology. a Titan, a daughter of Uranus and Gaea, the wife of Oceanus and mother of the Oceanids and river gods.
- thusly — thus.
- thymus — a ductless, butterfly-shaped gland lying at the base of the neck, formed mostly of lymphatic tissue and aiding in the production of T cells of the immune system: after puberty, the lymphatic tissue gradually degenerates.
- thyrse — a compact branching inflorescence, as of the lilac, in which the main axis is indeterminate and the lateral axes are determinate.
- toyish — resembling a toy
- trashy — of the nature of trash; inferior in quality; rubbishy; useless or worthless.
- tykish — of, relating to, or characteristic of a tyke
- typhus — an acute, infectious disease caused by several species of Rickettsia, transmitted by lice and fleas, and characterized by acute prostration, headache, and a peculiar eruption of reddish spots on the body.
- whimsy — capricious humor or disposition; extravagant, fanciful, or excessively playful expression: a play with lots of whimsy.
- whisky — an alcoholic liquor distilled from a fermented mash of grain, as barley, rye, or corn, and usually containing from 43 to 50 percent alcohol.
- whispy — Wispy.
- whoosy — whoosis.
- wishly — (obsolete, dialect) According to desire.
- yachts — Plural form of yacht.
- yahoos — (in Swift's Gulliver's Travels) one of a race of brutes, having the form and all the vices of humans, who are subject to the Houyhnhnms.
- yaksha — (Buddhism) a spirit that watches over the treasures hidden in the earth and tree roots.
- youths — the condition of being young.