10-letter words containing n, y, s
- staycation — a vacation spent at home or near home, doing enjoyable activities or visiting local attractions.
- stealingly — in a stealthy or elusive manner; by stealing
- stenotyper — a machine with a keyboard for recording speeches or dictation in phonetic shorthand
- sterlingly — in a sterling way or manner
- sticky bun — honey bun (def 1).
- sticky end — a single-stranded end of DNA or RNA having a nucleotide base sequence complementary to that of another strand, enabling the two strands to be connected by base pairing: produced in the laboratory with the use of restriction enzymes for genetic engineering purposes.
- stiflingly — suffocating; oppressively close: the stifling atmosphere of the cavern.
- stimulancy — an energizing, invigorating, or stimulating quality
- stintingly — in a stinting or sparing manner
- stone lily — a fossil crinoid.
- stone-lily — a fossil crinoid.
- story line — plot (def 2).
- strainedly — in a strained manner
- stravinsky — Igor Fëdorovich [ee-gawr fyaw-duh-roh-vich;; Russian ee-guh r fyaw-duh-ruh-vyich] /ˈi gɔr ˌfyɔ dəˈroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈi gər ˈfyɔ də rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1971, U.S. composer, born in Russia.
- strikingly — attractive; impressive: a scene of striking beauty.
- stringency — stringent character or condition: the stringency of poverty.
- strivingly — in a striving manner
- strychnine — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.
- stubbornly — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
- stunningly — causing, capable of causing, or liable to cause astonishment, bewilderment, or a loss of consciousness or strength: a stunning blow.
- stupefying — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- stuyvesant — Peter, 1592–1672, Dutch colonial administrator in the Americas: last governor of New Netherlands 1646–64.
- stylophone — a type of battery-powered electronic instrument played with a steel-tipped penlike stylus
- subcompany — subsidiary company.
- subdeanery — the position or office of a subdean
- subeconomy — an economy within another economy
- subpotency — a condition of reduced potency, as of a medication.
- succinctly — Archaic. drawn up, as by a girdle. close-fitting. encircled, as by a girdle.
- sulfanilyl — containing the sulfanilyl group.
- sun valley — a village in S central Idaho: winter resort.
- sunny side — the part upon which sunlight falls: the sunny side of the house.
- supernanny — an expert who advises parents on how to deal with badly-behaved children
- suppliancy — suppliance2 .
- supplyment — the act of supplying; replenishment
- surveyance — survey; inspection; superintendence
- suspensory — a supporting bandage, muscle, ligament, etc.
- suzerainty — the position or authority of a suzerain.
- swimmingly — without difficulty; with great success; effortlessly: She passed the exam swimmingly.
- sycophancy — self-seeking or servile flattery.
- sylphidine — resembling a sylph
- symbionese — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Symbionese Liberation Army or its adherents.
- symmetrian — an advocate of symmetry
- symphonion — a 19th-century mechanical music player
- symphonist — a composer who writes symphonies.
- symphonize — to play or sound together harmoniously.
- synaeresis — the contraction of two syllables or two vowels into one, especially the contraction of two vowels so as to form a diphthong.
- synaloepha — the blending of two successive vowels into one, especially the coalescence of a vowel at the end of one word with a vowel at the beginning of the next.
- synandrium — a peculiar fusion of stamens
- synandrous — with united stamens
- synanthous — relating to plants whose leaves and flowers expand simultaneously