7-letter words containing sy
- sybaris — an ancient Greek city in S Italy: noted for its wealth and luxury; destroyed 510 b.c.
- sybotic — of a swineherd
- sycosis — an inflammatory disease of the hair follicles, characterized by a pustular eruption.
- syenite — a granular igneous rock consisting chiefly of orthoclase and oligoclase with hornblende, biotite, or augite.
- syllabi — a plural of syllabus.
- sylloge — a collection or summary
- sylphic — a slender, graceful woman or girl.
- sylphid — a little or young sylph.
- sylvite — a common mineral, potassium chloride, KCl, colorless to milky-white or red, occurring in crystals, usually cubes, and masses with cubic cleavage, bitter in taste: the most important source of potassium.
- symbols — something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial; emblem, token, or sign.
- symonds — John Addington [ad-ing-tuh n] /ˈæd ɪŋ tən/ (Show IPA), 1840–93, English poet, essayist, and critic.
- symptom — any phenomenon or circumstance accompanying something and serving as evidence of it.
- synanon — a method of psychotherapy for treating drug addicts, originally practised in the drug rehabilitation centres of the Synanon organization, founded in 1958 in Santa Monica, California
- synapse — a region where nerve impulses are transmitted and received, encompassing the axon terminal of a neuron that releases neurotransmitters in response to an impulse, an extremely small gap across which the neurotransmitters travel, and the adjacent membrane of an axon, dendrite, or muscle or gland cell with the appropriate receptor molecules for picking up the neurotransmitters.
- synapte — a litany.
- synaxis — an assembly for religious worship, especially for the celebration of the Eucharist.
- syncarp — an aggregate fruit.
- synched — synchronization: The picture and the soundtrack were out of sync.
- synchro — any of a number of electrical devices in which the angular position of a rotating part is transformed into a voltage, or vice versa
- syncing — synchronization: The picture and the soundtrack were out of sync.
- syncope — Grammar. the contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in the reduction of never to ne'er.
- synergy — the interaction of elements that when combined produce a total effect that is greater than the sum of the individual elements, contributions, etc.; synergism.
- synesis — a construction in which an expected grammatical agreement in form is replaced by an agreement in meaning, as in The crowd rose to their feet, where a plural pronoun is used to refer to a singular noun.
- synfuel — synthetic fuel.
- syngamy — union of gametes, as in fertilization or conjugation; sexual reproduction.
- synnema — a spore-bearing structure having very compact conidiophores.
- synodal — 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.
- synodic — Astronomy. pertaining to a conjunction, or to two successive conjunctions of the same bodies.
- synonym — Biology. one of two or more scientific names applied to a single taxon.
- synovia — a lubricating fluid resembling the white of an egg, secreted by certain membranes, as those of the joints.
- syntagm — an element that enters into a syntagmatic relationship.
- synteny — the presence of two or more genes on the same chromosome
- synthia — the informal name for a self-replicating synthetic bacterium, created in 2010 from a version of the Mycoplasma mycoides genome and implanted into a DNA-free Mycoplasma capricolum bacterial shell. It is the world’s first artificial life form
- synthol — a synthetic motor fuel produced by heating, under pressure, hydrogen and carbon monoxide in the presence of a catalyst.
- synthon — a component of a molecule to be synthesized that plays an active role in synthesis
- syntony — the state or condition of being syntonic.
- syntype — a type specimen other than the holotype used in the description of a species.
- syrette — a small disposable syringe for administering a single dose of a drug
- syrians — of or relating to Syria or its inhabitants.
- syringa — mock orange (def 1).
- syringe — a small device consisting of a glass, metal, or hard rubber tube, narrowed at its outlet, and fitted with either a piston or a rubber bulb for drawing in a quantity of fluid or for ejecting fluid in a stream, for cleaning wounds, injecting fluids into the body, etc.
- syrphid — syrphid fly.
- syslisp — System language used in the implementation of Portable Standard Lisp. Mentioned in "The Evolution of Lisp", G.L. Steele et al, SIGPLAN Notices 28(3):231-270 (Mar 1993).
- sysplex — (operating system) An IBM term for communicating MVS systems. See also "Parallel Sysplex".
- systole — Physiology. the normal rhythmical contraction of the heart, during which the blood in the chambers is forced onward. Compare diastole.
- systyle — having an intercolumniation of two diameters.
- sysvile — Missed'em-five
- tricksy — Also, tricksome. given to tricks; mischievous; playful; prankish.
- unfussy — full of details, especially in excess: His writing is so fussy I lose the thread of the story.
- unnoisy — quiet