9-letter words containing s, h, y
- short-day — requiring a short photoperiod.
- show copy — a positive print of a film for use at an important presentation such as a premiere
- show pony — a person who tries to be the centre of attention; show-off
- showbizzy — characteristic of showbiz
- showmanly — characteristic of a showman
- shrubbery — a planting of shrubs: He hit the croquet ball into the shrubbery.
- shut away — keep confined
- sickishly — in a sickish manner
- sighingly — accompanied by sighing
- sisyphean — of or relating to Sisyphus.
- skanky-ho — a promiscuous woman
- slaphappy — severely befuddled; punch-drunk: a slaphappy boxer.
- slavishly — of or befitting a slave: slavish subjection.
- sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
- sottishly — in a sottish manner
- sourishly — in a sourish manner
- southbury — a town in S Connecticut.
- southerly — a wind that blows from the south.
- speechify — to make a speech or speeches; harangue.
- speechway — a pattern, style, or feature of spoken language shared by the people of a particular group or area.
- sphygmoid — resembling the pulse; pulselike.
- sprightly — animated or vivacious; lively.
- staphylo- — uvula
- stathenry — the electrostatic unit of inductance, equivalent to 8.9876 × 10 11 henries and equal to the inductance of a circuit in which an electromotive force of one statvolt is produced by a current in the circuit which varies at the rate of one statampere per second.
- staunchly — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- stay with — to spend some time in a place, in a situation, with a person or group, etc.: He stayed in the army for ten years.
- stitchery — needlework.
- strayhorn — William ("Billy") 1915–67, U.S. jazz pianist and composer: collaborator with Duke Ellington.
- 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.
- subahdary — the position or office of subadar
- subphylum — a category of related classes within a phylum.
- sulphuryl — of, consisting of, or containing the divalent group, =SO2
- superhype — exaggerated hype
- sycophant — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sylphlike — a slender, graceful woman or girl.
- symmachus — Saint, died a.d. 514, pope 498–514.
- sympathin — a substance released at certain sympathetic nerve endings: thought to be identical with adrenaline
- symphonia — any of various medieval musical instruments, as the hurdy-gurdy.
- symphonic — Music. of, for, pertaining to, or having the character of a symphony or symphony orchestra.
- symphysis — the growing together, or the fixed or nearly fixed union, of bones, as that of the two halves of the lower jaw in humans or of the pubic bones in the anterior part of the pelvic girdle.
- synalepha — the blending of two successive vowels into one, especially the coalescence of a vowel at the end of one word with a vowel at the beginning of the next.
- synanthic — relating to synanthy
- synchrony — simultaneous occurrence; synchronism.
- synchysis — an arrangement of words with muddled meaning
- synechism — a doctrine of philosophical thinking stressing the importance of the idea of continuity: named and advocated by C. S. Peirce.
- synth-pop — a type of pop music in which synthesizers are used to create the dominant sound
- syntheses — the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity (opposed to analysis, ) the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements.
- synthesis — the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity (opposed to analysis, ) the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements.
- synthetic — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).