11-letter words containing o, y, s
- shabbas goy — a gentile who performs tasks for Jews in the home or synagogue on the Sabbath or on a holy day that are forbidden Jews on such occasions, as turning on the lights or heat.
- shadow play — a show in which shadows of puppets, flat figures, or live actors are projected onto a lighted screen.
- shameworthy — deserving shame; denoting something a person ought to be ashamed of
- shanty town — ghetto, slum
- shoofly pie — an open pie filled with a sweet crumb and molasses mixture and baked.
- short jenny — an in-off into a middle pocket
- short money — (in Britain) the annual payment made to Opposition parties in the House of Commons to help them pay for certain services necessary to the carrying out of their parliamentary duties; established in 1975
- short story — a piece of prose fiction, usually under 10,000 words.
- sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
- sightworthy — worth seeing
- sigmoidally — in the form of a sigmoid
- silly money — an absurdly large or, less commonly, small amount of money
- sindonology — the scientific study of the Shroud of Turin.
- siphonogamy — a mode of pollination in which pollen tubes develop to facilitate the passage of male cells to eggs
- sir anthony — Sir Anthony, Van Dyck, Sir Anthony.
- sky compass — a device for taking a bearing by means of polarized sunlight when the sun is invisible.
- skyrocketed — a rocket firework that ascends into the air and explodes at a height, usually in a brilliant array of sparks of one or more colors.
- smart money — money invested or wagered by experienced investors or bettors.
- smokelessly — in a smokeless manner, without smoke
- smokerlyzer — a device for estimating the amount of carbon monoxide in the breath: used in testing whether or not people, esp schoolchildren, have been smoking
- smokey bear — an officer or officers of a state highway patrol.
- smoky river — a river in W central Alberta, Canada, flowing N to the Peace River. 250 miles (402 km) long.
- smoky topaz — smoky quartz used as a gemstone: not a true topaz.
- smooth away — to remove (difficulties, obstacles, etc.)
- snobography — an account or description of snobs
- snowy egret — a white egret, Egretta thula, of the warmer parts of the Western Hemisphere: formerly hunted in great numbers for its plumes, the species is now protected and has recovered.
- snowy river — a river in SE Australia, rising in SE New South Wales: waters diverted through a system of dams and tunnels across the watershed into the Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers for hydroelectric power and to provide water for irrigation. Length: 426 km (265 miles)
- soccer city — a large football stadium in South Africa, in the Soweto area of Johannesburg; headquarters of the South African Football Association
- sociability — the act or an instance of being sociable.
- sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
- sock cymbal — high-hat
- soft hyphen — a hyphen that is used only in breaking a word at the end of a line of text.
- soft x-rays — a type of x-ray that has its wavelength between 20 and 200 angstroms
- solar cycle — the variation of sunspots, prominences, flares, and other solar activity through an 11-year cycle.
- soldier fly — any of several flies of the family Stratiomyidae, characterized by brightly colored abdominal stripes.
- solenocytes — a type of long, narrow, flagellated cell that functions in excretion of nitrogenous wastes and occurs in a variety of organisms, including certain annelids and mollusks.
- solenoglyph — any poisonous snake of the viper family with hollow, paired, erectile fangs
- solvability — capable of being solved, as a problem.
- somatically — of the body; bodily; physical.
- soothfastly — in a soothfast manner
- soothsaying — the practice or art of foretelling events.
- sooty mould — a fungal plant disease characterized by a blackish growth covering the surface of leaves, fruits, etc
- sorbability — the ability of something to absorb
- sorrowfully — full of or feeling sorrow; grieved; sad.
- soteriology — the doctrine of salvation through Jesus Christ.
- sothic year — the fixed year of the ancient Egyptians, determined by the heliacal rising of Sirius, and equivalent to 365 days.
- sour cherry — a cherry, Prunus cerasus, characterized by gray bark and the spreading habit of its branches.
- south tyrol — a former part of the Austrian state of Tyrol: ceded to Italy in 1919, becoming the Bolzano and Trento provinces of the Trentino-Alto Adige Autonomous Region. Area: 14 037 sq km (5420 sq miles)
- south yemen — Yemen (def 3).
- southwardly — toward the south