7-letter words containing y, s
- hayseed — grass seed, especially that shaken out of hay.
- hearsay — unverified, unofficial information gained or acquired from another and not part of one's direct knowledge: I pay no attention to hearsay.
- heresay — Misspelling of hearsay.
- hershey — Alfred Day, 1908–97, U.S. biologist: helped lay the foundation of modern molecular genetics; Nobel Prize in Medicine 1969.
- heydays — Plural form of heyday.
- heymans — Corneille [kawr-ne-yuh] /kɔrˈnɛ yə/ (Show IPA), 1892–1968, Belgian physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1938.
- heysham — a port in NW England, in NW Lancashire. Pop (with Morecambe): 16 136 (2001)
- hickeys — Plural form of hickey.
- history — the branch of knowledge dealing with past events.
- honesty — the quality or fact of being honest; uprightness and fairness.
- hooleys — Plural form of hooley.
- hoorays — Plural form of hooray.
- hornsby — Rogers, 1896–1963, U.S. baseball player and manager.
- horsely — Pertaining to or relating to horses; horse-like; equine.
- horsily — in a horsy manner.
- hosiery — stockings or socks of any kind.
- houssay — Bernardo Alberto [ber-nahr-th aw ahl-ver-taw] /bɛrˈnɑr ðɔ ɑlˈvɛr tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1887–1971, Argentine physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1947.
- hoydens — Plural form of hoyden.
- hurleys — Plural form of hurley.
- hurrays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hurray.
- hushaby — Used to calm a child.
- huskily — big and strong; burly.
- huygens — Christian [kris-chuh n;; Dutch kris-tee-ahn] /ˈkrɪs tʃən;; Dutch ˈkrɪs tiˌɑn/ (Show IPA), 1629–95, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer.
- hyaenas — Plural form of hyaena.
- hybrids — Plural form of hybrid.
- hydrase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the addition of a water molecule into a compound without causing hydrolysis.
- hydrops — (formerly) edema.
- hydrous — containing water.
- hyginus — Saint, died a.d. 140, pope 136–140.
- hyloist — an adherent of hylotheism
- hymnals — Plural form of hymnal.
- hymnist — a composer of hymns.
- hyphens — Plural form of hyphen.
- hyppish — (dated) Affected with hypochondria; hypped.
- hyraxes — Plural form of hyrax.
- hyssops — Plural form of hyssop.
- ialysus — an ancient Mycenaean city on the island of Rhodes.
- iaysdah — (chat) I acknowledge your strangely depressing attempt at humour.
- ichthys — an early Christian emblem in the shape of a fish
- impalsy — (transitive) To strike with palsy; to paralyze; to deaden.
- in sync — in synchronization, harmonious
- instyle — (obsolete, transitive) To style.
- ipseity — Selfhood; individual identity.
- irishry — a custom, characteristic, or folkway of the Irish people
- ischury — (medicine) A retention or suppression of urine.
- ise bay — a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the S coast of Honshu, Japan.
- isoamyl — containing the isoamyl group; isopentyl.
- isogamy — the fusion of two gametes of similar form, as in certain algae.
- isogeny — The condition of being isogenous.
- isogony — the growth of two or more organs at a consistent rate, meaning that the difference in size between each organ remains constant