9-letter words containing s, y, n
- berdyansk — a city in S Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.
- bony fish — any fish of the class Osteichthyes, including most of the extant species, having a skeleton of bone rather than cartilage
- brimstony — of, relating to or resembling brimstone; sulphurous
- businessy — of, relating to, typical of, or suitable for the world of commercial or industrial business
- buttinsky — a busybody
- by a nose — by the length of the animal's nose in horse racing, etc.
- by design — If something happens or is done by design, someone does it deliberately, rather than by accident.
- by inches — a unit of length, 1/12 (0.0833) foot, equivalent to 2.54 centimeters.
- bypassing — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- bystander — A bystander is a person who is present when something happens and who sees it but does not take part in it.
- cageyness — the quality of being cagey
- candy-ass — a timid or cowardly person; wimp
- carnosity — an abnormal fleshy protrusion growing on any part of the body
- ceylonese — of or relating to Ceylon or its inhabitants
- chomskyan — of or relating to Noam Chomsky or his linguistic theories, especially to transformational-generative grammar.
- claystone — a compact very fine-grained rock consisting of consolidated clay particles
- cnidocyst — a nematocyst.
- coenzymes — Plural form of coenzyme.
- company's — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- concisely — expressing or covering much in few words; brief in form but comprehensive in scope; succinct; terse: a concise explanation of the company's retirement plan.
- constancy — Constancy is the quality of staying the same even though other things change.
- contrasty — (of a photograph or subject) having sharp gradations in tone, esp between light and dark areas
- conveyers — Plural form of conveyer.
- conveyors — Plural form of conveyor.
- cosmogeny — (dated) cosmogony.
- cosmogony — the study of the origin and development of the universe or of a particular system in the universe, such as the solar system
- crayonist — (dated) An artist who uses crayons.
- crinosity — Hairiness.
- cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
- curtsying — Present participle of curtsey.
- cyclamens — Plural form of cyclamen.
- cylinders — Plural form of cylinder.
- cynicisms — Plural form of cynicism.
- cynosures — Plural form of cynosure.
- cyphonism — An ancient form of punishment involving a sort of wooden pillory by which the victim's neck was bent or weighed downward.
- cystidean — any one of the order of fossil echinoderms Cystidea
- cytokines — Plural form of cytokine.
- cytolysin — a substance that can partially or completely destroy animal cells
- dashingly — In a dashing manner.
- day nurse — a nurse who is on duty during the daytime
- dayspring — the dawn
- defensory — (archaic) Tending to defend; defensive.
- dentistry — Dentistry is the work done by a dentist.
- descrying — Present participle of descry.
- dhrystone — (benchmark) A short synthetic benchmark program by Reinhold Weicker <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, intended to be representative of system (integer) programming. It is available in ADA, Pascal and C. The current version is Dhrystone 2.1. The author says, "Relying on MIPS V1.1 (the result of V1.1) numbers can be hazardous to your professional health." Due to its small size, the memory system outside the cache is not tested. Compilers can too easily optimise for Dhrystone. String operations are somewhat over-represented.
- dionysiac — of or relating to the Dionysia or to Dionysus; Bacchic.
- dionysian — of, relating to, or honoring Dionysus or Bacchus.
- dionysius — ("the Elder") 431?–367 b.c, Greek soldier: tyrant of Syracuse 405–367.
- dismaying — Present participle of dismay.
- dissogeny — the condition in ctenophores in which an individual has two periods of sexual maturity, one in the larval and one in the adult stage.