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11-letter words containing s, y, c, o, i

  • pyroclastic — composed chiefly of fragments of volcanic origin, as agglomerate, tuff, and certain other rocks; volcaniclastic.
  • pyrognostic — relating to heated minerals
  • rediscovery — the act or an instance of discovering.
  • retinoscopy — an objective method of determining the refractive error of an eye.
  • salaciously — lustful or lecherous.
  • saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
  • sarcocystis — a member of the species of parasite Sarcocystis
  • schistosity — of, resembling, or in the form of schist.
  • schizophyte — any of the Schizophyta, a group of organisms comprising the schizomycetes and the schizophyceous algae, characterized by a simple structure and reproduction by simple fission or spores.
  • scientology — the philosophy of the Church of Scientology, a nondenominational movement founded in the US in the 1950s, which emphasizes self-knowledge as a means of realizing full spiritual potential
  • scorchingly — in a scorching manner
  • scorpionfly — any of several harmless insects of the order Mecoptera, the male of certain species having a reproductive structure that resembles the sting of a scorpion.
  • scripophily — the collecting by hobbyists of old stock certificates and bonds that have no intrinsic value other than their aesthetic appeal or relative rarity.
  • scyphistoma — a stage in the life cycle of a jellyfish or other scyphozoan when it is fixed in place and reproduces asexually to produce free-swimming medusas.
  • second city — Chicago, Ill.
  • secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
  • seychellois — a native or inhabitant of Seychelles.
  • soccer city — a large football stadium in South Africa, in the Soweto area of Johannesburg; headquarters of the South African Football Association
  • sociability — the act or an instance of being sociable.
  • sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
  • somatically — of the body; bodily; physical.
  • sothic year — the fixed year of the ancient Egyptians, determined by the heliacal rising of Sirius, and equivalent to 365 days.
  • spasmolytic — of or noting spasmolysis.
  • spondylitic — inflammation of the vertebrae.
  • sporadicity — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
  • sporocystic — of or like a sporocyst
  • steatopygic — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
  • stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
  • stereotypic — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
  • stichometry — the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
  • sub-society — an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.
  • subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
  • suicidology — the study of the causes and prevention of suicide.
  • sycophantic — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • syllogistic — of or relating to a syllogism.
  • symbolistic — a person who uses symbols or symbolism.
  • symposiarch — the president, director, or master of a symposium.
  • symptomatic — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
  • synchoresis — the act or an instance of conceding an argument in order to make a stronger one
  • synchromism — a movement of the early 20th century led by American artists and manifested in their experimentation with nonfigurative or entirely abstract paintings containing shapes and volumes of pure color. Compare Orphism (def 2).
  • synchronise — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
  • synchronism — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
  • synchronize — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
  • syncopation — Music. a shifting of the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats.
  • syncopative — relating to syncopation
  • syndication — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
  • synecdochic — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
  • synodically — by the authority of a synod
  • synoeciosis — a figure of speech in which contrary terms are use in conjunction
  • synonymatic — relating to, or made up of, synonyms
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