11-letter words containing a, s, y, m
- screamingly — If you say that something is, for example, screamingly funny or screamingly boring, you mean that it is extremely funny or extremely boring.
- scyphistoma — a stage in the life cycle of a jellyfish or other scyphozoan when it is fixed in place and reproduces asexually to produce free-swimming medusas.
- sea lamprey — a parasitic marine lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, that spawns in fresh water along both Atlantic coasts and in the Great Lakes, where it is responsible for losses of economically valuable fish.
- seamstressy — needlework
- sedimentary — of, relating to, or of the nature of sediment.
- 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
- semasiology — semantics, especially the study of semantic change.
- shaggy-mane — an edible inky-cap mushroom, Coprinus comatus, having an elongated, shaggy pileus.
- shamelessly — lacking any sense of shame: immodest; audacious.
- shameworthy — deserving shame; denoting something a person ought to be ashamed of
- sigmoidally — in the form of a sigmoid
- simi valley — a city in SW California.
- siphonogamy — a mode of pollination in which pollen tubes develop to facilitate the passage of male cells to eggs
- sky compass — a device for taking a bearing by means of polarized sunlight when the sun is invisible.
- sky marshal — an armed plainclothes federal marshal riding on an airliner to protect against skyjacking.
- slant rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- smart money — money invested or wagered by experienced investors or bettors.
- smiley face — a digital icon, a sequence of keyboard symbols, or a handwritten or printed equivalent, that serves to represent a facial expression, as :‐) for a smiling face or ;‐) for a winking face. Compare emoticon.
- smokey bear — an officer or officers of a state highway patrol.
- smoky topaz — smoky quartz used as a gemstone: not a true topaz.
- smooth away — to remove (difficulties, obstacles, etc.)
- sock cymbal — high-hat
- somatically — of the body; bodily; physical.
- spasmolysis — the relaxation or relief of muscle spasm.
- spasmolytic — of or noting spasmolysis.
- spermaphyte — the placenta of a plant
- sphygmogram — a tracing or diagram produced by a sphygmograph.
- star system — the practice of casting and promoting star performers for their ability to draw at the box office.
- stasimorphy — structural modification by arrested development
- stomatology — the science dealing with the mouth and its diseases.
- stomatotomy — incision of the cervix to facilitate labor.
- stormstayed — isolated or unable to travel because of adverse weather conditions, esp a snowstorm
- streamingly — in a streaming manner
- sub-company — subsidiary company.
- subassembly — a structural assembly, as of electronic or machine parts, forming part of a larger assembly.
- subdermally — in, located, or placed in a subdermal manner
- summability — the quality of being summable
- superfamily — a category of related families within an order or suborder.
- swamp buggy — an amphibious vehicle for use in and around swamps, typically having an automobile engine, four-wheel drive, large wheels with deep treads, and a raised chassis.
- syllabarium — syllabary.
- syllabogram — a written symbol representing a single syllable
- symmetalism — the use of two or more metals, such as gold and silver, combined in assigned proportions as a monetary standard.
- symmetrical — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- sympathetic — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- sympathique — pleasing or congenial
- sympathizer — a person who sympathizes.
- sympetalous — gamopetalous.
- symposiarch — the president, director, or master of a symposium.
- symptomatic — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
- synaptosome — a saclike structure at an isolated nerve ending