9-letter words containing y, n
- spun yarn — yarn produced by spinning fibers into a continuous strand.
- spy plane — an aircraft used to carry out surveillance of an enemy country or military formations from a high altitude
- squinancy — a prostrate Eurasian plant, Asperula cynanchica, of the madder family, having smooth, weak stems and sparse white or pink flowers, formerly believed to be a cure for quinsy.
- stagnancy — not flowing or running, as water, air, etc.
- staminody — the metamorphosis of any of various flower organs, as a sepal or a petal, into a stamen.
- standaway — (of a garment) designed or constructed to stand upright or extend outward from the body: a standaway collar.
- staringly — in a staring way
- 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.
- staunchly — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- 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.
- stintedly — in a stinted, scant, or limited manner
- stony pit — a disease of pears, caused by a virus and characterized by deformed, pitted fruit.
- stornoway — a city in NW Scotland, in the Hebrides.
- 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.
- strangury — painful urination in which the urine is emitted drop by drop owing to muscle spasms of the urethra or urinary bladder.
- strayhorn — William ("Billy") 1915–67, U.S. jazz pianist and composer: collaborator with Duke Ellington.
- strayling — a stray
- 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.
- strychnia — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.
- strychnic — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.
- studentry — students collectively
- 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.
- subagency — an organization, company, or bureau that provides some service for another: a welfare agency.
- subcolony — a colony established by an existing colony
- subcounty — a division of a county
- sublunary — situated beneath the moon or between the earth and the moon.
- sunnyvale — a city in central California, south of San Francisco.
- 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.
- surgeoncy — the office, duties, or position of a surgeon, esp in the army or navy
- surveying — the science or scientific method of making surveys of land.
- sycophant — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- 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.
- sylvinite — an ore containing sylvine
- symbionts — an organism living in a state of symbiosis.
- symbolang — Lapidus & Goldstein, 1965. Symbol manipulating Fortran subroutine package for IBM 7094, later CDC 6600.
- symington — (William) Stuart, 1901–1988, U.S. politician: senator 1952–77.
- sympathin — a substance released at certain sympathetic nerve endings: thought to be identical with adrenaline
- 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.
- synagogue — a Jewish house of worship, often having facilities for religious instruction.
- synalepha — the blending of two successive vowels into one, especially the coalescence of a vowel at the end of one word with a vowel at the beginning of the next.
- synangium — a common vascular junction from which several arteries branch
- synanthic — relating to synanthy
- synaptase — a compound present in almonds and other oily seeds
- synaxaria — a summary of the life of a saint or of the particulars of a feast, read at the orthros.
- synchrony — simultaneous occurrence; synchronism.
- synchysis — an arrangement of words with muddled meaning