5-Letter Words Containing: YS__

• (in Ancient Greece) A long and open portico within the gymnasium.

• a Chinese green tea with twisted leaves

• Any crustacean of the family Mysidae.

• A system operator, especially someone who administers an online communications system or bulletin board.

• (WMF jargon) An administrator on a wiki.

• To work as a sysop.

• To give someone sysop privileges.

• An exceptionally fine and valuable fibre or cloth of ancient times. Originally used for fine flax and linens, the word was later extended to fine cottons, silks, and sea silk.

• The long fine silky filaments excreted by several mollusks (particularly Pinna nobilis) by which they attach themselves to the sea bed, and from which sea silk is manufactured.

• The stipe or stem of some fungi which are particularly thin and thread-like.

• a closed sac that develops abnormally in some body structure

• a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid)

• To burst or cut a cell or cell structure; to induce lysis.

• To break down molecularly into smaller molecules; to induce lysis.

• an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain

• recuperation in which the symptoms of an acute disease gradually subside

• (biochemistry) dissolution or destruction of cells such as blood cells or bacteria