7-letter words containing y, a, s, i
- slaying — A slaying is a murder.
- slipway — (in a shipyard) the area sloping toward the water, on which the ways are located.
- slydial — a telephone service that enables the caller to ring a person’s telephone number and leave a voice message on their answering machine but which eliminates the possibility of the caller having to have an unwanted conversation with that person
- sokaiya — (in Japan) an extortionist
- soyinka — Wole [woh-ley] /ˈwoʊ leɪ/ (Show IPA), born 1934, Nigerian playwright, novelist, and poet: Nobel prize 1986.
- staidly — of settled or sedate character; not flighty or capricious.
- stay in — remain at home
- staying — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
- stygian — of or relating to the river Styx or to Hades.
- suavity — a suave or smoothly agreeable quality.
- suiyuan — a former province in N China: now part of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region
- sybaris — an ancient Greek city in S Italy: noted for its wealth and luxury; destroyed 510 b.c.
- syllabi — a plural of syllabus.
- synaxis — an assembly for religious worship, especially for the celebration of the Eucharist.
- synovia — a lubricating fluid resembling the white of an egg, secreted by certain membranes, as those of the joints.
- synthia — the informal name for a self-replicating synthetic bacterium, created in 2010 from a version of the Mycoplasma mycoides genome and implanted into a DNA-free Mycoplasma capricolum bacterial shell. It is the world’s first artificial life form
- syrians — of or relating to Syria or its inhabitants.
- syringa — mock orange (def 1).
- tastily — good-tasting; savory: a tasty canapé.
- tayside — a region in E Scotland. 1100 sq. mi. (2849 sq. km).
- trysail — a triangular or quadrilateral sail having its luff hooped or otherwise bent to a mast, used for lying to or keeping a vessel headed into the wind; spencer.
- varsity — any first-string team, especially in sports, that represents a school, college, university, or the like: He is on the varsity in tennis and in debating.
- vastity — immensity; vastness.
- visayan — one of a Malay people, the most numerous indigenous people of the Philippines.
- visayas — group of islands in the central Philippines, including Cebu, Leyte, Negros, Panay, Samar, & many smaller islands
- wayside — the side of the way; land immediately adjacent to a road, highway, path, etc.; roadside.
- wysiayg — What You See Is All You Get
- y- axis — a reference axis, usually vertical, of a graph or two- or three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system along which the y-coordinate is measured
- yabbies — Plural form of yabby.
- yahwism — the worship of Yahweh or the religious system based on such worship.
- yahwist — a writer of the earliest major source of the Hexateuch, in which God is characteristically referred to as Yahweh rather than Elohim.
- yarrish — (UK dialectal) Having a rough, dry taste.
- yautias — Plural form of yautia.
- yeshiva — an Orthodox Jewish school for the religious and secular education of children of elementary school age.
- zanyish — fairly or quite zany
- zanyism — (archaic) clownishness; buffoonery.