8-letter words containing s, y, g
- stingily — reluctant to give or spend; not generous; niggardly; penurious: He's a stingy old miser.
- stingray — any of the rays, especially of the family Dasyatidae, having a long, flexible tail armed near the base with a strong, serrated bony spine with which they can inflict painful wounds.
- straggly — straggling; rambling.
- strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
- straying — to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
- strongly — with great strength or force: wind blowing strongly from the west.
- studying — application of the mind to the acquisition of knowledge, as by reading, investigation, or reflection: long hours of study.
- stymying — Golf. (on a putting green) an instance of a ball's lying on a direct line between the cup and the ball of an opponent about to putt.
- swing by — Aerospace. a trajectory that uses the gravitational field of one celestial body to alter the course of a spacecraft destined for another body.
- synalgia — referred pain.
- synalgic — referred pain.
- synching — synchronization: The picture and the soundtrack were out of sync.
- synergic — the interaction of elements that when combined produce a total effect that is greater than the sum of the individual elements, contributions, etc.; synergism.
- synergid — one of two small cells that lie inside the embryo sac of a flowering plant and nourish the ovum.
- syngraft — a tissue or organ transplanted from one member of a species to another, genetically identical member of the species, as a kidney transplanted from one identical twin to the other.
- syngraph — a document signed by all parties
- syntagma — an element that enters into a syntagmatic relationship.
- syringes — a small device consisting of a glass, metal, or hard rubber tube, narrowed at its outlet, and fitted with either a piston or a rubber bulb for drawing in a quantity of fluid or for ejecting fluid in a stream, for cleaning wounds, injecting fluids into the body, etc.
- trysting — an appointment to meet at a certain time and place, especially one made somewhat secretly by lovers.
- wise guy — Informal. a cocksure, conceited, and often insolent person; smart aleck: He has a reputation for being a wise guy.
- yangshao — of or designating a Neolithic culture of N China c5000–3000 b.c., characterized by dwellings with sunken floors, domestication of the pig, and a fine handmade pottery painted mainly in geometric designs of spirals and circles.
- yardages — Plural form of yardage.
- yelpings — Plural form of yelping.
- ygdrasil — the great ash tree whose roots and branches hold together the universe
- yinglish — English characterized by a large number of Yiddish words and expressions.
- youngers — Plural form of younger.
- youngest — being in the first or early stage of life or growth; youthful; not old: a young woman.
- youngish — somewhat young.
- younguns — a young one; child.
- yugoslav — a native or inhabitant of the former country of Yugoslavia.
- zygosity — the characterization of an individual's hereditary traits in terms of gene pairing in the zygote from which it developed. Compare homozygous, heterozygous.
- zymogens — Plural form of zymogen.