10-letter words containing l, o, s, y
- slavocracy — the rule or domination of slaveholders: the slavocracy of the old plantations.
- slipsloppy — wet and sloppy
- sloppy joe — greasy spoon.
- smoky hill — a river flowing E from E Colorado to the Republican River in central Kansas. 540 miles (870 km) long.
- snobbishly — of, relating to, or characteristic of a snob: snobbish ideas about rank.
- societally — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- solar myth — a myth explaining or allegorizing the origin or movement of the sun
- solar year — year (def 4b).
- solar-year — a period of 365 or 366 days, in the Gregorian calendar, divided into 12 calendar months, now reckoned as beginning Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31 (calendar year or civil year) Compare common year, leap year.
- solenocyte — a type of long, narrow, flagellated cell that functions in excretion of nitrogenous wastes and occurs in a variety of organisms, including certain annelids and mollusks.
- solidarily — characterized by or involving community of responsibilities and interests.
- solidarity — union or fellowship arising from common responsibilities and interests, as between members of a group or between classes, peoples, etc.: to promote solidarity among union members.
- solitarily — alone; without companions; unattended: a solitary passer-by.
- solubility — the quality or property of being soluble; relative capability of being dissolved.
- solvolysis — a chemical reaction in which the solvent and solute interact; lyolysis.
- solvolytic — relating to solvolysis
- somatology — the branch of anthropology that deals with human physical characteristics.
- somniloquy — the act of talking in one's sleep
- song cycle — a group of art songs that are usually all by the same poet and composer and have a unifying subject or idea.
- songlessly — in a songless manner
- sonorously — giving out or capable of giving out a sound, especially a deep, resonant sound, as a thing or place: a sonorous cavern.
- soothingly — that soothes: a soothing voice.
- sooty mold — Plant Pathology. a disease of plants, characterized by a black, sooty growth covering the affected parts, caused by any of several fungi.
- southernly — southerly.
- soya flour — flour made from soya beans
- speciously — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
- speleology — the exploration and study of caves.
- splay-foot — a broad, flat foot, especially one turned outward.
- spondylous — relating to a vertebra or vertebrae
- spongology — the study of sponges
- sporophyll — a modified leaf that bears sporangia.
- sportingly — engaging in, disposed to, or interested in open-air or athletic sports: a rugged, sporting man.
- spoylefull — plundering
- spuriously — not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
- stable boy — A stable boy is a young man who works in a stable looking after the horses.
- staphyloma — a condition in which the sclera or cornea of the eye projects outwards due to inflammation
- statolatry — the act or practice of idolizing the state
- stay loose — free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
- stereology — a branch of science dealing with the determination of the three-dimensional structure of objects based on two-dimensional views of them.
- stichology — metrical theory or the science of poetic metres
- stillatory — a still or distillery where liquid is distilled
- stone lily — a fossil crinoid.
- stone-lily — a fossil crinoid.
- storiology — the study of the origins and development of folk narratives and legends
- stormfully — in a stormful manner
- story line — plot (def 2).
- storyville — a red-light district of New Orleans known as a wellspring of jazz before World War I.
- stubbornly — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
- studiously — disposed or given to diligent study: a studious boy.
- stylograph — a fountain pen in which the writing point is a fine, hollow tube instead of a nib.