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11-letter words containing s, a, y, o, n

  • obsignatory — (obsolete) Ratifying; confirming by sealing.
  • obstinately — firmly or stubbornly adhering to one's purpose, opinion, etc.; not yielding to argument, persuasion, or entreaty.
  • on stand-by — in a state of readiness for action or use
  • overanalyse — Alternative spelling of overanalyze.
  • oxygen mask — a masklike device placed or worn over the nose and mouth when inhaling supplementary oxygen from an attached tank.
  • oysterwoman — a woman who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
  • parasensory — extrasensory.
  • pay station — a machine where you can pay for parking, as in a car park, etc
  • pentagynous — (of plants) belonging to the order Pentagynia, characterized by the presence of five styles or pistils
  • pentastylos — a pentastyle building, as a classical temple.
  • person-year — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on an ideal amount of work done by one person in a year consisting of a standard number of person-days.
  • personality — the visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others: He has a pleasing personality.
  • 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.
  • polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
  • polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
  • postnatally — after birth, following a birth
  • prison yard — a piece of enclosed ground attached to a prison, where prisoners may take exercise at certain times
  • prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
  • psychoanal. — psychoanalysis
  • psychomancy — occult communication between souls or with spirits.
  • questionary — a questionnaire.
  • revisionary — the act or work of revising.
  • rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
  • safety zone — A safety zone is a place in the middle of a road crossing where you can wait before you cross the other half of the road.
  • salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
  • satanophany — a manifestation or incarnation of Satan; demonic possession
  • say amen to — to express strong approval of or support for (an assertion, hope, etc)
  • scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • seasonality — the state or quality of being seasonal or dependent on the seasons: the seasonality of Halloween costumes.
  • secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
  • seditionary — of or relating to sedition; seditious.
  • seismonasty — a nastic movement in response to shock, esp the rapid folding of the leaflets of the sensitive plant due to changes in turgor pressure caused by vibration
  • senior year — final year of school or college
  • sensorially — with respect to sensation; in a sensorial way
  • shanty town — ghetto, slum
  • siphonogamy — a mode of pollination in which pollen tubes develop to facilitate the passage of male cells to eggs
  • sir anthonySir Anthony, Van Dyck, Sir Anthony.
  • smart money — money invested or wagered by experienced investors or bettors.
  • snobography — an account or description of snobs
  • soothsaying — the practice or art of foretelling events.
  • soybean oil — a pale-yellow oil derived from soybeans by expression or solvent extraction: used as a food and in the manufacture of soap, candles, inks, paints, varnishes, etc.
  • sphagnology — the study of sphagna
  • spontaneity — the state, quality, or fact of being spontaneous.
  • stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stony coral — a true coral consisting of numerous anthozoan polyps embedded in the calcareous material that they secrete.
  • stony-faced — having a rigid, expressionless face.
  • stylization — to design in or cause to conform to a particular style, as of representation or treatment in art; conventionalize.
  • sub-company — subsidiary company.
  • subcontrary — one of two propositions that can both be true but cannot both be false.
  • subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
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