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

  • asphyxiator — to produce asphyxia in.
  • assiduously — constant; unremitting: assiduous reading.
  • assyriology — the study of the culture, history, and archaeological remains of ancient Assyria
  • astral body — Astronomy. a star, planet, comet, or other heavenly body.
  • 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.
  • asyncronous — (spelling)   It's spelled "asynchronous".
  • 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
  • audaciously — extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless: an audacious explorer.
  • 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
  • baby shower — gift-giving party for unborn baby
  • babyboomers — Plural form of babyboomer.
  • babylonians — of or relating to Babylon or Babylonia.
  • barbarously — uncivilized; wild; savage; crude.
  • baryshnikov — Mikhail. born 1948, Soviet-born ballet dancer, who defected (1974) to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet: director (1980–90) of the American Ballet Theatre
  • base memory — (hardware, jargon)   The lowest 640 kilobytes of memory in an IBM PC-compatible computer running MS-DOS. Other PC operating systems can usually compensate and "ignore" the fact that there is a 640K limit to base memory. This was put in place because the original CPU - the Intel 8088 - could only access one megabyte of memory, and IBM wanted to reserve the upper 384KB for device drivers. The high memory area (HMA) lies above 640KB and can be accessed on MS-DOS computers that have an A20 handler.
  • bawdy house — a brothel.
  • bawdyhouses — Plural form of bawdyhouse.
  • bay of pigs — a bay on the SW coast of Cuba: scene of an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by US-backed troops (April 17, 1961)
  • bay scallop — a small scallop, Pecten irradians, inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, especially eastern Long Island Sound.
  • beaky-nosed — having a nose that is large, pointed, or hooked
  • beauteously — In a beauteous manner.
  • 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.
  • biocatalyst — a chemical, esp an enzyme, that initiates or increases the rate of a biochemical reaction
  • biodynamics — the branch of biology that deals with the energy production and activities of organisms
  • biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.
  • biosocially — from a biosocial point of view
  • blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
  • blastostyle — the central rodlike portion of a gonangium, upon which buds that develop into medusae are formed.
  • bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
  • body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
  • body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
  • bony spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by a bony growth, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
  • borstal boy — (formerly) a boy sent to borstal
  • boy soprano — a young male singer whose voice is in the soprano range and has not yet broken, esp one who performs solo
  • boyle's law — the principle that the pressure of a gas varies inversely with its volume at constant temperature
  • brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
  • 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
  • by all odds — the probability that something is so, will occur, or is more likely to occur than something else: The odds are that it will rain today.
  • by means of — If you do something by means of a particular method, instrument, or process, you do it using that method, instrument, or process.
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