9-letter words containing y, e, s, i
- media-shy — reluctant to appear in the mass media
- methystic — intoxicating
- miscegeny — (rare) Miscegenation.
- misemploy — to use for the wrong purpose; use wrongly or improperly; misuse.
- miserably — wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable: miserable victims of war.
- misplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of misplay.
- misrhymed — badly rhymed
- missilery — the science of the construction and use of guided missiles.
- moneywise — In terms of money; financially speaking.
- monkeyish — Like a monkey.
- monkeyism — the practice of copying or behaving like a monkey
- mycerinus — king of ancient Egypt c2600–2570 b.c.: builder of the third great pyramid at ·El· Giza.
- mykerinos — Mycerinus.
- myristate — (chemistry) any salt or ester of myristic acid.
- mysterial — (obsolete) mysterious.
- mysteries — Plural form of mystery.
- mysterium — (chemistry, alchemy, now historical) Any of various unknown elements thought to make up existing forms of matter, or a substance seen as an elemental or pure form of something else.
- mysticete — any whale of the suborder Mysticeti, as finback and humpback whales, characterized by a symmetrical skull, paired blowholes, and rows of baleen plates for feeding on plankton.
- mysticize — to make mystical; give mystical meaning to: to mysticize natural phenomena.
- mystified — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
- mystifier — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
- mystifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mystify.
- mythicise — Alt form mythicize.
- necessity — something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
- nervosity — the quality of being nervous; nervousness.
- obscenity — the character or quality of being obscene; indecency; lewdness.
- ogreishly — in the manner of an ogre
- onerosity — burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship: onerous duties.
- operosity — the quality or characteristic of being operose
- ossietzky — Carl von [kahrl fuh n] /kɑrl fən/ (Show IPA), 1889–1938, German pacifist: Nobel Peace Prize 1935.
- oystering — any of several edible, marine, bivalve mollusks of the family Ostreidae, having an irregularly shaped shell, occurring on the bottom or adhering to rocks or other objects in shallow water.
- palsylike — resembling palsy
- passively — not reacting visibly to something that might be expected to produce manifestations of an emotion or feeling.
- pay raise — an increase in wages or salary
- pensively — dreamily or wistfully thoughtful: a pensive mood.
- peristyle — a colonnade surrounding a building or an open space.
- personify — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- phyletics — phylogenetic classification.
- physicked — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
- physiqued — having a particular physique
- piss easy — easily obtained or achieved
- polynesia — one of the three principal divisions of Oceania, comprising those island groups in the Pacific lying E of Melanesia and Micronesia and extending from the Hawaiian Islands S to New Zealand.
- polynices — a son of Oedipus and Jocasta and brother of Eteocles and Antigone on whose behalf the Seven against Thebes were organized.
- polysemic — capable of having several possible meanings
- posterity — succeeding or future generations collectively: Judgment of this age must be left to posterity.
- precisely — definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed: precise directions.
- presbytic — affected by presbyopia
- prettyish — quite pretty
- prettyism — an affectedly pretty style
- priestley — J(ohn) B(oynton) [boin-tuh n,, -tn] /ˈbɔɪn tən,, -tn/ (Show IPA), 1894–1984, English novelist.