5-letter words containing sy
- mossy — overgrown with or abounding in moss: a mossy stone.
- mousy — resembling or suggesting a mouse, as in color or odor.
- mumsy — (informal) Characteristic of a mum; motherly.
- mussy — untidy, messy, or rumpled.
- newsy — full of news: a nice long newsy letter.
- noisy — abounding in or full of noise: a noisy assembly hall.
- nutsy — nutty (defs 3, 4).
- palsy — any of a variety of atonal muscular conditions characterized by tremors of the body parts, as the hands, arms, or legs, or of the entire body.
- pansy — a violet, Viola tricolor hortensis, cultivated in many varieties, having richly and variously colored flowers.
- passy — Frédérick [frey-dey-reek] /freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1822–1912, French economist and statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1901.
- patsy — a person who is easily swindled, deceived, coerced, persuaded, etc.; sucker.
- pepsy — Prolog extended with parallel modules within which explicit OR-parallelism can be used.
- pissy — soiled with or reeking of urine.
- poesy — the work or the art of poetic composition.
- popsy — a girl or young woman.
- possy — possie.
- potsy — hopscotch.
- prosy — of the nature of or resembling prose.
- psych — to intimidate or frighten psychologically, or make nervous (often followed by out): to psych out the competition.
- psyop — a military operation performed by a unit specializing in psychological warfare
- pudsy — a plump person
- pursy — vain about one's wealth; purse-proud.
- pussy — Informal. a cat, especially a kitten.
- rosys — a female given name, form of Rose.
- sassy — impertinent; insolent; saucy: a sassy reply; a sassy teen.
- sissy — Disparaging and Offensive. an effeminate boy or man.
- sonsy — strong and healthy; robust.
- sudsy — consisting of, containing, or producing foamy lather.
- sybil — a female given name.
- sycee — fine uncoined silver in lumps of various sizes usually bearing a banker's or assayer's stamp or mark, formerly used in China as a medium of exchange.
- sycon — a type of sponge having a thick body wall that is folded to form many short canals leading to the spongocoel.
- sydel — A system language, fully typed, with inline assembly code, by Jan Garwick, ca 1974.
- syene — ancient name of Aswan.
- sygma — A symbolic generator and macro assembler by A.P. Ershov et al of Novosibirsk. For the BESM-6, M-220 and Minsk-22.
- syker — secure; sure
- sykes — sike.
- sylis — an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Guinea, equal to 100 cauris: replaced the franc in 1972.
- sylph — a slender, graceful woman or girl.
- sylva — the forest trees of a particular area.
- sympl — (language) SYsteMs Programming Language.
- synch — synchronization: The picture and the soundtrack were out of sync.
- syncs — synchronization: The picture and the soundtrack were out of sync.
- synge — John Millington [mil-ing-tuh n] /ˈmɪl ɪŋ tən/ (Show IPA), 1871–1909, Irish dramatist.
- synod — an assembly of ecclesiastics or other church delegates, convoked pursuant to the law of the church, for the discussion and decision of ecclesiastical affairs; ecclesiastical council.
- synth — Informal. synthesizer (def 2).
- syrah — a red grape grown in France and Australia, used, often in a blend, for making wine
- syria — Official name Syrian Arab Republic. a republic in SW Asia at the E end of the Mediterranean. 71,227 sq. mi. (184,478 sq. km). Capital: Damascus.
- syro- — indicating Syrian and
- syros — an island in the Aegean Sea, off the SE coast of Greece, the largest island in the Cyclades group. 32 sq. mi. (84 sq. km).
- syrup — any of various thick, sweet liquids prepared for table use from molasses, glucose, etc., water, and often a flavoring agent.