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11-letter words containing l, a, y, o, r

  • stony coral — a true coral consisting of numerous anthozoan polyps embedded in the calcareous material that they secrete.
  • storability — capable of being stored for considerable time without loss of freshness or usability.
  • stroke play — medal play.
  • stylography — the art of writing, tracing, drawing, etc., with a style.
  • syllabogram — a written symbol representing a single syllable
  • tachysterol — an isomer of ergosterol, C28H44O, formed during the production of calciferol by the irradiation of ergosterol
  • taylorville — a town in central Illinois.
  • tea trolley — a trolley from which tea is served
  • temporality — temporal character or nature; temporariness.
  • temporarily — lasting, existing, serving, or effective for a time only; not permanent: a temporary need; a temporary job.
  • tetraploidy — having a chromosome number that is four times the basic or haploid number.
  • theriolatry — the worship of theriomorphic deities or deities that are a combination of human and animal forms
  • thermopylae — a pass in E Greece, between the cliffs of Mt. Oeta and the Gulf of Lamia: Persian defeat of the Spartans 480 b.c.
  • trimodality — (of a distribution) having three modes.
  • trolley car — a streetcar propelled electrically by current taken by means of a trolley from a conducting wire strung overhead or running beneath a slot between the tracks.
  • trophically — of or relating to nutrition; concerned in nutritive processes.
  • tropicality — pertaining to, characteristic of, occurring in, or inhabiting the tropics, especially the humid tropics: tropical flowers.
  • unfavorably — not favorable; contrary; adverse: an unfavorable wind.
  • unignorably — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
  • unmemorably — in a way that is not memorable
  • unscholarly — not befitting a scholar or learned person
  • uranoplasty — a surgical operation to correct a defect of the palate or roof of the mouth
  • vacillatory — marked by or displaying vacillation: a vacillatory policy of action.
  • valedictory — bidding goodbye; saying farewell: a valedictory speech.
  • vapouringly — in a boastful manner
  • varley loop — a device containing a Wheatstone bridge, for comparing resistances and for locating faults in circuits.
  • vectorially — Mathematics. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def 4). such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system. any generalization of the above quantities.
  • ventilatory — of, having, or pertaining to ventilation
  • veraciously — habitually speaking the truth; truthful; honest: a veracious witness.
  • vicariously — performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment.
  • viceroyalty — the dignity, office, or period of office of a viceroy.
  • volitionary — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
  • voluntarily — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
  • voraciously — craving or consuming large quantities of food: a voracious appetite.
  • wearisomely — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
  • woolly bear — the caterpillar of any of several moths, as a tiger moth, having a dense coat of woolly hairs.
  • workability — practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.
  • world-weary — weary of the world; bored with existence, material pleasures, etc.
  • xylographed — Simple past tense and past participle of xylograph.
  • xylographer — A person who makes xylographs.
  • xylographic — Of or pertaining to xylographs.
  • yard of ale — a trumpet-shaped glass about 3 feet (1 meter) long with a bulb at the closed end, for serving ale or beer.
  • yard-of-ale — a trumpet-shaped glass about 3 feet (1 meter) long with a bulb at the closed end, for serving ale or beer.
  • yellow card — Soccer. a yellow card shown by the referee to a player being cautioned for a violation.
  • yellow race — the Mongoloid group of mankind
  • yellow rain — small, powdery yellow deposits containing the fungal toxin tricothecene, found on leaves and other surfaces in Southeast Asia and Afghanistan in the early 1980s and alleged by some to be a chemical weapon disseminated by air but claimed by others to be pollen-containing bee excrement contaminated by fungus.
  • yellow-card — Soccer. a yellow card shown by the referee to a player being cautioned for a violation.
  • yorba linda — a city in SW California.
  • yoshkar-ola — a city in and the capital of the Mari Autonomous Republic, in the Russian Federation in Europe, NW of Kazan.
  • your actual — (intensifier)
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