9-letter words containing s, y, l, a
- fairishly — in a fairish manner
- false bay — a bay in SW South Africa, near the Cape of Good Hope
- fatuously — With smug stupidity or vacuous silliness; idiotically.
- fiscality — Fiscal policy or considerations.
- flash-fry — to fry something very quickly by placing it in a pan on a very high heat
- flyleaves — Plural form of flyleaf.
- flypapers — Plural form of flypaper.
- gargoyles — Plural form of gargoyle.
- glass eye — artificial eye.
- glass tty — /glas T-T-Y/ or /glas ti'tee/ A terminal that has a display screen but which, because of hardware or software limitations, behaves like a teletype or some other printing terminal, thereby combining the disadvantages of both: like a printing terminal, it can't do fancy display hacks, and like a display terminal, it doesn't produce hard copy. An example is the early "dumb" version of Lear-Siegler ADM 3 (without cursor control). See tube, tty; compare dumb terminal, smart terminal. See "TV Typewriters" for an interesting true story about a glass tty.
- goatishly — In a goatish way.
- graylings — Plural form of grayling.
- grayscale — a scale of achromatic colors having several, usually ten, equal gradations ranging from white to black, used in television and photography.
- grey seal — a greyish species of earless seal, Halichoerus grypus
- greyscale — Alternative spelling of grayscale.
- gym class — physical education lesson
- gymnasial — relating to gymnasium schools
- haemolyse — to break down red blood cells so that haemoglobin is released
- hairstyle — a style of cutting, arranging, or combing the hair; hairdo; coiffure.
- halysites — an extinct genus comprising the chain corals.
- haplessly — In a hapless manner.
- hastately — in a hastate manner
- hawkishly — resembling a hawk, as in appearance or behavior.
- hayfields — Plural form of hayfield.
- hexastyle — having six columns, as a portico or the facade of a classical temple.
- himalayas — the, a mountain range extending about 1500 miles (2400 km) along the border between India and Tibet. Highest peak, Mt. Everest, 29,028 feet (8848 meters).
- hold sway — have influence
- holy wars — [Usenet, but may predate it] flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularised the terms big-endian and little-endian was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace". Other perennial Holy Wars have included Emacs vs. vi, my personal computer vs. everyone else's personal computer, ITS vs. Unix, Unix vs. VMS, BSD Unix vs. USG Unix, C vs. Pascal, C vs. Fortran, etc., ad nauseam. The characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal technical disputes is that in a holy wars most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. See also theology.
- homoplasy — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- husbandly — Having the characteristics of a husband; marital.
- hydraulus — a pipe organ of ancient Greece and Rome using water pressure to maintain the air supply.
- hydrolase — an enzyme that catalyzes hydrolysis.
- hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.
- hymeneals — (plurale tantum) Nuptials.
- hypoblast — the endoderm.
- instantly — immediately; at once.
- insularly — of or relating to an island or islands: insular possessions.
- irascibly — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- ismailiya — a branch of Shiʿism, including in its number the Assassins and the Druses, having an esoteric philosophy and asserting Ismaʿil to be the seventh divinely inspired imam in the succession from Ali.
- isohyetal — a line drawn on a map connecting points having equal rainfall at a certain time or for a stated period.
- isopycnal — Also, isopycnal [ahy-suh-pik-nl] /ˌaɪ səˈpɪk nl/ (Show IPA). having the same density.
- jawlensky — Alexej von [ah-le-ksey fuh n] /ˌɑ lɛˈkseɪ fən/ (Show IPA), 1864?–1941, German painter, born in Russia.
- jealously — feeling resentment against someone because of that person's rivalry, success, or advantages (often followed by of): He was jealous of his rich brother.
- jyvaskyla — a city in S central Finland.
- katalyses — catalysis.
- katalysis — catalysis.
- knavishly — In a knavish manner.
- labor spy — an employee who is used by management to spy on union activities.
- lace stay — that part of an Oxford shoe into which eyelets and laces are inserted.