8-letter words containing y, e, i, s
- silverly — with a silvery appearance or sound.
- siserary — a scolding
- sisterly — of, like, or befitting a sister: sisterly affection.
- sixpenny — of the amount or value of sixpence; costing sixpence.
- sizeably — sizable.
- skinnery — a place where skins are prepared, as for the market.
- skittery — skittish.
- skydiver — freefalling parachutist
- skywrite — to engage in skywriting.
- sleepily — ready or inclined to sleep; drowsy.
- sliddery — slippery
- slideway — an inclined surface along which something can slide.
- slippery — tending or liable to cause slipping or sliding, as ice, oil, a wet surface, etc.: a slippery road.
- slithery — to slide down or along a surface, especially unsteadily, from side to side, or with some friction or noise: The box slithered down the chute.
- smithery — the work, craft, or workshop of a smith.
- snailery — a place where snails are bred
- sneakily — like or suggestive of a sneak; furtive; deceitful.
- snickery — of, pertaining to, or resembling a snicker
- snippety — sharp or curt, especially in a supercilious or haughty way; impertinent.
- sobriety — the state or quality of being sober.
- soldiery — soldiers collectively.
- speedily — characterized by speed; rapid; swift; fast.
- speyside — the area surrounding the River Spey in E Scotland; famous for whisky distilleries.
- spinnery — a spinning mill.
- spivvery — the characteristic behaviour of a spiv
- squirely — belonging or relating to, or appropriate to, a squire or squires
- steadily — firmly placed or fixed; stable in position or equilibrium: a steady ladder.
- steinway — Henry Engelhard [eng-guh l-hahrd,, -hahrt] /ˈɛŋ gəlˌhɑrd,, -ˌhɑrt/ (Show IPA), (Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg) 1797–1871, U.S. piano manufacturer, born in Germany.
- stellify — to change or be changed into a star
- stickley — Gustav [guhs-tahv,, goo s-tahf] /ˈgʌs tɑv,, ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1858–1942, U.S. furniture designer, architect, and leader of the Arts and Craft Movement in America.
- stievely — in a firm way
- stylised — to design in or cause to conform to a particular style, as of representation or treatment in art; conventionalize.
- stylized — to design in or cause to conform to a particular style, as of representation or treatment in art; conventionalize.
- supinely — lying on the back, face or front upward.
- sybarite — (usually lowercase) a person devoted to luxury and pleasure.
- sycamine — a tree mentioned in the New Testament, probably the black mulberry.
- sylviine — (of a bird) belonging to the subfamily Sylviinae
- symbiote — an organism living in a state of symbiosis.
- symphile — an insect or other organism that lives in the nests of social insects, esp ants and termites, and is fed and reared by the inmates
- syncline — a synclinal fold.
- syndesis — synapsis (def 1).
- syndetic — serving to unite or connect; connective; copulative.
- synechia — any adhesion of parts of the body, as of the iris to the cornea.
- synectic — the study of creative processes, especially as applied to the solution of problems by a group of diverse individuals.
- synergic — the interaction of elements that when combined produce a total effect that is greater than the sum of the individual elements, contributions, etc.; synergism.
- synergid — one of two small cells that lie inside the embryo sac of a flowering plant and nourish the ovum.
- syntexis — the alteration of magma by assimilation of a different mineral or by melting
- syringes — 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.
- systemic — of or relating to a system.
- the yips — (in golf) nervous twitching or tension that destroys concentration and spoils performance