7-letter words containing ys
- lowboys — Plural form of lowboy.
- lysenko — Trofim Denisovich [truh-fyeem dyi-nyee-suh-vyich] /trʌˈfyim dyɪˈnyi sə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1976, Russian biologist and agronomist.
- lysogen — a bacterial cell or strain that has been infected with a temperate virus, one that does not cause destruction of the cell.
- magueys — Plural form of maguey.
- mandays — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy; based on a standard number of man-hours in a day of work.
- margays — Plural form of margay.
- medleys — Plural form of medley.
- mickeys — Plural form of mickey.
- middays — Plural form of midday.
- midways — Plural form of midway.
- mislays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mislay.
- mondays — on Mondays.
- monkeys — A small to medium-sized primate that typically has a long tail, most kinds of which live in trees in tropical countries.
- myspace — (Internet) One's profile on the MySpace website.
- mystery — anything that is kept secret or remains unexplained or unknown: the mysteries of nature.
- mystics — Plural form of mystic.
- mystify — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
- mystory — (philosophy) A pedagogical genre encouraging the exploration of history as an open-minded individual rather than an analytical historian following institutional norms.
- naysaid — Simple past tense and past participle of naysay.
- naysays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of naysay.
- nowdays — Eye dialect of nowadays.
- nystose — (carbohydrate) An oligosaccharide consisting of three fructose and one glucose residues.
- odyssey — (italics) an epic poem attributed to Homer, describing Odysseus's adventures in his ten-year attempt to return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.
- oocysts — Plural form of oocyst.
- ospreys — Plural form of osprey.
- otocyst — a statocyst.
- outlays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outlay.
- oxysalt — any salt of an oxyacid.
- oxysome — a group of molecules
- paysage — a landscape or representation of a landscape
- payslip — paper slip detailing wage payment
- paystub — A paystub is a piece of paper given to an employee when he or she is paid stating how much money has been earned and how much has been taken from that sum for things such as tax.
- phorcys — a sea god who fathered the Gorgons.
- phys ed — physical education.
- physics — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
- physio- — of or relating to nature or natural functions
- royster — roister.
- rysanek — Leonie [le-aw-nee] /ˈlɛ ɔˌni/ (Show IPA), 1926–98, Austrian soprano.
- ryswick — a town in SW Netherlands, near The Hague: Treaty of Ryswick 1697.
- shellys — a male or female given name.
- sherrys — a female given name, form of Charlotte.
- shyster — a lawyer who uses unprofessional or questionable methods.
- skysail — (in a square-rigged vessel) a light square sail next above the royal.
- skysurf — to engage in skysurfing or hang gliding.
- stachys — any plant of the genus Stachys, esp S. lanata (lamb's ears) and S. officinalis (betony)
- starsys — Convergent Technologies Operating System
- sundays — on Sundays.
- 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.