11-letter words containing a, s, n, y
- searchingly — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- seasonality — the state or quality of being seasonal or dependent on the seasons: the seasonality of Halloween costumes.
- secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- sedimentary — of, relating to, or of the nature of sediment.
- seditionary — of or relating to sedition; seditious.
- seismonasty — a nastic movement in response to shock, esp the rapid folding of the leaflets of the sensitive plant due to changes in turgor pressure caused by vibration
- senior year — final year of school or college
- sensorially — with respect to sensation; in a sensorial way
- seventh-day — designating certain Christian denominations that make Saturday their chief day of rest and religious observance: Seventh-Day Adventists.
- shaggy-mane — an edible inky-cap mushroom, Coprinus comatus, having an elongated, shaggy pileus.
- shanty town — ghetto, slum
- shcharansky — (Natan) Anatoly [nah-tahn an-uh-toh-lee;; Russian uh-nuh-taw-lyee] /nɑˈtɑn ˌæn əˈtoʊ li;; Russian ʌ nʌˈtɔ lyi/ (Show IPA), born 1948, Soviet mathematician and human-rights activist, in Israel since 1986.
- sibuyan sea — a sea in the Philippines S of Luzon and E of Mindanao: site of U.S.-Japan naval battle 1944.
- singability — to utter words or sounds in succession with musical modulations of the voice; vocalize melodically.
- singularity — the state, fact, or quality of being singular.
- siphonogamy — a mode of pollination in which pollen tubes develop to facilitate the passage of male cells to eggs
- sir anthony — Sir Anthony, Van Dyck, Sir Anthony.
- sir stanley — Arthur Penrhyn [pen-rin] /ˈpɛn rɪn/ (Show IPA), (Dean Stanley) 1815–81, English clergyman and author.
- skyscraping — of or like a skyscraper; very high: a skyscraping chimney.
- slant rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- slaveringly — in a slavering manner
- smart money — money invested or wagered by experienced investors or bettors.
- snakeblenny — any of several pricklebacks of the genus Lumpenus.
- snatchingly — in a snatching manner
- sneaky pete — a homemade or inferior liquor or wine.
- snobography — an account or description of snobs
- soothsaying — the practice or art of foretelling events.
- soybean oil — a pale-yellow oil derived from soybeans by expression or solvent extraction: used as a food and in the manufacture of soap, candles, inks, paints, varnishes, etc.
- spanish fly — Also called cantharides. a preparation of powdered blister beetles, especially the Spanish fly, used medicinally as a counterirritant, diuretic, and aphrodisiac.
- sparklingly — in a sparkling manner
- sphagnology — the study of sphagna
- spin a yarn — If you say that someone spins a yarn, you mean that they tell a story that is not true, often an interesting or imaginative one.
- spiny-rayed — spiny-finned.
- spontaneity — the state, quality, or fact of being spontaneous.
- spray paint — paint in aerosol form
- spray-paint — to cover, mark, draw, or write with spray paint.
- spreadingly — in a spreading manner
- squeakingly — in a squeaking manner
- stanley cup — a trophy emblematic since 1926 of the championship of the National Hockey League, composed of Canadian and U.S. professional teams.
- staphylinid — rove beetle.
- startlingly — creating sudden alarm, surprise, or wonder; astonishing.
- stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stipendiary — receiving a stipend; performing services for regular pay.
- stony coral — a true coral consisting of numerous anthozoan polyps embedded in the calcareous material that they secrete.
- stony-faced — having a rigid, expressionless face.
- streamingly — in a streaming manner
- stylization — to design in or cause to conform to a particular style, as of representation or treatment in art; conventionalize.
- sub-company — subsidiary company.
- subcontrary — one of two propositions that can both be true but cannot both be false.
- subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon