7-letter words containing hy
- malachy — Saint. 1094–1148, Irish prelate; he became Archbishop of Armagh (1132) and founded (1142) the first Cistercian abbey in Ireland. Feast day: Nov 3
- menschy — Upstanding; having integrity and responsibility.
- oophyte — the gametophyte of a moss, fern, or liverwort, resulting from the development of a fertilized egg.
- paunchy — having a large and protruding belly; potbellied: a paunchy middle-aged man.
- phyllid — the leaf of a liverwort or moss
- phyllis — a name used in pastoral literature, as the Eclogues of Vergil, for a country girl or sweetheart.
- phyllo- — leaf
- phys ed — physical education.
- physics — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
- physio- — of or relating to nature or natural functions
- phytane — a hydrocarbon found in some fossilized plant remains
- phytate — a salt or ester of phytic acid, occurring in plants, especially cereal grains, capable of forming insoluble complexes with calcium, zinc, iron, and other nutrients and interfering with their absorption by the body.
- phytoid — having the appearance of a plant; like a plant
- preachy — tediously or pretentiously didactic.
- queachy — unwell
- raunchy — vulgar or smutty; crude; earthy; obscene: a raunchy joke.
- rhyming — identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.
- rhymist — a person who rhymes
- rhythms — movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.
- rhytina — a member of an extinct genus of mammals that lived in water, also known as Steller's sea cow
- sagathy — a type of light, woollen fabric
- samkhya — one of the six leading systems of Hindu philosophy, stressing the reality and duality of spirit and matter.
- sandhya — a ritual of worship and meditation performed three times a day by Hindus of the higher castes.
- sankhya — one of the six leading systems of Hindu philosophy, stressing the reality and duality of spirit and matter.
- sheathy — resembling or constituting a sheath
- shishya — a pupil of a guru.
- shylock — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- shyness — bashful; retiring.
- shyster — a lawyer who uses unprofessional or questionable methods.
- sketchy — like a sketch; giving only outlines or essentials. Synonyms: cursory, rough, meager, crude.
- sleechy — muddy
- slouchy — of or relating to a slouch or to a slouching manner, posture, etc.
- sloughy — the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
- smoochy — (of a piece of music) played for dancing to slowly and amorously
- smoothy — smoothie.
- smutchy — of or relating to smutch; dirty; grimy; soiled; smudged.
- snatchy — consisting of, occurring in, or characterized by snatches; spasmodic; irregular.
- snitchy — cross; ill-tempered.
- somewhy — for some reason
- splashy — making a splash or splashes.
- squashy — easily squashed; pulpy.
- squishy — soft and wet: The ground was squishy from the rain.
- squushy — squishy.
- stachys — any plant of the genus Stachys, esp S. lanata (lamb's ears) and S. officinalis (betony)
- starchy — of, relating to, or of the nature of starch.
- swarthy — (of skin color, complexion, etc.) dark.
- switchy — moving as a switch
- tachyon — a hypothetical particle that travels faster than the speed of light.
- thymine — a pyrimidine base, C 5 H 6 N 2 O 2 , that is one of the principal components of DNA, in which it is paired with adenine. Symbol: T.
- thyroid — of or relating to the thyroid gland.