9-letter words containing s, t, e, y
- homestyle — simple and unpretentious, evoking the comforts of home: homestyle cooking; home-style hospitality.
- honeypots — Plural form of honeypot.
- hostilely — of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy: a hostile nation.
- huckstery — the business of a huckster
- hygienist — an expert in hygiene.
- hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.
- hypnotise — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypostome — any of several parts or organs of the mouth, as the labrum of a crustacean.
- hypostyle — having many columns carrying the roof or ceiling: a hypostyle hall.
- hysterics — Usually, hysterics. a fit of uncontrollable laughter or weeping; hysteria.
- hysteroid — resembling hysteria.
- ileostomy — the construction of an artificial opening from the ileum through the abdominal wall, permitting drainage of the contents of the small intestine.
- immensity — vastness; enormous extent: the immensity of the Roman empire.
- immodesty — not modest in conduct, utterance, etc.; indecent; shameless.
- insatiety — the state of being insatiate; insatiability
- insectary — a laboratory for the study of live insects, their life histories, effects on plants, reaction to insecticides, etc.
- intensely — existing or occurring in a high or extreme degree: intense heat.
- intensify — to make intense or more intense.
- intensity — the quality or condition of being intense.
- intestacy — the state or fact of being intestate at death.
- isohyetal — a line drawn on a map connecting points having equal rainfall at a certain time or for a stated period.
- isopentyl — isoamyl.
- jestingly — Said, written or done in jest.
- k&r style — (programming) An ugly, obsolete, deprecated source code indent style that looks like this: if (cond) { } The basic indent is eight spaces (or one tab) per level; less commonly four. It is named after Kernighan & Ritchie because the examples in K&R are formatted this way. It is also called "kernel style" (because the Unix kernel was written in it) or Egyptian brackets. This style was popular when programmers worked on small displays, or when printing code on paper, becuase it saves vertical space. It should be avoided because the opening brace is easy to miss at the end of a long condition in an "if" or "while" statement and it makes it hard to pair up braces.
- katalyses — catalysis.
- ketolysis — the breaking down of ketones.
- key stage — any one of four broad age-group divisions (5–7; 7–11; 11–14; 14–16) to which each level of the National Curriculum applies
- keynoters — Plural form of keynoter.
- keystoner — a native or inhabitant of Pennsylvania (used as a nickname).
- keystones — Plural form of keystone.
- keystream — (cryptography) A stream of random or pseudorandom characters that are combined with the plaintext to produce a ciphertext.
- keystroke — one stroke of any key on a machine operated by a keyboard, as a typewriter, computer terminal, or Linotype: I can do 3000 keystrokes an hour.
- kilobytes — Plural form of kilobyte.
- lace stay — that part of an Oxford shoe into which eyelets and laces are inserted.
- latchkeys — Plural form of latchkey.
- latensify — to increase the developability of (the latent image on a film or plate) after exposure.
- lay waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- leastways — at least; at any rate; leastwise.
- leprosity — the state of being leprous
- lifestyle — the habits, attitudes, tastes, moral standards, economic level, etc., that together constitute the mode of living of an individual or group.
- logotypes — Plural form of logotype.
- loyalties — Plural form of loyalty.
- lysimeter — an instrument for determining the amount of water-soluble matter in soil.
- lyubertsy — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, SE of Moscow.
- magistery — an agency or substance, as in alchemy, to which faculties of healing, transformation, etc., are ascribed.
- mantyhose — a one-piece clinging garment covering the body from the waist to the feet, worn by men
- martyrise — Alt form martyrize.
- mastocyte — Mast cell.
- mastopexy — fixation of a pendulous breast.
- mateyness — The state of being matey, camaraderie, chumminess.