Index of English words, starting with "sy"

(1) - Syncretist (n.) an adherent of George Calixtus and other Germans of the seventeenth century, who sought to unite or reconcile the Protestant sects with each other and with the Roman Catholics, and thus occasioned a long and violent controversy in the Lutheran church.
(2) - Syncretist (n.) One who attempts to unite principles or parties which are irreconcilably at variance;

(1) - Syncytium (n.) The ectoderm of a sponge.
(2) - Syncytium (n.) Tissue in which the cell or partition walls are wholly wanting and the cell bodies fused together, so that the tissue consists of a continuous mass of protoplasm in which nuclei are imbedded, as in ordinary striped muscle.