11-letter words containing s, a, t, y
- assentingly — in a concurring or complying manner
- assertively — confidently aggressive or self-assured; positive: aggressive; dogmatic: He is too assertive as a salesman.
- astatically — unstable; unsteady.
- astral body — Astronomy. a star, planet, comet, or other heavenly body.
- astringency — An astringent taste.
- 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.
- asymmetries — Plural form of asymmetry.
- asynartetic — having or containing two different types of metre
- asynclitism — The position of a baby in the uterus such that the head is presenting first, tilted to the shoulder and thus no longer in line with the birth canal.
- 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
- 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
- axisymmetry — any symmetry formed around an axis
- baby sister — a younger sister
- baby-sitter — a person who takes care of a child or children while the parents are out
- babysitters — Plural form of babysitter.
- babysitting — to take charge of a child while the parents are temporarily away.
- baptismally — In a baptismal way; through baptism.
- bárány test — a test which detects diseases of the semicircular canals of the inner ear, devised by Robert Bárány (1876–1936)
- basil thyme — a plant, Acinos thymoides, of the mint family, having egg-shaped leaves and purplish flowers.
- basil-thyme — a European plant, Acinos arvensis, having clusters of small violet-and-white flowers: family Lamiaceae
- basipetally — in the manner of a basipetal
- bathyscaphe — a navigable, submersible vessel for exploring the depths of the ocean, having a separate, overhead chamber filled with gasoline for buoyancy and iron or steel weights for ballast.
- bathysphere — a strong steel deep-sea diving sphere, lowered by cable
- battery set — a set of batteries required for a particular purpose
- beastiality — Misspelling of bestiality.
- beauteously — In a beauteous manner.
- beauty bush — a hardy shrub (Kolkwitzia amabilis) of the honeysuckle family, having tubular pink flowers with white bristly hairs on the ovary
- 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.
- beauty-bush — a Chinese shrub, Kolkwitzia amabilis, of the honeysuckle family, having showy, pinkish flowers and grown as an ornamental.
- bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
- binary star — a double star system comprising two stars orbiting around their common centre of mass. A visual binary can be seen through a telescope. A spectroscopic binary can only be observed by the spectroscopic Doppler shift as each star moves towards or away from the earth
- biocatalyst — a chemical, esp an enzyme, that initiates or increases the rate of a biochemical reaction
- bisexuality — Biology. of both sexes. combining male and female organs in one individual; hermaphroditic.
- blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
- blastostyle — the central rodlike portion of a gonangium, upon which buds that develop into medusae are formed.
- borstal boy — (formerly) a boy sent to borstal
- breadthways — from side to side
- breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
- bristol bay — arm of the Bering Sea between the SW Alas. mainland & the Alaska Peninsula
- buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
- butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter