11-letter words containing s, o, e, y
- xyridaceous — (of a plant) pertaining to or belonging to the order Xyrideae
- yachtswomen — Irregular plural form of yachtswoman.
- yellow hats — the sect of Tibetan Buddhist monks established after religious reforms in the 14th century.
- yellow rust — stripe rust.
- yellow soap — old-fashioned all-purpose soap
- yellow spot — Ophthalmology. macula (def 2b).
- yellowcress — Rorippa palustris, a flowering plant in the mustard family.
- yellowheads — Plural form of yellowhead.
- yellowshins — Yellowlegs.
- yellowstone — a river flowing from NW Wyoming through Yellowstone Lake and NE through Montana into the Missouri River in W North Dakota. 671 miles (1080 km) long.
- yellowtails — Plural form of yellowtail.
- yersiniosis — an infectious disease marked by abdominal pain, diarrhoea, and fever
- yevtushenko — Yevgeny Alexandrovich [yiv-gye-nyee uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /yɪvˈgyɛ nyi ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), born 1933, Russian poet.
- yoctosecond — one septillionth (10 -24) of a second. Abbreviation: ysec, ys.
- youskevitch — Igor [ee-gawr] /ˈi gɔr/ (Show IPA), 1912–94, U.S. ballet dancer, born in Russia.
- youthquakes — Plural form of youthquake.
- yttriferous — yielding or containing yttrium.
- zone system — a system for envisioning the values to appear in a black-and-white print and for determining exposure and development, based on a scale of shades ranging from 0 (black) to IX (white).
- zygogenesis — the formation of a zygote.
- zygomycetes — any of a wide variety of common fungi constituting the phylum Zygomycota of the kingdom Fungi (or the class Zygomycetes of the kingdom Plantae), in which sexual reproduction is by the formation of zygospores.
- zymogenesis — the conversion of a zymogen into an enzyme
- zymosimeter — a device for measuring the rate or degree of fermentation