11-letter words containing s, a, l, y
- palm sunday — the Sunday before Easter, celebrated in commemoration of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
- palsy-walsy — friendly or appearing to be friendly in a very intimate or hearty way: The police kept their eye on him because he was trying to get palsy-walsy with the security guard.
- patsy cline — Patsy (Virginia Patterson Hensley) 1932–63, U.S. country singer.
- patty shell — a cup-shaped shell of light, flaky pastry, for serving vegetable, fish, or meat mixtures, usually with a sauce.
- pauselessly — in a pauseless manner; ceaselessly
- pear psylla — a small jumping plant louse, Psylla pyricola, originally of Europe, that is a major pest of pears in the eastern U.S.
- pentastylos — a pentastyle building, as a classical temple.
- personality — the visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others: He has a pleasing personality.
- pervasively — spread throughout: The corruption is so pervasive that it is accepted as the way to do business.
- phalanstery — the buildings occupied by a phalanx. the community itself.
- phraseology — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
- phyllotaxis — phyllotaxy.
- physicalise — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
- physicalism — a doctrine associated with logical positivism and holding that every meaningful statement, other than the necessary statements of logic and mathematics, must refer directly or indirectly to observable properties of spatiotemporal things or events.
- physicalist — a doctrine associated with logical positivism and holding that every meaningful statement, other than the necessary statements of logic and mathematics, must refer directly or indirectly to observable properties of spatiotemporal things or events.
- physicality — the physical attributes of a person, especially when overdeveloped or overemphasized.
- physicalize — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
- physiolater — somebody who worships nature
- physiolatry — the worship of nature
- piscatology — the art or science of fishing.
- placelessly — in a placeless manner
- plasmolysis — contraction of the protoplasm in a living cell when water is removed by exosmosis.
- play possum — opossum.
- playfulness — full of play or fun; sportive; frolicsome.
- playstation — (games, hardware) The leading family of games consoles, from Sony Corporation consisting of the original Playstation (PS1) and the Playstation 2 (PS2). The basic Playstations consist of a small box containing the processor and a DVD reader, with video outputs to connect to a TV, sockets for two game controllers, and a socket for one or two memory cards. The PS2 also has USB sockets. The PS2 can run PS1 software because the PS2's I/O processor is the same as the PS1's CPU.
- plisetskaya — Maya (Mikhailovna) [mah-yuh myi-khahy-luh v-nuh] /ˈmɑ yə myɪˈxaɪ ləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1925–2015, Soviet ballet dancer.
- poetry slam — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
- polyamorous — noting or relating to polyamory, the practice or condition of participating simultaneously in more than one serious romantic or sexual relationship with the knowledge and consent of all partners.
- polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
- polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
- polycarpous — producing fruit many times, as a perennial plant.
- polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
- polycrystal — an object composed of randomly oriented crystals, formed by rapid solidification
- polyphagous — Pathology. excessive desire to eat.
- polysorbate — any of a class of emulsifying and dispersing agents used in various foods and pharmaceutical preparations.
- polyspermia — the secretion of an excessive amount of semen.
- postholiday — occurring after a holiday
- postnatally — after birth, following a birth
- postulatory — of or relating to a postulate or assumption
- preassembly — an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose: The principal will speak to all the students at Friday's assembly.
- presbyteral — of or relating to a presbyter or presbytery
- prickly ash — Also called Northern prickly ash, toothache tree. a citrus shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having aromatic leaves and usually prickly branches.
- pro-slavery — favoring slavery.
- prophylaxis — Medicine/Medical. the preventing of disease. the prevention of a specific disease, as by studying the biological behavior, transmission, etc., of its causative agent and applying a series of measures against it.
- prosaically — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- psaligraphy — the art of cutting out silhouettes
- psychedelia — the realm or artifacts of psychedelic drugs, art, writings, or the like.
- psychically — of or relating to the human soul or mind; mental (opposed to physical).
- psychoanal. — psychoanalysis
- psychodelia — the production of, or the culture associated with, psychedelic experiences