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