9-letter words containing s, t, y, r
- greystone — a grey igneous rock of volcanic origin
- grunitsky — Nicolas, 1913–69, African statesman: president of the Republic of Togo 1963–67.
- gustatory — of or relating to taste or tasting.
- gypsywort — a plant, Lycopus europaeus, that is indigenous to Europe and Asia and has white flowers
- gyrations — Plural form of gyration.
- hairstyle — a style of cutting, arranging, or combing the hair; hairdo; coiffure.
- hircosity — the quality of being like a goat
- historify — to make something part of history or to tell the history of something
- huckstery — the business of a huckster
- hybridist — someone who hybridizes or cross-breeds (animals or plants)
- hybristic — hubris.
- hydranths — Plural form of hydranth.
- hydrastis — goldenseal (def 2).
- hydrocast — a process in which water is collected at various depths in a device with bottles clamped together, providing data on differing water characteristics.
- hydrostat — an electrical device for detecting the presence of water, as from overflow or leakage.
- hygristor — an electronic component the resistance of which varies with humidity
- hygrostat — an instrument for measuring and controlling humidity.
- hysterics — Usually, hysterics. a fit of uncontrollable laughter or weeping; hysteria.
- hysteroid — resembling hysteria.
- insectary — a laboratory for the study of live insects, their life histories, effects on plants, reaction to insecticides, etc.
- isorhythm — a structural feature characteristic of the Ars Nova motet, consisting of a single rhythmic phrase pattern repeated, usually in the tenor, throughout the composition.
- 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.
- keynoters — Plural form of keynoter.
- keystoner — a native or inhabitant of Pennsylvania (used as a nickname).
- 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.
- klystrons — Plural form of klystron.
- kshatriya — a member of the Hindu royal and warrior class above the Vaisyas and below the Brahmans.
- lathyrism — a disorder of humans and domestic animals caused by ingestion of the seeds of some legumes of the genus Lathyrus and marked by spastic paralysis and pain.
- leprosity — the state of being leprous
- lyndhurst — a township in NE New Jersey.
- lyricists — Plural form of lyricist.
- 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.
- macrocyst — a large cyst or spore case, especially the encysted, resting plasmodium of a slime mold.
- magistery — an agency or substance, as in alchemy, to which faculties of healing, transformation, etc., are ascribed.
- martyrise — Alt form martyrize.
- martyrish — a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
- mesentery — the membrane, consisting of a double layer of peritoneum, that invests the intestines, attaching them to the posterior wall of the abdomen, maintaining them in position in the abdominal cavity, and supplying them with blood vessels, nerves, and lymphatics, especially the part of this membrane investing the jejunum and ileum.
- metacryst — a crystal formed by recrystallization of minerals in a metamorphic rock.
- monastery — a house or place of residence occupied by a community of persons, especially monks, living in seclusion under religious vows.
- motorways — Plural form of motorway.
- myristate — (chemistry) any salt or ester of myristic acid.
- myristica — (botany) Any member of the genus Myristica of nutmegs.
- mysterial — (obsolete) mysterious.
- mysteries — Plural form of mystery.
- mysterium — (chemistry, alchemy, now historical) Any of various unknown elements thought to make up existing forms of matter, or a substance seen as an elemental or pure form of something else.
- mystifier — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
- nastygram — (networking) /nas'tee-gram/ 1. A network packet or e-mail message (the latter is also called a letterbomb) that takes advantage of misfeatures or security holes on the target system to do untoward things. 2. Disapproving e-mail, especially from a net.god, pursuant to a violation of netiquette or a complaint about failure to correct some mail- or news-transmission problem. Compare shitogram, mailbomb. 3. A status report from an unhappy, and probably picky, customer. "What did Corporate say in today's nastygram?" 4. [deprecated] An error reply by mail from a daemon; in particular, a bounce message.
- nervosity — the quality of being nervous; nervousness.