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11-letter words containing o, y, s

  • asphyxiator — to produce asphyxia in.
  • assiduously — constant; unremitting: assiduous reading.
  • assyriology — the study of the culture, history, and archaeological remains of ancient Assyria
  • astral body — Astronomy. a star, planet, comet, or other heavenly body.
  • astrobotany — the branch of botany that investigates the possibility that plants grow on other planets
  • astrocytoma — a tumour of the nervous system which originates in and consists mainly of astrocytes
  • astrography — The art of describing or delineating the stars; a description or mapping of the heavens.
  • astrophyton — The giant basket star, an early Mesozoic invertebrate.
  • asyncronous — (spelling)   It's spelled "asynchronous".
  • at any cost — If you say that something must be done at any cost, you are emphasizing that it must be done, even if this requires a lot of effort or money.
  • atrociously — extremely or shockingly wicked, cruel, or brutal: an atrocious crime.
  • attophysics — the physics of structures and artefacts with dimensions in the attometre range or of devices, such as lasers, capable of producing pulses with a duration measured in attoseconds
  • attorneyism — the slyness and cleverness associated with attorneys
  • audaciously — extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless: an audacious explorer.
  • audiotypist — a typist trained to type from a dictating machine
  • austromancy — Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds or cloud formations.
  • autosomally — in the manner of an autosome
  • baby shower — gift-giving party for unborn baby
  • babyboomers — Plural form of babyboomer.
  • babylonians — of or relating to Babylon or Babylonia.
  • barbarously — uncivilized; wild; savage; crude.
  • baryshnikov — Mikhail. born 1948, Soviet-born ballet dancer, who defected (1974) to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet: director (1980–90) of the American Ballet Theatre
  • base memory — (hardware, jargon)   The lowest 640 kilobytes of memory in an IBM PC-compatible computer running MS-DOS. Other PC operating systems can usually compensate and "ignore" the fact that there is a 640K limit to base memory. This was put in place because the original CPU - the Intel 8088 - could only access one megabyte of memory, and IBM wanted to reserve the upper 384KB for device drivers. The high memory area (HMA) lies above 640KB and can be accessed on MS-DOS computers that have an A20 handler.
  • bawdy house — a brothel.
  • bawdyhouses — Plural form of bawdyhouse.
  • bay of pigs — a bay on the SW coast of Cuba: scene of an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by US-backed troops (April 17, 1961)
  • bay scallop — a small scallop, Pecten irradians, inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, especially eastern Long Island Sound.
  • beaky-nosed — having a nose that is large, pointed, or hooked
  • beauteously — In a beauteous manner.
  • beauty shop — A beauty shop is the same as a beauty parlour.
  • beauty spot — A beauty spot is a place in the country that is popular because of its beautiful scenery.
  • bellicosity — inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
  • berry spoon — a small spoon, especially of the late 18th century, having a perforated bowl.
  • berylliosis — a lung disease caused by inhaling beryllium
  • bible story — a story from the Bible
  • big society — the devolution of political power and social responsibility to local communities as opposed to centralized political power and state control
  • biocatalyst — a chemical, esp an enzyme, that initiates or increases the rate of a biochemical reaction
  • biodynamics — the branch of biology that deals with the energy production and activities of organisms
  • bioindustry — an industry that makes use of biotechnology and other advanced life science methodologies in the creation or alteration of life forms or processes
  • biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.
  • biosocially — from a biosocial point of view
  • blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
  • blastostyle — the central rodlike portion of a gonangium, upon which buds that develop into medusae are formed.
  • blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
  • bobby socks — Bobby socks or bobbysox are short socks worn by girls or women.
  • bobby-soxer — esp. in the 1940s, a girl in her early teens, esp. one who conformed to adolescent fads
  • bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
  • body fluids — fluids in the body such as blood, semen, and saliva
  • body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
  • body shield — a small bulletproof shield attached to the arm for fending off projectiles, especially in a riot situation.
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