10-letter words containing s, y, n, c
- osteomancy — A kind of divination by means of bones.
- pennycress — any of several plants belonging to herbs of the genus Thlaspi, of the mustard family, especially T. arvense, of Europe, bearing somewhat round, flat pods.
- phenocryst — any of the conspicuous crystals in a porphyritic rock.
- physicking — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
- picayunish — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- pinocytose — (of a cell) to take within by means of pinocytosis.
- postulancy — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- presidency — the office, function, or term of office of a president.
- princessly — resembling a princess
- psilocybin — a hallucinogenic crystalline solid, C 1 2 H 1 7 N 2 O 4 P, obtained from the mushroom Psilocybe mexicana.
- psychogony — the development or origin of the soul or mind
- pycnostyle — having an intercolumniation of 1½ diameters.
- quiescency — Quiescence: the state of being quiescent, or at rest.
- rescrutiny — a searching examination or investigation; minute inquiry.
- resiliency — the power or ability to return to the original form, position, etc., after being bent, compressed, or stretched; elasticity.
- rhinoscopy — examination of the nasal passages, esp with a rhinoscope
- rosy finch — any of several finches of the genus Leucosticte, of Asia and western North America, having dark brown plumage with a pinkish wash on the wings and rump.
- samana cay — a small, uninhabited island in the central Bahamas: now believed to be first land in the New World seen by Christopher Columbus 1492. 9 miles (14 km) long.
- sanctimony — pretended, affected, or hypocritical religious devotion, righteousness, etc.
- sand yacht — land yacht.
- sandy city — a town in central Utah.
- scarifying — critical
- scenically — of or relating to natural scenery.
- schizogony — (in the asexual reproduction of certain sporozoans) the multiple fission of a trophozoite or schizont into merozoites.
- scoffingly — to speak derisively; mock; jeer (often followed by at): If you can't do any better, don't scoff. Their efforts toward a peaceful settlement are not to be scoffed at.
- scornfully — full of scorn; derisive; contemptuous: He smiled in a scornful way.
- scowlingly — in a scowling manner
- screenplay — a motion-picture or television scenario.
- scyphozoan — any coelenterate of the class Scyphozoa, comprising the true marine jellyfishes.
- sea canary — beluga (def 2).
- seducingly — in a seducing manner
- semicolony — a country which is partly colonial or which is officially independent but which in fact depends on or is dominated by another country
- shockingly — causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
- shylockian — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- shylocking — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- skyjacking — an act or instance of hijacking an aircraft.
- snobocracy — a social class of snobs
- solenocyte — a type of long, narrow, flagellated cell that functions in excretion of nitrogenous wastes and occurs in a variety of organisms, including certain annelids and mollusks.
- song cycle — a group of art songs that are usually all by the same poet and composer and have a unifying subject or idea.
- spodomancy — divination by studying ashes
- staycation — a vacation spent at home or near home, doing enjoyable activities or visiting local attractions.
- sticky bun — honey bun (def 1).
- sticky end — a single-stranded end of DNA or RNA having a nucleotide base sequence complementary to that of another strand, enabling the two strands to be connected by base pairing: produced in the laboratory with the use of restriction enzymes for genetic engineering purposes.
- stimulancy — an energizing, invigorating, or stimulating quality
- stringency — stringent character or condition: the stringency of poverty.
- strychnine — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.
- subcompany — subsidiary company.
- subeconomy — an economy within another economy
- subpotency — a condition of reduced potency, as of a medication.
- succinctly — Archaic. drawn up, as by a girdle. close-fitting. encircled, as by a girdle.