10-letter words containing s, t, o, r, e, y
- keystrokes — Plural form of keystroke.
- lead story — the principal story in a newspaper
- life story — an account of all the events that happened to someone during their life
- literosity — the condition of being affectedly literary
- love story — story about a romantic relationship
- macrocytes — Plural form of macrocyte.
- metrostyle — a device that controls the speed of a player piano
- microcytes — Pathology. an abnormally small red blood cell.
- moneyworts — Plural form of moneywort.
- myrtaceous — belonging to the Myrtaceae, the myrtle family of plants. Compare myrtle family.
- mysterioso — misterioso
- mysterious — full of, characterized by, or involving mystery: a mysterious occurrence.
- news story — a news report of any length, usually presented in a straightforward style and without editorial comment.
- newsworthy — of sufficient interest to the public or a special audience to warrant press attention or coverage.
- numerosity — very many; being or existing in great quantity: numerous visits; numerous fish.
- orthostyle — (of columns) erected in a straight row.
- osteometry — the anthropometric measurement of bones.
- overcostly — Too costly. (from 16th c.).
- overstayer — a person who illegally remains in a country after the period of the permitted visit has expired
- overstorey — the highest level of trees in a rainforest
- oyster bay — a town on the N shore of Long Island, in SE New York. Theodore Roosevelt homestead nearby.
- oyster bed — a place where oysters breed or are cultivated.
- oyster cap — an edible, brownish-gray to white mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, that grows in clusters on fallen trees and their stumps.
- oysterfish — the oyster toadfish. See under toadfish (def 1).
- personalty — personal estate or property.
- phenocryst — any of the conspicuous crystals in a porphyritic rock.
- poetastery — the work done by a poetaster
- polychrest — a thing which has adapted to multiple uses
- polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
- post entry — a late entry, as a horse in a horse show or race.
- poster boy — a person who appears on a poster
- preciosity — fastidious or carefully affected refinement, as in language, style, or taste.
- prehistory — human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc.; history of prehistoric humans.
- presystole — Physiology. the normal rhythmical contraction of the heart, during which the blood in the chambers is forced onward. Compare diastole.
- propensity — a natural inclination or tendency: a propensity to drink too much.
- prosperity — a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects; good fortune.
- protensity — the actuality of duration
- proteolyse — to cause to undergo proteolysis
- pterylosis — the arrangement of feathers on a bird
- pyrolusite — a common mineral, manganese dioxide, MnO 2 , the principal ore of manganese, used in various manufactures, as a decolorizer of brown or green tints in glass, and as a depolarizer in dry-cell batteries.
- pyrolysate — a product of pyrolysis
- repository — a receptacle or place where things are deposited, stored, or offered for sale: a repository for discarded clothing.
- resolutely — firmly resolved or determined; set in purpose or opinion: Her parents wanted her to marry, but she was focused on her education and remained resolute.
- resonantly — resounding or echoing, as sounds: the resonant thundering of cannons being fired.
- roystering — roister.
- roysterous — boisterous
- saprophyte — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- sclerotomy — incision into the sclera, as to extract foreign bodies.
- sentry box — a small structure for sheltering a sentry from bad weather.
- separatory — serving to separate.