7-letter words containing y, s
- prosify — to write or make into prose (esp of a dull nature)
- prosody — the science or study of poetic meters and versification.
- psyched — psych1 .
- psychic — of or relating to the human soul or mind; mental (opposed to physical).
- psycho- — Psycho- is added to words in order to form other words which describe or refer to things connected with the mind or with mental processes.
- psykter — a wine jar with an ovoid body tapering at the neck, set on a high foot: used for cooling wine.
- psyllid — jumping plant louse.
- pursily — in a pursy manner
- pussley — purslane
- pussy's — Informal. a cat, especially a kitten.
- pyjamas — night clothes consisting of loose-fitting trousers and jacket.
- pylades — a son of Strophius who befriended Orestes, accompanied him in his wanderings, and eventually married Electra, sister of Orestes.
- pylorus — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- pyrites — pyrite.
- pyrosis — heartburn (def 1).
- pyrrhus — c318–272 b.c, king of Epirus c300–272.
- pytheas — 4th century bc, Greek navigator. He was the first Greek to visit and describe the coasts of Spain, France, and the British Isles and may have reached Iceland
- pythias — the priestess of Apollo at Delphi who delivered the oracles.
- pythons — a large dragon who guarded the chasm at Delphi from which prophetic vapors emerged. He was finally killed by Apollo, who established his oracle on the site.
- pyxides — Greek and Roman Antiquity. a box of a usually cylindrical shape having a lid with a knob in the center, used for toilet articles.
- quesnay — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1694–1774, French economist and physician.
- raybans — a brand of sunglasses
- rayless — lacking rays or raylike parts.
- respray — coat again with spray paint
- restudy — to study again
- restyle — 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.
- reynosa — a city in N Tamaulipas, in E Mexico, on the Rio Grande.
- rhymist — a person who rhymes
- rhythms — movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.
- rosalyn — a feminine name: var. Rosalynn
- rosebay — any of several rhododendrons, as the great laurel of eastern North America or Rhododendron macrophyllum, of the west coast of North America.
- rossiya — Russian name of Russia.
- royster — roister.
- rudesby — a rude person
- russify — Russianize (defs 1, 2).
- rybinsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, NNE of Moscow, on the Volga near the Rybinsk Reservoir. Also called Shcherbakov (1946–57)
- rysanek — Leonie [le-aw-nee] /ˈlɛ ɔˌni/ (Show IPA), 1926–98, Austrian soprano.
- ryswick — a town in SW Netherlands, near The Hague: Treaty of Ryswick 1697.
- sabayon — zabaglione.
- sacrify — to offer a sacrifice or offer (something) as a sacrifice
- sagathy — a type of light, woollen fabric
- saintly — pertaining to, like, or befitting a saint: saintly lives.
- sallowy — full of sallows: a sallowy glade.
- salmony — like salmon
- salsify — a purple-flowered, composite plant, Tragopogon porrifolius, whose root has an oyster-like flavor and is used as a culinary vegetable.
- saltily — in a salty manner
- samkhya — one of the six leading systems of Hindu philosophy, stressing the reality and duality of spirit and matter.
- samoyed — a member of a Uralic people dwelling in W Siberia and the far NE parts of European Russia.
- sandfly — any of several small, bloodsucking, dipterous insects of the family Psychodidae that are vectors of several diseases of humans.
- sandhya — a ritual of worship and meditation performed three times a day by Hindus of the higher castes.