9-letter words containing y, i, p, s
- pyrolysis — the subjection of organic compounds to very high temperatures.
- raspingly — harsh; grating: a rasping voice.
- redisplay — to display again
- respecify — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- rompishly — in a rompish manner
- sciophyte — any plant that grows best in the shade
- sciosophy — supposed knowledge of natural or supernatural phenomena or forces, usually based on tradition, as astrology or phrenology.
- scriptory — of or relating to writing
- self-pity — pity for oneself, especially a self-indulgent attitude concerning one's own difficulties, hardships, etc.: We must resist yielding to self-pity and carry on as best we can.
- septicity — pertaining to or of the nature of sepsis; infected.
- serotypic — of or relating to a serotype
- sippy cup — a spill-resistant drinking cup for toddlers, having a tight lid with a spout.
- sisyphean — of or relating to Sisyphus.
- skiascopy — retinoscope.
- sky pilot — a member of the clergy, especially a chaplain of the armed forces.
- sky-pilot — a member of the clergy, especially a chaplain of the armed forces.
- snipe fly — any of various predatory dipterous flies of the family Leptidae (or Rhagionidae), such as Rhagio scolopacea of Europe, having an elongated body and long legs
- sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
- spacially — spatial.
- spagyrist — an alchemist
- sparingly — economical (often followed by in or of).
- spatially — of or relating to space.
- specially — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- specialty — a special or distinctive quality, mark, state, or condition.
- speechify — to make a speech or speeches; harangue.
- sphygmoid — resembling the pulse; pulselike.
- spinosity — the condition of being spinose
- spiny rat — any of various ratlike rodents of the genus Echimys, inhabiting forests of Central and South America, most having bristly fur.
- spirality — the spiral nature of a curve
- spirogyra — a widely distributed filamentous freshwater green alga of the genus Spirogyra.
- splintery — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- splodgily — in a splodgy manner
- sprightly — animated or vivacious; lively.
- stony pit — a disease of pears, caused by a virus and characterized by deformed, pitted fruit.
- stupidity — the state, quality, or fact of being stupid.
- stylopize — (of a stylops) to parasitize (a host)
- superbity — pride
- supercity — a large, heavily populated urban area that includes several cities; megalopolis.
- supplying — to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite: to supply someone clothing; to supply a community with electricity.
- syllepsis — 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.
- 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.
- sylphlike — a slender, graceful woman or girl.
- sympathin — a substance released at certain sympathetic nerve endings: thought to be identical with adrenaline
- sympatico — simpatico
- sympatric — originating in or occupying the same geographical area.
- symphonia — any of various medieval musical instruments, as the hurdy-gurdy.
- symphonic — Music. of, for, pertaining to, or having the character of a symphony or symphony orchestra.
- symphysis — the growing together, or the fixed or nearly fixed union, of bones, as that of the two halves of the lower jaw in humans or of the pubic bones in the anterior part of the pelvic girdle.
- sympodium — an axis or stem that simulates a simple stem but is made up of the bases of a number of axes that arise successively as branches, one from another, as in the grapevine.
- symposiac — of, relating to, or suitable for a symposium.