9-letter words containing sy
- symbioses — Biology. the living together of two dissimilar organisms, as in mutualism, commensalism, amensalism, or parasitism. (formerly) mutualism (def 1).
- symbiosis — Biology. the living together of two dissimilar organisms, as in mutualism, commensalism, amensalism, or parasitism. (formerly) mutualism (def 1).
- symbiotic — living in symbiosis, or having an interdependent relationship: Many people feel the relationship between humans and dogs is symbiotic.
- symbolang — Lapidus & Goldstein, 1965. Symbol manipulating Fortran subroutine package for IBM 7094, later CDC 6600.
- symbolics — the branch of theology dealing with the study of the history and meaning of church creeds and confessions.
- symbolise — to be a symbol of; stand for or represent in the manner of a symbol.
- symbolism — the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character.
- symbolist — a person who uses symbols or symbolism.
- symbolize — to be a symbol of; stand for or represent in the manner of a symbol.
- symbology — the study of symbols.
- symington — (William) Stuart, 1901–1988, U.S. politician: senator 1952–77.
- symmachus — Saint, died a.d. 514, pope 498–514.
- symmetral — relating to symmetry
- symmetric — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- sympathin — a substance released at certain sympathetic nerve endings: thought to be identical with adrenaline
- sympatico — simpatico
- sympatric — originating in or occupying the same geographical area.
- sympetaly — the condition of fused petals
- 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.
- symphysis — the growing together, or the fixed or nearly fixed union, of bones, as that of the two halves of the lower jaw in humans or of the pubic bones in the anterior part of the pelvic girdle.
- sympodium — 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.
- symposiac — of, relating to, or suitable for a symposium.
- symposium — a meeting or conference for the discussion of some subject, especially a meeting at which several speakers talk on or discuss a topic before an audience.
- symptosis — local or general atrophy.
- symptotic — relating to symptosis
- 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
- synclinal — sloping downward from opposite directions so as to meet in a common point or line.
- syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
- syncretic — the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion.
- syncrisis — the comparison of opposites.
- syncytial — a multinucleate mass of cytoplasm that is not separated into cells.
- syncytium — a multinucleate mass of cytoplasm that is not separated into cells.
- syndactyl — having certain digits joined together.
- syndicate — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
- syndromic — Pathology, Psychiatry. a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease, or the like.
- synechism — a doctrine of philosophical thinking stressing the importance of the idea of continuity: named and advocated by C. S. Peirce.
- synecious — synoicous.
- synectics — the study of creative processes, especially as applied to the solution of problems by a group of diverse individuals.
- synedrial — relating to a synedrion
- synedrion — an assembly of judges or representatives
- syneresis — the contraction of two syllables or two vowels into one, especially the contraction of two vowels so as to form a diphthong.
- synergism — synergy (def 1).