10-letter words containing s, t, y, r
- matryoshka — Each of a set of brightly painted hollow wooden dolls of varying sizes, designed to nest inside one another.
- mercy seat — Bible: Golden covering on the Arc of Covenant
- mercy-seat — Bible. the gold covering on the ark of the covenant, regarded as the resting place of God. Ex. 25:17–22. the throne of God.
- metrostyle — a device that controls the speed of a player piano
- microcytes — Pathology. an abnormally small red blood cell.
- minstrelsy — the art or practice of a minstrel.
- mistrayned — deluded or incorrectly trained
- mistressly — relating to a female who is skilled or expert in a particular area
- moneyworts — Plural form of moneywort.
- monostylar — having or comprising a sole upright or pillar
- multistory — (of a building) having several or many stories.
- muster day — the annual day for enrollment in the militia of all able men aged 18 to 45, according to a law established in 1792 and in effect until after the Civil War.
- mydriatics — Plural form of mydriatic.
- myringitis — (pathology) An inflammation of the eardrum.
- 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.
- mythmakers — Plural form of mythmaker.
- 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).
- panegyrist — a person who panegyrizes; eulogist.
- parastichy — one of a number of seemingly secondary spirals or oblique ranks winding around the stem or axis to the right and left in a spiral arrangement of leaves, scales, etc., where the internodes are short and the members closely crowded, as in the houseleek and the pine cone.
- partisanly — in a partisan manner
- party list — of or relating to a system of voting in which people vote for a party rather than for a candidate. Parties are assigned the number of seats which reflects their share of the vote
- pastorally — having the simplicity, charm, serenity, or other characteristics generally attributed to rural areas: pastoral scenery; the pastoral life.
- pastry bag — a conical tube with a patterned hole at one end, fitted over the opening of a cloth funnel (pastry bag) for shaping icings, food pastes, etc., as they are forced through by squeezing the bag.
- pastry mix — a product that can be mixed with water to make pastry
- pastrycook — a person who makes pastry or pastries
- personalty — personal estate or property.
- perversity — the state or quality of being perverse.
- phantastry — a display of flamboyance or extravagance
- pheasantry — a place where pheasants are bred or are kept together
- phenocryst — any of the conspicuous crystals in a porphyritic rock.
- photostory — photo essay.
- physiatric — physical medicine.
- 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.
- pityriasis — Pathology. any of various skin diseases marked by the shedding of branlike scales of epidermis.