11-letter words containing r, y, s, a
- scent spray — perfume that comes in an aerosol bottle
- school year — the months of the year during which school is open and attendance at school is required.
- sclerocauly — the feature of having a hard, dry stem
- scrapepenny — a person who is stingy; a miser
- scrawlingly — in a scrawling manner
- screamingly — If you say that something is, for example, screamingly funny or screamingly boring, you mean that it is extremely funny or extremely boring.
- sea lamprey — a parasitic marine lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, that spawns in fresh water along both Atlantic coasts and in the Great Lakes, where it is responsible for losses of economically valuable fish.
- seamstressy — needlework
- searchingly — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- sedimentary — of, relating to, or of the nature of sediment.
- seditionary — of or relating to sedition; seditious.
- self-parody — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- self-slayer — one who kills oneself.
- senior year — final year of school or college
- sensorially — with respect to sensation; in a sensorial way
- serotherapy — therapy by means of injections of a serum obtained especially from an immune animal.
- sex therapy — treatment of sexual disorders that have psychological causes, employing psychiatric counseling, behavior modification, and education.
- shaftesbury — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of, 1621–83, English statesman.
- shameworthy — deserving shame; denoting something a person ought to be ashamed of
- shcharansky — (Natan) Anatoly [nah-tahn an-uh-toh-lee;; Russian uh-nuh-taw-lyee] /nɑˈtɑn ˌæn əˈtoʊ li;; Russian ʌ nʌˈtɔ lyi/ (Show IPA), born 1948, Soviet mathematician and human-rights activist, in Israel since 1986.
- sheriffalty — shrievalty.
- sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
- sierra lily — a lily, Lilium parvum, of the northwestern U.S., having erect, purple-spotted, orange-red flowers with a yellow base.
- silver gray — a light brownish-gray.
- silver-gray — gray with a silvery luster
- singularity — the state, fact, or quality of being singular.
- sir anthony — Sir Anthony, Van Dyck, Sir Anthony.
- sir stanley — Arthur Penrhyn [pen-rin] /ˈpɛn rɪn/ (Show IPA), (Dean Stanley) 1815–81, English clergyman and author.
- six day war — a war fought in June, 1967, between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, in which Israel captured large tracts of Arab territory.
- six-day war — a war fought in June, 1967, between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, in which Israel captured large tracts of Arab territory.
- sky cavalry — air cavalry.
- sky marshal — an armed plainclothes federal marshal riding on an airliner to protect against skyjacking.
- skyscraping — of or like a skyscraper; very high: a skyscraping chimney.
- slant rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- slaveringly — in a slavering manner
- smart money — money invested or wagered by experienced investors or bettors.
- smokey bear — an officer or officers of a state highway patrol.
- snobography — an account or description of snobs
- sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
- 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.
- sorbability — the ability of something to absorb
- sothic year — the fixed year of the ancient Egyptians, determined by the heliacal rising of Sirius, and equivalent to 365 days.
- southwardly — toward the south
- sparklessly — in a sparkless manner
- sparklingly — in a sparkling manner
- spectrality — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation