11-letter words containing o, n, l, y
- unscholarly — not befitting a scholar or learned person
- unsociality — the quality of being unsocial
- unsoldierly — not befitting a soldier
- unstoppably — that cannot be stopped or surpassed; unbeatable: an unstoppable ball team.
- untimeously — untimely
- uranoplasty — a surgical operation to correct a defect of the palate or roof of the mouth
- vaccinology — the science of vaccine development.
- valinomycin — a cyclic, peptide antibiotic, C 54 H 90 N 6 O 18 , produced by the bacterium Streptomyces fulvissimus; used experimentally to transport potassium across membranes.
- vapouringly — in a boastful manner
- venereology — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of venereal, or sexually transmitted, disease.
- ventilatory — of, having, or pertaining to ventilation
- ventriloquy — the art or practice of speaking, with little or no lip movement, in such a manner that the voice does not appear to come from the speaker but from another source, as from a wooden dummy.
- vinyl group — the univalent group C 3 H 3 , derived from ethylene.
- volcanicity — of or relating to a volcano: a volcanic eruption.
- volcanology — the scientific study of volcanoes and volcanic phenomena.
- volitionary — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
- voluntarily — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
- vulcanology — volcanology.
- welcomingly — In a welcoming manner.
- wonderfully — excellent; great; marvelous: We all had a wonderful weekend.
- wonderingly — In a wondering manner; with wonderment.
- xanthophyll — lutein (def 1).
- xenobiology — The speculative biology of extraterrestrial life forms.
- xylophonist — A person who plays or performs with the xylophone.
- yellow line — A yellow line is a narrow yellow line painted at the edge of a road to warn drivers that parking is not allowed there, or is only allowed at certain times.
- yellow pine — any of several North American pines yielding a strong, yellowish wood.
- yellow rain — small, powdery yellow deposits containing the fungal toxin tricothecene, found on leaves and other surfaces in Southeast Asia and Afghanistan in the early 1980s and alleged by some to be a chemical weapon disseminated by air but claimed by others to be pollen-containing bee excrement contaminated by fungus.
- yellowfinch — any of several tropical American finches of the genus Sicalis, most of which are bright yellow in color.
- yellowknife — a territory of Canada lying N of 60 degrees N and extending E from the Yukon Territory to Nunavut. 519,732 sq. mi. (1,346,106 sq. km) Capital: Yellowknife.
- yellowshins — Yellowlegs.
- yellowstone — a river flowing from NW Wyoming through Yellowstone Lake and NE through Montana into the Missouri River in W North Dakota. 671 miles (1080 km) long.
- yield point — the stress at which an elastic material under increasing stress ceases to behave elastically; under conditions of tensile strength the elongation is no longer proportional to the increase in stress
- yorba linda — a city in SW California.
- young adult — a teenager (used especially by publishers and librarians).
- young blood — youthful people.
- young italy — a political society in Italy advocating the unification of Italy, founded by Mazzini in 1831 to replace the Carbonari.
- yugoslavian — formerly, a federal republic in S Europe: since 1992 comprised of Serbia and Montenegro; disbanded into independent countries in 2006. 39,449 sq. mi. (102,173 sq. km). Capital: Belgrade.
- zanthoxylum — any rutaceous shrub or tree of the genus Zanthoxylum, of temperate and subtropical E Asia and North America: includes the prickly ash and the West Indian yellowwood (or satinwood)