11-letter words containing s, y, a, l
- assentingly — in a concurring or complying manner
- assertively — confidently aggressive or self-assured; positive: aggressive; dogmatic: He is too assertive as a salesman.
- assessingly — So as to assess.
- assiduously — constant; unremitting: assiduous reading.
- assyriology — the study of the culture, history, and archaeological remains of ancient Assyria
- astatically — unstable; unsteady.
- astral body — Astronomy. a star, planet, comet, or other heavenly body.
- asynclitism — The position of a baby in the uterus such that the head is presenting first, tilted to the shoulder and thus no longer in line with the birth canal.
- atrociously — extremely or shockingly wicked, cruel, or brutal: an atrocious crime.
- audaciously — extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless: an audacious explorer.
- autosomally — in the manner of an autosome
- baby-scales — scales used for weighing babies
- babylonians — of or relating to Babylon or Babylonia.
- bacchylides — flourished 5th century b.c, Greek poet.
- baldcypress — any of a genus (Taxodium, esp. T. distichum) of cone-bearing trees of the baldcypress family, that grows in the swamps of the SE U.S. and normally sheds its small, pointed needles in the fall
- ballplayers — Plural form of ballplayer.
- baptismally — In a baptismal way; through baptism.
- barbarously — uncivilized; wild; savage; crude.
- barley sack — a burlap bag.
- basil thyme — a plant, Acinos thymoides, of the mint family, having egg-shaped leaves and purplish flowers.
- basil-thyme — a European plant, Acinos arvensis, having clusters of small violet-and-white flowers: family Lamiaceae
- basipetally — in the manner of a basipetal
- bass player — a player of a double bass or a bass guitar
- bay scallop — a small scallop, Pecten irradians, inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, especially eastern Long Island Sound.
- beastiality — Misspelling of bestiality.
- beauteously — In a beauteous manner.
- biocatalyst — a chemical, esp an enzyme, that initiates or increases the rate of a biochemical reaction
- biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.
- biosocially — from a biosocial point of view
- bisexuality — Biology. of both sexes. combining male and female organs in one individual; hermaphroditic.
- blady grass — a coarse leafy Australasian grass, Imperata cylindrica
- blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
- blastostyle — the central rodlike portion of a gonangium, upon which buds that develop into medusae are formed.
- bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
- borstal boy — (formerly) a boy sent to borstal
- boyle's law — the principle that the pressure of a gas varies inversely with its volume at constant temperature
- breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
- bristol bay — arm of the Bering Sea between the SW Alas. mainland & the Alaska Peninsula
- bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- busy signal — If you try to make a telephone call and get a busy signal, it means that you cannot make the call because the line is already being used by someone else.
- 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.
- 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.
- cadastrally — from a cadastral point of view
- callipygous — having well-shaped buttocks.
- calycanthus — any of several shrubs of the genus Calycanthus, found in North America
- 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.