7-letter words containing y, e, i, s
- sylvite — a common mineral, potassium chloride, KCl, colorless to milky-white or red, occurring in crystals, usually cubes, and masses with cubic cleavage, bitter in taste: the most important source of potassium.
- synesis — a construction in which an expected grammatical agreement in form is replaced by an agreement in meaning, as in The crowd rose to their feet, where a plural pronoun is used to refer to a singular noun.
- syringe — 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.
- sysvile — Missed'em-five
- tayside — a region in E Scotland. 1100 sq. mi. (2849 sq. km).
- tensity — the state of being tense; tenseness.
- testify — to bear witness; give or afford evidence.
- testily — irritably impatient; touchy.
- tissuey — like tissue
- versify — to relate, describe, or treat (something) in verse.
- wayside — the side of the way; land immediately adjacent to a road, highway, path, etc.; roadside.
- wheyish — rather like whey: a mottled, wheyish complexion.
- whimsey — whimsy.
- whiskey — an alcoholic liquor distilled from a fermented mash of grain, as barley, rye, or corn, and usually containing from 43 to 50 percent alcohol.
- wiseguy — Alternative spelling of wise guy.
- woylies — Plural form of woylie.
- yabbies — Plural form of yabby.
- yeltsin — Boris Nikolayevich [bawr-is nik-uh-lahy-uh-vich,, bohr‐,, bor‐;; Russian buh-ryes nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /ˈbɔr ɪs ˌnɪk əˈlaɪ ə vɪtʃ,, ˈboʊr‐,, ˈbɒr‐;; Russian bʌˈryɛs nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1931–2007, president of the Russian Federation 1991–99.
- yenisei — a river in the Russian Federation in Asia, flowing N from the Sayan Mountains to the Kara Sea. 2566 miles (4080 km) long.
- yerkish — an experimental language for communicating with apes, using symbols consisting of geometric shapes.
- yesenin — Sergey Aleksandrovich [syir-gyey uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /syɪrˈgyeɪ ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1925, Russian poet.
- yeshiva — an Orthodox Jewish school for the religious and secular education of children of elementary school age.
- yezidis — a member of a religious sect living mostly in the Kurdish areas of northern Iraq, Syria, Armenia, and Georgia, whose beliefs are based partly on Zoroastrianism and Sufism.
- yibbles — perhaps
- yippies — Plural form of yippie.
- yumpies — a young, well-educated person who has a professional career and aspires to a higher social and economic status; yuppie.
- yuppies — Plural form of yuppie.
- zestily — In a zesty manner; with zest.