11-letter words containing m, a, s, e, y
- nurserymaid — Nursemaid.
- oxygen mask — a masklike device placed or worn over the nose and mouth when inhaling supplementary oxygen from an attached tank.
- oyster farm — a place where oyster beds are kept.
- oysterwoman — a woman who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- poetry slam — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
- polyspermia — the secretion of an excessive amount of semen.
- preassembly — an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose: The principal will speak to all the students at Friday's assembly.
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- psammophyte — a plant that grows in sand or sandy soil.
- rallymaster — an organizer and director of an automobile rally.
- ray's bream — a species of bream Brama brama, common in southern European waters
- rose family — the plant family Rosaceae, characterized by trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants having compound or simple leaves with stipules, flowers typically with five sepals and five petals, and fruit in a variety of forms, many of which are fleshy and edible, and including the almond, apple, apricot, blackberry, cherry, cinquefoil, hawthorn, peach, pear, plum, raspberry, rose, spirea, and strawberry.
- safety film — Photography. a film having a nonflammable base of triacetate cellulose.
- safety lamp — a miner's lamp in which the flame is protected by wire gauze to prevent the immediate ignition of explosive gases.
- salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
- sand myrtle — an evergreen shrub, Leiophyllum buxifolium, of the heath family, native to the eastern U.S., having simple, leathery leaves and clusters of white or pink flowers.
- sarcenchyme — the connective tissue of some sponges
- say amen to — to express strong approval of or support for (an assertion, hope, etc)
- screamingly — If you say that something is, for example, screamingly funny or screamingly boring, you mean that it is extremely funny or extremely boring.
- 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
- simi valley — a city in SW California.
- 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.
- spermaphyte — the placenta of a plant
- star system — the practice of casting and promoting star performers for their ability to draw at the box office.
- stormstayed — isolated or unable to travel because of adverse weather conditions, esp a snowstorm
- streamingly — in a streaming manner
- 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
- superfamily — a category of related families within an order or suborder.
- 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.
- synaptosome — a saclike structure at an isolated nerve ending
- systematics — the study of systems or of classification.
- systematise — to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.
- systematism — the practice of systematizing.
- systematist — a person who constructs a system.