9-letter words containing y, e, t
- statelily — in a stately or dignified manner
- stathenry — the electrostatic unit of inductance, equivalent to 8.9876 × 10 11 henries and equal to the inductance of a circuit in which an electromotive force of one statvolt is produced by a current in the circuit which varies at the rate of one statampere per second.
- stay over — spend the night
- staymaker — a corset maker, a maker of stays
- steelyard — a portable balance with two unequal arms, the longer one having a movable counterpoise and the shorter one bearing a hook or the like for holding the object to be weighed.
- stenotype — a keyboard machine resembling a typewriter, used in a system of phonetic shorthand.
- stenotypy — shorthand in which alphabetic letters or types are used to produce shortened forms of words or groups of words.
- sterilely — free from living germs or microorganisms; aseptic: sterile surgical instruments.
- sterility — free from living germs or microorganisms; aseptic: sterile surgical instruments.
- stewardry — the office or position of a steward or overseer
- stintedly — in a stinted, scant, or limited manner
- stitchery — needlework.
- storyette — a short or shortened story
- storyless — a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
- storyline — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- strangely — unusual, extraordinary, or curious; odd; queer: a strange remark to make.
- streamway — the bed of a stream.
- streetboy — a boy living on the street
- stridency — making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident insects; strident hinges.
- strongyle — any nematode of the family Strongylidae, parasitic as an adult in the intestine of mammals, especially horses.
- studentry — students collectively
- stylebook — a book containing rules of usage in typography, punctuation, etc., employed by printers, editors, and writers.
- styleless — lacking style
- stylobate — a course of masonry, part of the stereobate, forming the foundation for a colonnade, especially the outermost colonnade.
- stylolite — an irregular columnar structure in certain limestones, the columns being approximately at right angles to the bedding planes.
- stylopize — (of a stylops) to parasitize (a host)
- stymieing — Golf. (on a putting green) an instance of a ball's lying on a direct line between the cup and the ball of an opponent about to putt.
- subdeputy — an assistant to a deputy
- subsystem — a secondary or subordinate system.
- superbity — pride
- supercity — a large, heavily populated urban area that includes several cities; megalopolis.
- sweet bay — laurel (def 1).
- sylleptic — the use of a word or expression to perform two syntactic functions, especially to modify two or more words of which at least one does not agree in number, case, or gender, as the use of are in Neither he nor we are willing.
- sylvanite — a mineral, gold silver telluride, (AuAg)Te 2 , silver-white with metallic luster, often occurring in crystals so arranged as to resemble written characters: an ore of gold.
- sylvester — (Gerbert) died 1003, French ecclesiastic: pope 999–1003.
- sylvinite — an ore containing sylvine
- symmetral — relating to symmetry
- symmetric — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- sympetaly — the condition of fused petals
- synaptase — a compound present in almonds and other oily seeds
- syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
- syncretic — the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion.
- syndicate — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
- synectics — the study of creative processes, especially as applied to the solution of problems by a group of diverse individuals.
- synergist — Physiology, Medicine/Medical. a body organ, medicine, etc., that cooperates with another or others to produce or enhance an effect.
- synnemata — a spore-bearing structure having very compact conidiophores.
- synoekete — an insect that lives in the nests of social insects, esp ants, without receiving any attentions from the inmates
- syntectic — relating to syntexis
- syntheses — the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity (opposed to analysis, ) the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements.
- synthesis — the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity (opposed to analysis, ) the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements.