9-letter words containing y, e, t
- water boy — a person who carries a canteen or bucket of drinking water to those too occupied to fetch it, as to soldiers, laborers, or football players.
- water key — a lever to drain saliva from a brass musical instrument, as the trombone.
- waterbody — Any significant accumulation of water, usually covering the Earth or another planet, such as a river, lake or a bay.
- waterbury — a city in W Connecticut.
- waterlily — Alternative spelling of water lily.
- waterways — A river, canal, or other route for travel by water.
- wealthily — In a wealthy way.
- weatherly — (of a ship or boat) making very little leeway when close-hauled.
- weightily — In a weighty manner; ponderously; forcibly.
- westerlys — a town in SW Rhode Island.
- westernly — (obsolete) In or towards the west. (16th-19th c.).
- white-eye — any of numerous small, chiefly tropical Old World songbirds of the family Zosteropidae, most of which have a ring of white feathers around the eye: several species are endangered.
- whiteboys — a secret agrarian peasant organization, active in Ireland during the early 1760s, whose members wore white shirts for recognition on their night raids to destroy crops, barns, and other property in redressing grievances against landlords and protesting the paying of tithes.
- wild type — an organism having an appearance that is characteristic of the species in a natural breeding population.
- witchetty — Synonym of witchetty grub.
- witlessly — In a witless manner.
- word-type — word class; part of speech
- wyandotte — a city in SE Michigan, on the Detroit River.
- wyliecoat — a woolen or flannel undergarment, as a warm undershirt.
- xenocryst — a rock or crystal engulfed by magma and retained as an inclusion in the resulting igneous rock.
- xerophyte — a plant adapted for growth under dry conditions.
- xylometer — a device for measuring the specific gravity of wood
- yachtsmen — Irregular plural form of yachtsman.
- yeastless — any of various small, single-celled fungi of the phylum Ascomycota that reproduce by fission or budding, the daughter cells often remaining attached, and that are capable of fermenting carbohydrates into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
- yellowest — Superlative form of yellow.
- yesterday — on the day preceding this day.
- yestereve — (archaic) yesterday evening.
- yestersol — On the sol before the present one.
- york rite — one of the two advanced divisions of Masonic membership, leading to the Knights Templar degree.
- yottabyte — 2 80 bytes; 1024 zettabytes.
- youngests — superl. of young.
- youngster — a child.
- youthless — the condition of being young.
- youthsome — (archaic) youthful.
- ytterbite — (obsolete) Gadolinite: a black, vitreous mineral consisting primarily of silicates of various rare earths including ytterbium.
- ytterbium — a rare metallic element found in gadolinite and forming compounds resembling those of yttrium. Symbol: Yb; atomic weight: 173.04; atomic number: 70; specific gravity: 6.96.
- ytterbous — of or containing ytterbium, esp. divalent ytterbium
- zelotypia — (formal) jealousy.
- zestfully — With zest or enthusiasm.
- zettabyte — 2 70 bytes; 1024 exabyte.
- zoophytes — Plural form of zoophyte.
- zootechny — the science of breeding animals
- zygophyte — a plant that reproduces by means of zygospores.
- zymometer — an instrument for measuring the degree of fermentation.
- zymophyte — (biochemistry) A fermentation produced by bacteria, yeasts or similar micro-organisms.