8-letter words containing y, e, i, s
- emptysis — the act of spitting up blood
- empyesis — a pus-filled boil on the skin
- emulsify — Make into or become an emulsion.
- entryism — the policy or practice of members of a particular political group joining an existing political party with the intention of changing its principles and policies, instead of forming a new party
- envyings — Plural form of envying.
- epilepsy — A neurological disorder marked by sudden recurrent episodes of sensory disturbance, loss of consciousness, or convulsions, associated with abnormal electrical activity in the brain.
- epimysia — Plural form of epimysium.
- epinasty — (botany) the downward curvature of leaves etc due to differential growth rates.
- episcopy — (obsolete) survey; superintendence.
- epistyle — architrave (sense 1)
- essaying — Present participle of essay.
- essayish — resembling an essay
- essayist — A person who writes essays, especially as a literary genre.
- esterify — (chemistry) (of an acid) to combine with an alcohol or (of an alcohol) to combine with an acid, to form an ester.
- eyelifts — Plural form of eyelift.
- eyeshine — the reflection of light from an animal's eye at night
- eyesight — A person's ability to see.
- feasibly — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
- feistily — full of animation, energy, or courage; spirited; spunky; plucky: The champion is faced with a feisty challenger.
- fish-eye — a very small lens in a door that enables a person inside to see a visitor
- fleshily — with respect to flesh; in a fleshy manner
- fogeyish — Characteristic of or resembling an old fogey: outdated or out of touch.
- greasily — In a greasy manner.
- greylist — to hold (someone) in suspicion, without actually excluding him or her from a particular activity
- gypseian — relating to gypsies
- hayrides — Plural form of hayride.
- hydrides — Plural form of hydride.
- hygenist — Alternative spelling of hygienist.
- hygienes — Also, hygienics. the science that deals with the preservation of health.
- hyoscine — scopolamine.
- hysteria — an uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear, often characterized by irrationality, laughter, weeping, etc.
- hysteric — Usually, hysterics. a fit of uncontrollable laughter or weeping; hysteria.
- in style — a particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character: the baroque style; The style of the house was too austere for their liking.
- insanely — not sane; not of sound mind; mentally deranged.
- isocryme — a line on a map connecting points that have the same temperature during the coldest period of a year
- isohyets — Plural form of isohyet.
- isohypse — (meteorology) A line on a map connecting points of equal height of a given pressure level.
- isometry — equality of measure.
- isozymes — any of the genetically variant forms of certain enzymes that catalyze the same reaction but that may differ in activity, composition, or physical properties.
- joyrides — Plural form of joyride.
- kielbasy — a smoked sausage of coarsely chopped beef and pork, flavored with garlic and spices.
- kingsley — Charles, 1819–75, English clergyman, novelist, and poet.
- lecythis — any very tall tree of the genus Lecythis
- libertys — a town in W Missouri.
- lyricise — to write lyrics.
- lysergic — Used in designation of lysergic acid, lysergic acid diethylamide.
- lysithea — a small moon of the planet Jupiter.
- mayflies — Plural form of mayfly.
- merycism — a condition in which undigested food is regurgitated
- mesially — Toward the central plane of a body with bilateral symmetry.