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7-letter words that end in ly

  • scarily — in a scary or frightening manner
  • schallyAndrew Victor, born 1926, U.S. physiologist, born in Poland: Nobel prize 1977.
  • scrawly — written or drawn awkwardly or carelessly.
  • shadfly — mayfly (def 1).
  • shadily — abounding in shade; shaded: shady paths.
  • shakily — tending to shake or tremble.
  • shambly — characterized by awkward, lazy, or unsteady movements, esp in walking
  • shankly — Bill. 1913–81, Scottish footballer and manager of Liverpool FC (1959–74)
  • shapely — having a pleasing shape, especially with reference to a woman's figure.
  • sharply — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
  • sheerly — transparently thin; diaphanous, as some fabrics: sheer stockings.
  • shingly — consisting of or covered with shingle.
  • shinily — in a shiny manner
  • shively — a city in N Kentucky, near Louisville.
  • shoggly — unsteady; shaky
  • shoofly — a child's rocker having a seat supported between two boards cut and painted to resemble animals.
  • shortly — in a short time; soon.
  • showily — in a showy manner.
  • shrilly — high-pitched and piercing in sound quality: a shrill cry.
  • sightly — pleasing to the sight; attractive; comely.
  • sillily — weak-minded or lacking good sense; stupid or foolish: a silly writer.
  • slackly — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
  • slickly — smooth and glossy; sleek.
  • smartly — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
  • smickly — amorously
  • snidely — derogatory in a nasty, insinuating manner: snide remarks about his boss.
  • snively — characterized by or given to sniveling.
  • soberly — not intoxicated or drunk.
  • solidly — having three dimensions (length, breadth, and thickness), as a geometrical body or figure.
  • sorrily — feeling regret, compunction, sympathy, pity, etc.: to be sorry to leave one's friends; to be sorry for a remark; to be sorry for someone in trouble.
  • soundly — free from injury, damage, defect, disease, etc.; in good condition; healthy; robust: a sound heart; a sound mind.
  • spangly — Spangly clothes are decorated with a lot of small shiny objects.
  • sparkly — tending to sparkle; animated; lively: a row of sparkly cheerleaders.
  • spindly — long or tall, thin, and usually frail: The colt wobbled on its spindly legs.
  • sprawly — tending to sprawl; straggly: The colt's legs were long and sprawly.
  • squally — characterized by squalls.
  • staidly — of settled or sedate character; not flighty or capricious.
  • starkly — sheer, utter, downright, or complete: stark madness.
  • stately — majestic; imposing in magnificence, elegance, etc.: a stately home.
  • steeply — having an almost vertical slope or pitch, or a relatively high gradient, as a hill, an ascent, stairs, etc.
  • sternly — firm, strict, or uncompromising: stern discipline.
  • stiffly — rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar.
  • stonily — full of or abounding in stones or rock: a stony beach.
  • stoutly — bulky in figure; heavily built; corpulent; thickset; fat: She is getting too stout for her dresses. Synonyms: big, rotund, stocky, portly, fleshy. Antonyms: thin, lean, slender, slim; skinny, scrawny.
  • stubbly — Usually, stubbles. the stumps of grain and other stalks left in the ground when the crop is cut.
  • stumbly — tending to stumble
  • suavely — (of persons or their manner, speech, etc.) smoothly agreeable or polite; agreeably or blandly urbane.
  • sulkily — marked by or given to sulking; sullen.
  • surlily — churlishly rude or bad-tempered: a surly waiter. Synonyms: sullen, uncivil, brusque, irascible, splenetic, choleric, cross; grumpy, grouchy, crabby.
  • sweetly — having the taste or flavor characteristic of sugar, honey, etc.
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