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8-letter words containing sy

  • overbusy — Excessively busy.
  • overeasy — too easy
  • phantasy — fantasy.
  • pleurisy — inflammation of the pleura, with or without a liquid effusion in the pleural cavity, characterized by a dry cough and pain in the affected side.
  • postsync — postsynchronization
  • primrosy — characteristic of, or resembling, a primrose (esp in colour)
  • prophesy — to foretell or predict.
  • psych up — to intimidate or frighten psychologically, or make nervous (often followed by out): to psych out the competition.
  • psyching — psych1 .
  • psychism — the belief in a universal soul; the attributing of souls to inanimate objects or phenomena
  • psychist — a person who believes in psychic phenomena
  • psychoid — the innate impetus to perform actions
  • psychol. — psychological
  • psychro- — cold
  • psyllids — jumping plant louse.
  • psyllium — fleawort.
  • pussycat — a cat; pussy.
  • sissyish — rather effeminate
  • sisyphus — a son of Aeolus and ruler of Corinth, noted for his trickery: he was punished in Tartarus by being compelled to roll a stone to the top of a slope, the stone always escaping him near the top and rolling down again.
  • sybarite — (usually lowercase) a person devoted to luxury and pleasure.
  • sybotism — the keeping of swine
  • sycamine — a tree mentioned in the New Testament, probably the black mulberry.
  • sycamore — Also called buttonwood. any of several North American plane trees, especially Platanus occidentalis, having shallowly lobed ovate leaves, globular seed heads, and wood valued as timber.
  • syconium — a multiple fruit developed from a hollow fleshy receptacle containing numerous flowers, as in the fig.
  • syconoid — pertaining to or resembling a sycon.
  • syllabic — of, relating to, or consisting of a syllable or syllables.
  • syllable — an uninterrupted segment of speech consisting of a vowel sound, a diphthong, or a syllabic consonant, with or without preceding or following consonant sounds: “Eye,” “sty,” “act,” and “should” are English words of one syllable. “Eyelet,” “stifle,” “enact,” and “shouldn't” are two-syllable words.
  • syllabub — a drink of milk or cream sweetened, flavored, and mixed with wine or cider.
  • syllabus — an outline or other brief statement of the main points of a discourse, the subjects of a course of lectures, the contents of a curriculum, etc.
  • sylvaner — a white grape grown in the Alsace region of France and in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria.
  • sylvania — a town in NW Ohio.
  • sylvanus — Silvanus.
  • sylvatic — sylvan.
  • sylviine — (of a bird) belonging to the subfamily Sylviinae
  • symantec — (company)   Software manufacturer of utility and development applications for Windows and Macintosh platforms. Products include ACT!, Norton Utilities, Norton AntiVirus, Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh, Symantec Cafe.
  • symbiont — an organism living in a state of symbiosis.
  • symbiote — an organism living in a state of symbiosis.
  • symbmath — (mathematics, tool)   A small symbolic mathematics package for MS-DOS which can learn new facts.
  • symbolic — serving as a symbol of something (often followed by of).
  • symmetry — the correspondence in size, form, and arrangement of parts on opposite sides of a plane, line, or point; regularity of form or arrangement in terms of like, reciprocal, or corresponding parts.
  • sympathy — harmony of or agreement in feeling, as between persons or on the part of one person with respect to another.
  • sympatry — the occurrence of sympatric organisms
  • symphile — an insect or other organism that lives in the nests of social insects, esp ants and termites, and is fed and reared by the inmates
  • symphony — Music. an elaborate instrumental composition in three or more movements, similar in form to a sonata but written for an orchestra and usually of far grander proportions and more varied elements. an instrumental passage occurring in a vocal composition, or between vocal movements in a composition. an instrumental piece, often in several movements, forming the overture to an opera or the like.
  • symplast — the continuous system of protoplasts, linked by plasmodesmata and bounded by the cell wall
  • symploce — the simultaneous use of anaphora and epistrophe.
  • sympodia — an axis or stem that simulates a simple stem but is made up of the bases of a number of axes that arise successively as branches, one from another, as in the grapevine.
  • synalgia — referred pain.
  • synalgic — referred pain.
  • synanthy — an abnormal fusion of two or more flowers
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