11-letter words containing l, y, c
- splenectomy — excision or removal of the spleen.
- spondylitic — inflammation of the vertebrae.
- stanley cup — a trophy emblematic since 1926 of the championship of the National Hockey League, composed of Canadian and U.S. professional teams.
- stick style — a style in mid-Victorian American wooden architecture characterized by the use of vertical board siding with battens or grids of boards over horizontal siding to express the framing beneath.
- stony coral — a true coral consisting of numerous anthozoan polyps embedded in the calcareous material that they secrete.
- strathclyde — a region in SW Scotland. 5300 sq. mi. (13,727 sq. km).
- stylistical — of or relating to style.
- subclassify — to arrange in subclasses.
- subliteracy — below average literacy
- succulently — full of juice; juicy.
- suicidology — the study of the causes and prevention of suicide.
- suspectedly — so as to arouse suspicion
- syllabicate — to syllabify.
- syllabicity — the state of being syllabic; the ability to form a syllable.
- syllogistic — of or relating to a syllogism.
- sylvic acid — abietic acid.
- symbolistic — a person who uses symbols or symbolism.
- symmetrical — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- syndactylus — a person having united or webbed fingers or toes.
- syndicalism — a form or development of trade unionism, originating in France, that aims at the possession of the means of production and distribution, and ultimately at the control of society, by federated bodies of industrial workers, and that seeks to realize its purposes through general strikes, terrorism, sabotage, etc.
- synodically — by the authority of a synod
- synoecology — the science of relationships between species
- synonymical — a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the language, as happy, joyful, elated. A dictionary of synonyms and antonyms (or opposites), such as Thesaurus.com, is called a thesaurus.
- syntactical — of or relating to syntax: syntactic errors in English; the syntactic rules for computer source code.
- synthetical — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
- tachina fly — any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Tachinidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars, beetles, and other insects.
- tachysterol — an isomer of ergosterol, C28H44O, formed during the production of calciferol by the irradiation of ergosterol
- tally clerk — a person, esp on a wharf or dock or in an airport, who checks the count of goods being loaded or unloaded
- technically — belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like: technical skill.
- telodynamic — pertaining to the transmission of mechanical power over considerable distances, as by means of endless cables on pulleys.
- temple city — a town in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- tenaciously — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
- term policy — a policy whose period of coverage is in excess of one year, usually paying a reduced premium rate, as in fire insurance.
- terry-cloth — the loop formed by the pile of a fabric when left uncut.
- tetracyclic — (of a compound) containing four rings in its molecular structure
- tetradactyl — a four-toed animal
- thermically — in a thermic manner
- titanically — (initial capital letter) of, relating to, or characteristic of the Titans.
- tracklaying — (of a vehicle) having an endless jointed metal band around the wheels
- trade cycle — the recurrent fluctuation between boom and depression in the economic activity of a capitalist country
- traducingly — in a traducing manner
- triadically — characteristic of a triad
- trisyllabic — a word of three syllables, as pendulum.
- troglodytic — a prehistoric cave dweller.
- 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.
- truculently — fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
- typicalness — of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen.
- typological — the doctrine or study of types or prefigurative symbols, especially in scriptural literature.