8-letter words starting with sy
- 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
- synaphea — a continuity of rhythm throughout a poem
- synapses — 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.
- synapsid — a fossil reptile (of the subclass Synapsida) that exhibits some mammal-like characteristics of the skull
- synapsis — Also called syndesis. Cell Biology. the pairing of homologous chromosomes, one from each parent, during early meiosis.
- synaptic — Also called syndesis. Cell Biology. the pairing of homologous chromosomes, one from each parent, during early meiosis.
- synarchy — joint rule
- synastry — the comparison of two or more natal charts in order to analyze or forecast the interaction of the individuals involved.
- synaxary — synaxarion.
- synching — synchronization: The picture and the soundtrack were out of sync.
- synchro- — indicating synchronization
- syncline — a synclinal fold.
- syncopal — Grammar. the contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in the reduction of never to ne'er.
- syncopic — Grammar. the contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in the reduction of never to ne'er.
- syncytia — a multinucleate mass of cytoplasm that is not separated into cells.
- syndesis — synapsis (def 1).
- syndetic — serving to unite or connect; connective; copulative.
- syndeton — a syndetic construction
- syndical — of or relating to a union of persons engaged in a particular trade.
- syndrome — Pathology, Psychiatry. a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease, or the like.
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