10-letter words containing n, y, s
- autolysins — Plural form of autolysin.
- autonymous — (of a word or words) appearing in its own form or directly quoted
- autopsying — Present participle of autopsy.
- baby bonus — family allowance
- baby sling — a pouch supported by straps at the shoulder or neck, used to carry small babies on one's chest
- babylonish — Babylonian.
- backronyms — Plural form of backronym.
- blindstory — a windowless story
- bonus army — a group of 12,000 World War I veterans who massed in Washington, D.C., the summer of 1932 to induce Congress to appropriate moneys for the payment of bonus certificates granted in 1924.
- bonus baby — an athlete who is paid a substantial bonus to sign his or her first professional contract.
- boston ivy — a climbing vine (Parthenocissus tricuspidata) of the grape family, native to Japan and China, having shield-shaped leaves and purple berries: often grown to cover walls
- brown eyes — eyes with brown irises
- bustlingly — in a bustling manner
- by oneself — be oneself, to be in one's normal state of mind or physical condition. to be unaffected and sincere: One makes more friends by being oneself than by putting on airs.
- by-numbers — done in an uninspired, simplistic, or formulaic way
- byssinosis — a lung disease caused by prolonged inhalation of fibre dust in textile factories
- canal rays — rays of positive ions passing through openings in the cathode of a vacuum tube
- candyfloss — Candyfloss is a large pink or white mass of sugar threads that is eaten from a stick. It is sold at fairs or other outdoor events.
- candytufts — Plural form of candytuft.
- canorously — In a canorous manner.
- cash money — cash, as distinguished from a check or money order.
- castellany — the office or position of a castellan
- catalysing — Present participle of catalyse.
- cessionary — a person to whom something is transferred; assignee; grantee
- chelyuskin — Capenorthernmost point of Asia, on the Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia
- chemonasty — the nastic movement of a plant in response to a chemical stimulus
- chernovtsy — a city in Ukraine on the Prut River: formerly under Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Romanian rule; part of the Soviet Union (1947–91). Pop: 237 000 (2005 est)
- chrysophan — a glucoside that is bitter to the taste and yellow in colour
- clannishly — In a clannish manner.
- clashingly — In a clashing manner.
- clay stone — argillite.
- claystones — argillite.
- clonotypes — Plural form of clonotype.
- clownishly — In a clownish, undignified, or foolish manner; absurdly, ridiculously.
- cnidocysts — a nematocyst.
- cockneyism — a characteristic of speech or custom peculiar to cockneys
- coenocytes — Plural form of coenocyte.
- colocynths — Plural form of colocynth.
- conclusory — of, relating to, or involving an end or conclusion
- condensery — a factory where condensed milk is produced
- condylomas — Plural form of condyloma.
- config.sys — (operating system) A text file containing special system configuration commands, found in the root directory on an MS-DOS computer, typically on drive C (the hard disk). It is read by MS-DOS at boot time, after the setup has been read from CMOS RAM and before running AUTOEXEC.BAT. It can be modified by the user. Some example commands which CONFIG.SYS might contain are: DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /testmem:off Load the extended memory manager. DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM Load the expanded memory manager. BUFFERS=10,0 Specify memory for disk buffers. FILES=70 Set the number of files that can be open at once. DOS=UMB DOS is located in UppeMemoryBlock. LASTDRIVE=Z Disk drives are A: to Z:. FCBS=16,0 Set the number of file control blocks. DEVICEHIGH /L:1,12048 =C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE Report the DOS version to older programs. DOS=HIGH DOS should maintain a link to UMB. COUNTRY=358,437 C:\DOS\COUNTRY.SYS Set the country code for some programs. STACKS=9,256 Set dynamic stacks for hardware control. SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS\ /E:1024 /p Set the location of the command interpreter.
- confusably — In a confusable way; such that they may be confused.
- confusedly — to perplex or bewilder: The flood of questions confused me.
- consectary — a consequence or conclusion
- consignify — to signify (something) when understood or interpreted in combination with something else
- consistory — the court of a diocese (other than Canterbury) administering ecclesiastical law
- consolably — In an consolable manner.
- consonancy — consonance (sense 1)
- conspiracy — Conspiracy is the secret planning by a group of people to do something illegal.