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11-letter words containing s, y, m

  • diphysitism — the belief that in Christ two distinct natures, the human and the divine, existed together
  • disarmingly — removing or capable of removing hostility, suspicion, etc., as by being charming: a disarming smile.
  • disassembly — to take apart.
  • discomycete — any of a group of fungi considered as belonging to the class Ascomycetes of the kingdom Plantae, including cup fungi, morels, and truffles, characterized by a cup-shaped or disk-shaped fruiting body.
  • disemployed — Simple past tense and past participle of disemploy.
  • dismayfully — in a dismayful manner
  • dismayingly — In a manner that causes dismay.
  • dissymmetry — absence or lack of symmetry.
  • disyllabism — the state of being disyllabic.
  • domesticity — the state of being domestic; domestic or home life.
  • draftsmanly — Befitting a draftsman; geometrically artistic.
  • dreamlessly — In a dreamless way; without dreams.
  • dry compass — a compass having a compass card mounted on pivots.
  • dry measure — the system of units of capacity ordinarily used in measuring dry commodities, as grain or fruit. In the U.S. 2 pints = 1 quart (1.101 liters); 8 quarts = 1 peck (8.810 liters); 4 pecks = 1 bushel (35.24 liters). In Great Britain 2 pints = 1 quart (1.136 liters); 4 quarts = 1 gallon (4.546 liters); 8 quarts = 1 peck (9.092 liters); 4 pecks = 1 bushel (36.37 liters); 8 bushels = 1 quarter (291.0 liters).
  • dry shampoo — a product in powder or spray form that you can use to clean hair without wetting it
  • dyer's moss — a lichen, Roccella tinctoria, from which the purple dye orchil can be prepared.
  • dynasticism — a system of government in which the rulers are all drawn from the same family
  • dysharmonic — relating to abnormal bone development
  • dysphemisms — Plural form of dysphemism.
  • dysrhythmia — a disturbance of rhythm, as of speech or of brain waves recorded by an electroencephalograph.
  • dysrhythmic — Having an unpleasing, irregular beat.
  • early music — music of the medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque periods, especially revived and played on period instruments; European music after ancient music and before the classical music era, from the beginning of the Middle Ages to about 1750.
  • embryoblast — A mass of cells at the embryonic pole of the blastocyst, that develops to form the embryo.
  • emphyteusis — a continual right in a property that belongs to another
  • employments — Plural form of employment.
  • emulsifying — Present participle of emulsify.
  • endoenzymes — Plural form of endoenzyme.
  • enterostomy — An ileostomy or similar surgical operation in which the small intestine is diverted to an artificial opening in the abdominal wall or in another part of the intestine.
  • enzymolysis — a biochemical decomposition, such as a fermentation, that is catalysed by an enzyme
  • eponymously — In an eponymous manner; as in the named character of a book etc.
  • escharotomy — A surgical procedure in which an incision is made through eschar to expose the fatty tissue below.
  • etymologies — Plural form of etymology.
  • etymologise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of etymologize.
  • etymologist — A lexicographer or linguist who specializes in etymology (the origins of words).
  • eurhythmics — Alternative spelling of eurythmics.
  • eurhythmist — a person who teaches or practises eurhythmics
  • familymoons — Plural form of familymoon.
  • fanny adams — absolutely nothing at all
  • farm system — any small-scale or localized network or industry that provides experience and exposure for beginners, similar to that of a baseball farm.
  • file system — (operating system)   (FS, or "filesystem") 1. A system for organizing directories and files, generally in terms of how it is implemented in the disk operating system. E.g., "The Macintosh file system is just dandy as long as you don't have to interface it with any other file systems". 2. The collection of files and directories stored on a given drive (floppy drive, hard drive, disk partition, logical drive, RAM drive, etc.). E.g., "mount attaches a named file system to the file system hierarchy at the pathname location directory [...]" -- Unix manual page for "mount(8)". As an extension of this sense, "file system" is sometimes used to refer to the representatation of the file system's organisation (e.g. its file allocation table) as opposed the actual content of the files in the file system.
  • flamboyants — Plural form of flamboyant.
  • frame story — a secondary story or stories embedded in the main story.
  • freemasonry — secret or tacit brotherhood; fellowship; fundamental bond or rapport: the freemasonry of those who hunger for knowledge.
  • fuel system — The fuel system in a vehicle is the combination of parts needed to carry fuel into and out of the engine.
  • gametocytes — Plural form of gametocyte.
  • gastrectomy — partial or total excision of the stomach.
  • gastromancy — a form of divination by interpreting words and sounds seeming to come from the stomach
  • gastrostomy — the construction of an artificial opening from the stomach through the abdominal wall, permitting intake of food or drainage of gastric contents.
  • geodynamics — (used with a singular verb) the science dealing with dynamic processes or forces within the earth.
  • glamorously — In a glamorous manner.
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