11-letter words containing e, l, y, s
- breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
- brooklynese — the speech, especially the pronunciation, thought to be characteristic of a person coming from New York City, especially Brooklyn.
- bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
- burlesquely — in a burlesque manner
- bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- busy lizzie — a balsaminaceous plant, Impatiens balsamina, that has pink, red, or white flowers and is often grown as a pot plant
- by yourself — If you are by yourself, you are alone.
- byelorussia — Official name Belarus. Formerly White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. a republic in E Europe, N of Ukraine: formerly a part of the Soviet Union. 80,154 sq. mi. (207,600 sq. km). Capital: Minsk.
- cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
- carboxylase — any enzyme that catalyses the release of carbon dioxide from certain acids
- caressingly — In a caressing manner; soothingly.
- caressively — caressingly
- casselberry — a city in central Florida.
- causatively — acting as a cause; producing (often followed by of): a causative agency; an event causative of war.
- causelessly — in a manner without cause or reason
- cavernously — In a cavernous manner; like a cavern.
- ceaselessly — without stop or pause; unending; incessant.
- celery salt — a seasoning made of salt and ground celery seed
- celestially — pertaining to the sky or visible heaven, or to the universe beyond the earth’s atmosphere, as in celestial body.
- ceylon moss — a red East Indian seaweed, Gracilaria lichenoides, from which agar is made
- charmlessly — in a charmless manner
- cheerlessly — In a cheerless manner.
- chelyabinsk — an industrial city in SW Russia; in 2013 a large meteor exploded in an airburst over the city's surrounding district. Pop: 1 067 000 (2005 est)
- chessplayer — a player of chess
- chlamydeous — (of plants) relating to or possessing sepals and petals
- cholecystic — gallbladder.
- chrysalides — the hard-shelled pupa of a moth or butterfly; an obtect pupa.
- chrysalises — Plural form of chrysalis.
- chrysoberyl — a rare very hard greenish-yellow mineral consisting of beryllium aluminate in orthorhombic crystalline form and occurring in coarse granite: used as a gemstone in the form of cat's eye and alexandrite. Formula: BeAl2O4
- chrysomelid — a vibrantly-coloured beetle belonging to the family Chrysomelidae that eats the leaves of plants
- chyliferous — containing chyle
- cleistogamy — self-pollination and fertilization of an unopened flower, as in the flowers of the violet produced in summer
- cloudlessly — Without clouds.
- cluster fly — a dipterous fly, Pollenia rudis, that tends to gather in large numbers in attics in the autumn: family Calliphoridae. The larvae are parasitic in earthworms
- coelioscopy — a medical procedure for examining the abdomen
- collusively — in a collusive manner
- colorlessly — In a colorless manner.
- commensally — In a commensal manner.
- compositely — In a composite manner.
- confessedly — by admission or confession; avowedly
- copolyester — A polyester that has been modified by the addition of other chemicals.
- copyholders — Plural form of copyholder.
- corrosively — In a corrosive manner.
- cosmetology — the work of beauty therapists, including hairdressing, facials, manicures, etc
- countlessly — in a countless manner
- courteously — having or showing good manners; polite.
- cow parsley — a common Eurasian umbelliferous hedgerow plant, Anthriscus sylvestris, having umbrella-shaped clusters of white flowers
- credulously — In a credulous manner; believably.
- crystal set — an early form of radio receiver having a crystal detector to demodulate the radio signals but no amplifier, therefore requiring earphones
- crystal tea — a bog shrub, Ledum palustre, of the heath family, found from the North Temperate Zone to the Arctic Circle, having leaves that are rust-colored and hairy beneath with rolled margins, and dense clusters of white flowers.