10-letter words containing s, t, o, r, y
- isobutyric — Of or pertaining to isobutyric acid or its derivatives.
- karyotypes — Plural form of karyotype.
- 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
- lustrously — In a lustrous manner, glossily.
- macrocytes — Plural form of macrocyte.
- matryoshka — Each of a set of brightly painted hollow wooden dolls of varying sizes, designed to nest inside one another.
- metrostyle — a device that controls the speed of a player piano
- microcytes — Pathology. an abnormally small red blood cell.
- moneyworts — Plural form of moneywort.
- monostylar — having or comprising a sole upright or pillar
- multistory — (of a building) having several or many stories.
- 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.
- nonstarchy — Alternative spelling of non-starchy.
- numerosity — very many; being or existing in great quantity: numerous visits; numerous fish.
- orthostyle — (of columns) erected in a straight row.
- osculatory — to come into close contact or union.
- osmolarity — The concentration of a solution expressed as the total number of solute particles per liter.
- 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).
- pastorally — having the simplicity, charm, serenity, or other characteristics generally attributed to rural areas: pastoral scenery; the pastoral life.
- pastrycook — a person who makes pastry or pastries
- personalty — personal estate or property.
- phenocryst — any of the conspicuous crystals in a porphyritic rock.
- photostory — photo essay.
- physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
- 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.
- polyhistor — a person of great and varied learning.
- polystylar — relating to a polystyle
- pony truss — a through bridge truss having its deck between the top and bottom chords and having no top lateral bracing.
- 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.