7-letter words containing y, n
- skyline — the boundary line between earth and sky; the apparent horizon: A sail appeared against the skyline.
- slaying — A slaying is a murder.
- slayton — Donald Kent ("Deke") 1924–1993, U.S. astronaut.
- slyness — cunning or wily: sly as a fox.
- snatchy — consisting of, occurring in, or characterized by snatches; spasmodic; irregular.
- snidely — derogatory in a nasty, insinuating manner: snide remarks about his boss.
- snitchy — cross; ill-tempered.
- snively — characterized by or given to sniveling.
- so many — a large number of
- solyman — Suleiman I.
- sonancy — the characteristic of being sonant
- soundly — free from injury, damage, defect, disease, etc.; in good condition; healthy; robust: a sound heart; a sound mind.
- soybean — a bushy Old World plant, Glycine max, of the legume family, grown in the U.S., chiefly for forage and soil improvement.
- soyinka — Wole [woh-ley] /ˈwoʊ leɪ/ (Show IPA), born 1934, Nigerian playwright, novelist, and poet: Nobel prize 1986.
- spangly — Spangly clothes are decorated with a lot of small shiny objects.
- spindly — long or tall, thin, and usually frail: The colt wobbled on its spindly legs.
- spinney — a small wood or thicket.
- spleeny — abundant in or displaying spleen.
- spondyl — a vertebra or something like a vertebra
- spooney — spoony.
- springy — characterized by spring or elasticity; flexible; resilient: He walks with a springy step.
- squinny — to squint.
- squinty — characterized by or having a squint.
- standby — a staunch supporter or adherent; one who can be relied upon.
- stanley — Arthur Penrhyn [pen-rin] /ˈpɛn rɪn/ (Show IPA), (Dean Stanley) 1815–81, English clergyman and author.
- stay in — remain at home
- stay on — remain
- staying — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
- stayman — a variety of apple grown chiefly in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
- stenoky — the ability of an organism to live or survive only within a limited range of environments
- stepney — a former borough of Greater London, England, now part of Tower Hamlets.
- sternly — firm, strict, or uncompromising: stern discipline.
- stonily — full of or abounding in stones or rock: a stony beach.
- stringy — resembling a string or strings; consisting of strings or stringlike pieces: stringy weeds; a stringy fiber.
- stygian — of or relating to the river Styx or to Hades.
- styling — a particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character: the baroque style; The style of the house was too austere for their liking.
- styrene — a colorless, water-insoluble liquid, C 8 H 8 , having a penetrating aromatic odor, usually prepared from ethylene and benzene or ethylbenzene, that polymerizes to a clear transparent material and copolymerizes with other materials to form synthetic rubbers.
- suiyuan — a former province in N China: now part of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region
- sunbury — a city in E central Pennsylvania.
- sundays — on Sundays.
- sunyata — that which exists absolutely and without predication.
- sweeney — a member of the flying squad (rhyming with Sweeney Todd)
- swinery — a pig farm
- swingby — act of spacecraft passing close to planet
- swinney — sweeny.
- syenite — a granular igneous rock consisting chiefly of orthoclase and oligoclase with hornblende, biotite, or augite.
- symonds — John Addington [ad-ing-tuh n] /ˈæd ɪŋ tən/ (Show IPA), 1840–93, English poet, essayist, and critic.
- synanon — a method of psychotherapy for treating drug addicts, originally practised in the drug rehabilitation centres of the Synanon organization, founded in 1958 in Santa Monica, California
- synapse — a region where nerve impulses are transmitted and received, encompassing the axon terminal of a neuron that releases neurotransmitters in response to an impulse, an extremely small gap across which the neurotransmitters travel, and the adjacent membrane of an axon, dendrite, or muscle or gland cell with the appropriate receptor molecules for picking up the neurotransmitters.
- synapte — a litany.