9-letter words containing s, a, y, o, n
- lyonnaise — (of food, especially fried potatoes) cooked with pieces of onion.
- manoscopy — the measurement of the densities of gases
- mansionry — (obsolete) The state of dwelling or residing; occupancy.
- mantyhose — a one-piece clinging garment covering the body from the waist to the feet, worn by men
- mesocrany — the state of having a medium breadth of skull
- monastery — a house or place of residence occupied by a community of persons, especially monks, living in seclusion under religious vows.
- moneybags — a bag for money.
- myostatin — (protein) A protein that acts as an inhibitor to the growth of muscle tissue.
- neoplasty — the surgical formation of new tissue structures or repair of damaged structures
- nonsteady — not steady or stable; unsteady
- nyctalops — a person affected by nyctalopia
- obstinacy — the quality or state of being obstinate; stubbornness.
- oscitancy — yawning, as with drowsiness; gaping.
- oxygenase — an oxidoreductase enzyme that catalyzes the introduction of molecular oxygen into an organic substance.
- oysterman — a person who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- pantyhose — (used with a plural verb) a one-piece, skintight garment worn by women, combining panties and stockings.
- parsimony — extreme or excessive economy or frugality; stinginess; niggardliness.
- polynesia — one of the three principal divisions of Oceania, comprising those island groups in the Pacific lying E of Melanesia and Micronesia and extending from the Hawaiian Islands S to New Zealand.
- sand goby — a species of goby, (Pomatoschistus minutus), that lives in European sandy waters
- saoshyant — the World Savior who will come at the end of time.
- satyricon — a satirical novel, interspersed with verse, written in the 1st century a.d. by Petronius, extant in fragments.
- sciomancy — divination with the help of ghosts
- secondary — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- sheboygan — a port in E Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- showmanly — characteristic of a showman
- signatory — having signed, or joined in signing, a document: the signatory powers to a treaty.
- skanky-ho — a promiscuous woman
- soakingly — so as to saturate or soak
- soaringly — in a soaring manner
- sokemanry — tenure of land subject to the soke of someone else.
- solyman i — Suleiman I.
- sonically — in a sonic manner
- sonnetary — relating to sonnets
- soya bean — soybean.
- spoonways — like spoons, esp by fitting together in the way that spoons do
- staminody — the metamorphosis of any of various flower organs, as a sepal or a petal, into a stamen.
- stornoway — a city in NW Scotland, in the Hebrides.
- strayhorn — William ("Billy") 1915–67, U.S. jazz pianist and composer: collaborator with Duke Ellington.
- sycophant — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- symbolang — Lapidus & Goldstein, 1965. Symbol manipulating Fortran subroutine package for IBM 7094, later CDC 6600.
- symphonia — any of various medieval musical instruments, as the hurdy-gurdy.
- synagogue — a Jewish house of worship, often having facilities for religious instruction.
- syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
- synkaryon — a nucleus formed by the fusion of two preexisting nuclei.
- synodical — of a synod; synodal
- synodsman — a member of a synod
- tolstoyan — Leo or Lev Nikolaevich [lev nik-uh-lahy-uh-vich;; Russian lyef nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /lɛv ˌnɪk əˈlaɪ əˌvɪtʃ;; Russian ˈlyɛf nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Count, 1828–1910, Russian novelist and social critic.
- tyrannous — tyrannical.
- ulyanovsk — a city in the W Russian Federation, on the Volga River: birthplace of Lenin.
- unsavoury — not savory; tasteless or insipid: an unsavory meal.