11-letter words containing s, o, y, l
- borstal boy — (formerly) a boy sent to borstal
- boxer-style — cut or fashioned in the style of boxer shorts: men's boxer-style bathing suits.
- boyle's law — the principle that the pressure of a gas varies inversely with its volume at constant temperature
- bristol bay — arm of the Bering Sea between the SW Alas. mainland & the Alaska Peninsula
- brooklynese — the speech, especially the pronunciation, thought to be characteristic of a person coming from New York City, especially Brooklyn.
- bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
- 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 yourself — If you are by yourself, you are alone.
- byelorussia — Official name Belarus. Formerly White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. a republic in E Europe, N of Ukraine: formerly a part of the Soviet Union. 80,154 sq. mi. (207,600 sq. km). Capital: Minsk.
- callipygous — having well-shaped buttocks.
- calypsonian — a performer or writer of calypsos
- cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
- candy floss — cotton candy.
- capaciously — In a capacious manner.
- capsulotomy — (surgery) incision into a capsule, especially into the lens of the eye when removing cataracts.
- carboxylase — any enzyme that catalyses the release of carbon dioxide from certain acids
- carousingly — in a carousing manner
- cavernously — In a cavernous manner; like a cavern.
- ceylon moss — a red East Indian seaweed, Gracilaria lichenoides, from which agar is made
- chiloplasty — cheiloplasty.
- chlamydeous — (of plants) relating to or possessing sepals and petals
- cholecystic — gallbladder.
- christology — the branch of theology concerned with the person, attributes, and deeds of Christ
- chrysoberyl — a rare very hard greenish-yellow mineral consisting of beryllium aluminate in orthorhombic crystalline form and occurring in coarse granite: used as a gemstone in the form of cat's eye and alexandrite. Formula: BeAl2O4
- chrysocolla — a mineral that is a silicate of copper and occurs in shades of blue or green and is reputed to have calming properties
- chrysomelid — a vibrantly-coloured beetle belonging to the family Chrysomelidae that eats the leaves of plants
- chyliferous — containing chyle
- cladophylls — Plural form of cladophyll.
- clamorously — full of, marked by, or of the nature of clamor.
- cleistogamy — self-pollination and fertilization of an unopened flower, as in the flowers of the violet produced in summer
- cloudlessly — Without clouds.
- coelioscopy — a medical procedure for examining the abdomen
- collusively — in a collusive manner
- colocynthis — Obsolete form of colocynth.
- colonoscopy — visual inspection of the interior of the colon with a flexible, lighted tube inserted through the rectum.
- colorlessly — In a colorless manner.
- combustibly — In a combustible manner.
- commensally — In a commensal manner.
- compositely — In a composite manner.
- conchylious — Archaic form of conchylaceous.
- confessedly — by admission or confession; avowedly
- confusingly — causing or tending to cause confusion: a confusing attempt at explanation.
- congruously — In a congruous manner.
- consciously — aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
- consimility — consimilitude
- consolatory — consoling or tending to console; comforting
- consolingly — to alleviate or lessen the grief, sorrow, or disappointment of; give solace or comfort: Only his children could console him when his wife died.
- consonantly — Phonetics. (in English articulation) a speech sound produced by occluding with or without releasing (p, b; t, d; k, g), diverting (m, n, ng), or obstructing (f, v; s, z, etc.) the flow of air from the lungs (opposed to vowel). (in a syllable) any sound other than the sound of greatest sonority in the syllable, as b, r, and g in brig (opposed to sonant). Compare vowel (def 1b). (in linguistic function) a concept empirically determined as a phonological element in structural contrast with vowel, as the b of be, the w of we, the y, s, and t of yeast, etc.
- consultancy — A consultancy is a company that gives expert advice on a particular subject.
- consumingly — In a consuming manner; so as to consume.