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8-letter words containing s, h, y

  • smothery — stifling; close: a smothery atmosphere.
  • soothsay — to foretell events; predict.
  • sorryish — rather sorry
  • sphygmic — of or relating to the pulse.
  • sphygmo- — indicating the pulse
  • sphygmus — the pulse.
  • spinachy — characteristic of spinach
  • splotchy — marked or covered with splotches.
  • spy ship — a ship carrying surveillance equipment, used to secretly observe an enemy state from the sea
  • squooshy — soft and squashy
  • stealthy — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
  • stomachy — paunchy; having a prominent stomach.
  • strachey — (Giles) Lytton [jahylz lit-n] /dʒaɪlz ˈlɪt n/ (Show IPA), 1880–1932, English biographer and literary critic.
  • stretchy — having a tendency to stretch, especially excessively or unduly.
  • subhyoid — Also, hyoidal, hyoidean. noting or pertaining to a U -shaped bone at the root of the tongue in humans, or a corresponding bone or collection of bones in animals.
  • sulphury — of the nature of, characteristic of or resembling sulphur
  • sunshiny — the shining of the sun; direct light of the sun.
  • symbmath — (mathematics, tool)   A small symbolic mathematics package for MS-DOS which can learn new facts.
  • sympathy — harmony of or agreement in feeling, as between persons or on the part of one person with respect to another.
  • symphile — an insect or other organism that lives in the nests of social insects, esp ants and termites, and is fed and reared by the inmates
  • symphony — Music. an elaborate instrumental composition in three or more movements, similar in form to a sonata but written for an orchestra and usually of far grander proportions and more varied elements. an instrumental passage occurring in a vocal composition, or between vocal movements in a composition. an instrumental piece, often in several movements, forming the overture to an opera or the like.
  • synanthy — an abnormal fusion of two or more flowers
  • synaphea — a continuity of rhythm throughout a poem
  • synarchy — joint rule
  • synching — synchronization: The picture and the soundtrack were out of sync.
  • synchro- — indicating synchronization
  • synechia — any adhesion of parts of the body, as of the iris to the cornea.
  • syngraph — a document signed by all parties
  • synthase — an enzyme that catalyses a process of synthesis
  • synthpop — popular music played with synthesizers and having light upbeat melodies and lyrics.
  • syphilis — a chronic infectious disease, caused by a spirochete, Treponema pallidum, usually venereal in origin but often congenital, and affecting almost any organ or tissue in the body, especially the genitals, skin, mucous membranes, aorta, brain, liver, bones, and nerves.
  • syphoned — 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.
  • the yeas — the votes in favour of something
  • the yips — (in golf) nervous twitching or tension that destroys concentration and spoils performance
  • thessaly — a region in E Greece: a former division of ancient Greece. 5208 sq. mi. (14,490 sq. km).
  • thisaway — this way; in this direction.
  • thursday — the fifth day of the week, following Wednesday. Abbreviation: Th., Thur., Thurs.
  • thyestes — the brother of Atreus who unknowingly ate the flesh of his own sons when served to him by Atreus.
  • thymosin — a hormone, produced by the thymus gland, that promotes the development of T cells from stem cells.
  • thyrosis — any condition resulting from abnormal functioning of the thyroid gland.
  • thyrsoid — having somewhat the form of a thyrsus.
  • tonishly — in a stylish or fashionable manner
  • toyishly — in a toyish or playful manner
  • trophesy — a condition caused by a disorder of the nerves relating to nutrition
  • typhoeus — the son of Gaea and Tartarus who had a hundred dragon heads, which spurted fire, and a bellowing many-tongued voice. He created the whirlwinds and fought with Zeus before the god hurled him beneath Mount Etna
  • tyrrheus — a shepherd. The killing of his tame stag by Ascanius was a cause of the war between Aeneas' Trojans and the people of Latium.
  • unflashy — not flashy
  • varnishy — glossy; like varnish
  • volzhsky — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, near Volgograd on the Volga River.
  • washdays — Plural form of washday.
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