9-letter words containing s, o, p, y
- sky pilot — a member of the clergy, especially a chaplain of the armed forces.
- sky-pilot — a member of the clergy, especially a chaplain of the armed forces.
- soapberry — the fruit of any of certain tropical or subtropical trees of the genus Sapindus, especially S. saponaria, used as a substitute for soap.
- soft copy — computer output displayed on the screen of a VDT (opposed to hard copy).
- sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
- spar buoy — a buoy resembling a vertical log
- sphygmoid — resembling the pulse; pulselike.
- spinosity — the condition of being spinose
- spirogyra — a widely distributed filamentous freshwater green alga of the genus Spirogyra.
- splayfoot — a broad, flat foot, especially one turned outward.
- splodgily — in a splodgy manner
- spondylo- — vertebra
- spongefly — any of several insects of the family Sisyridae, the aquatic larvae of which feed on freshwater sponges.
- spoonways — like spoons, esp by fitting together in the way that spoons do
- 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.
- sporogeny — the process of spore formation in plants and animals
- sporogony — (in certain sporozoans) the multiple fission of an encysted zygote or oocyte, resulting in the formation of sporozoites.
- staphylo- — uvula
- stenotype — a keyboard machine resembling a typewriter, used in a system of phonetic shorthand.
- stenotypy — shorthand in which alphabetic letters or types are used to produce shortened forms of words or groups of words.
- stony pit — a disease of pears, caused by a virus and characterized by deformed, pitted fruit.
- stylopize — (of a stylops) to parasitize (a host)
- swordplay — the action or technique of wielding a sword; fencing.
- sycophant — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sympatico — simpatico
- 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.
- sympodium — an axis or stem that simulates a simple stem but is made up of the bases of a number of axes that arise successively as branches, one from another, as in the grapevine.
- symposiac — of, relating to, or suitable for a symposium.
- symposium — a meeting or conference for the discussion of some subject, especially a meeting at which several speakers talk on or discuss a topic before an audience.
- symptosis — local or general atrophy.
- symptotic — relating to symptosis
- syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
- synopsize — to make a synopsis of; summarize.
- synoptist — one of the authors (Matthew, Mark, or Luke) of the synoptic Gospels.
- synth-pop — a type of pop music in which synthesizers are used to create the dominant sound
- syphiloid — resembling syphilis.
- syphiloma — a tumour or gumma caused by infection with syphilis
- syphoning — 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.
- tallyshop — a store specializing in selling merchandise on the hire-purchase system.
- telescopy — the use of the telescope.
- theosophy — any of various forms of philosophical or religious thought based on a mystical insight into the divine nature.
- top story — headline news item
- typhlosis — blindness.
- waypoints — Plural form of waypoint.
- zephyrous — of, relating to, or like a zephyr; full of or containing light breezes.
- zoophytes — Plural form of zoophyte.
- zooplasty — the transplantation of living tissue to the human body from an animal of another species.
- zygosperm — (botany) A spore formed by the union of the contents of two similar cells, either of the same or of distinct individual plants. Zygosperms are found in certain orders of alg\u00e6 and fungi.