11-letter words containing a, s, n, y
- pachysandra — any plant of the genus Pachysandra, as the Allegheny spurge or Japanese spurge, the leaves of which grow in a rounded clump, widely used as a ground cover in the U.S.
- paint spray — paint bought in a special can which you spray on a surface by pressing a button on the top of the can
- palm sunday — the Sunday before Easter, celebrated in commemoration of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
- panpsychism — a theory that all matter has some form of consciousness.
- panpsychist — someone who believes that all matter has an element of consciousness
- parasensory — extrasensory.
- patsy cline — Patsy (Virginia Patterson Hensley) 1932–63, U.S. country singer.
- pay station — a machine where you can pay for parking, as in a car park, etc
- pentagynous — (of plants) belonging to the order Pentagynia, characterized by the presence of five styles or pistils
- pentastylos — a pentastyle building, as a classical temple.
- person-year — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on an ideal amount of work done by one person in a year consisting of a standard number of person-days.
- personality — the visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others: He has a pleasing personality.
- phalanstery — the buildings occupied by a phalanx. the community itself.
- pharyngitis — inflammation of the mucous membrane of the pharynx; sore throat.
- physiciancy — the position, job, or office of physician
- playfulness — full of play or fun; sportive; frolicsome.
- playstation — (games, hardware) The leading family of games consoles, from Sony Corporation consisting of the original Playstation (PS1) and the Playstation 2 (PS2). The basic Playstations consist of a small box containing the processor and a DVD reader, with video outputs to connect to a TV, sockets for two game controllers, and a socket for one or two memory cards. The PS2 also has USB sockets. The PS2 can run PS1 software because the PS2's I/O processor is the same as the PS1's CPU.
- polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
- polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
- postnatally — after birth, following a birth
- predynastic — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the first dynasty of a nation, especially the period in Egypt before c3200 b.c.
- presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
- present-day — current; modern: present-day techniques; present-day English.
- presynaptic — being or occurring on the transmitting end of a discharge across a synapse.
- prison yard — a piece of enclosed ground attached to a prison, where prisoners may take exercise at certain times
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- psychoanal. — psychoanalysis
- psychomancy — occult communication between souls or with spirits.
- questionary — a questionnaire.
- ravishingly — extremely beautiful or attractive; enchanting; entrancing.
- ray casting — (graphics) A simplified form of ray tracing. A ray is fired from each pixel in the view plane, and information is accumulated from all the voxels in the volume data it intersects. Each voxel is first given an associated colour and opacity. The ray is sampled at a fixed number of evenly spaced locations and the colour and opacity are trilinearly interpolated from the eight nearest voxels. These are then composed linearly back to front to give a single colour for the pixel. Ray casting was invented by John Carmack for the game Wolfenstein 3D. It is faster and lower quality than ray tracing, and is ideal for interactive applications. It parallelises well, although random access is needed to the voxels.
- resultantly — that results; following as a result or consequence.
- revisionary — the act or work of revising.
- rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
- safety zone — A safety zone is a place in the middle of a road crossing where you can wait before you cross the other half of the road.
- saginaw bay — an arm of Lake Huron, off the E coast of Michigan. 60 miles (97 km) long.
- saint's day — a day of celebration commemorating a particular saint.
- salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
- sand myrtle — an evergreen shrub, Leiophyllum buxifolium, of the heath family, native to the eastern U.S., having simple, leathery leaves and clusters of white or pink flowers.
- sarcenchyme — the connective tissue of some sponges
- satanophany — a manifestation or incarnation of Satan; demonic possession
- saturninity — sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn.
- say amen to — to express strong approval of or support for (an assertion, hope, etc)
- scamblingly — in a scambling, noisy, or intrusive manner
- scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- scent spray — perfume that comes in an aerosol bottle
- schenectady — a city in E New York, on the Mohawk River.
- scrapepenny — a person who is stingy; a miser
- scrawlingly — in a scrawling manner
- screamingly — If you say that something is, for example, screamingly funny or screamingly boring, you mean that it is extremely funny or extremely boring.