11-letter words containing s, y, n, c
- innocuously — not harmful or injurious; harmless: an innocuous home remedy.
- inscrutably — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- insectology — entomology.
- insincerely — not sincere; not honest in the expression of actual feeling; hypocritical.
- insincerity — the quality of being insincere; lack of sincerity; hypocrisy; deceitfulness.
- isocyanides — Plural form of isocyanide.
- isotonicity — (uncountable) The state of being isotonic.
- jackson day — January 8, a holiday commemorating Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815: a legal holiday in Louisiana.
- kansas city — a city in W Missouri, at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers.
- krasny luch — a city in SE Ukraine, E of Donetsk.
- larcenously — In a larcenous manner.
- liquescency — The quality or state of being liquescent.
- lost colony — a settlement of British colonists whom Walter Raleigh sent to Roanoke Island (now part of North Carolina) in 1587 and of whom no trace was found after 1591.
- lucy stoner — a person who advocates the retention of the maiden name by married women. Compare Stone (def 5).
- lychnoscope — lowside window.
- masculinely — In a masculine manner.
- masculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- matronymics — Plural form of matronymic.
- melanocytes — Plural form of melanocyte.
- mesenchymal — Of or pertaining to the mesenchyme.
- mesocyclone — a small cyclone that arises near a thunderstorm and is sometimes associated with the occurrence of tornadoes.
- miscarrying — Present participle of miscarry.
- monocrystal — A single crystal.
- myonecrosis — Necrosis of muscle tissue.
- nanocrystal — A crystalline entity whose size is measured in nanometers; an individual nanometer-sized crystal of such a material.
- nanophysics — the physics of structures and artefacts with dimensions in the nanometre range or of phenomena occurring in nanoseconds
- necessarily — by or of necessity; as a matter of compulsion or requirement: You don't necessarily have to attend.
- needcessity — a necessity; a thing that is needed
- nematocysts — A specialized cell in the tentacles of a jellyfish or other coelenterate, containing a barbed or venomous coiled thread that can be projected in self-defense or to capture prey.
- news agency — a business organization that gathers news for transmittal to its subscribers. Compare press association.
- nonmystical — not mystical
- nonphysical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- nonsyllabic — not forming a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable.
- nonsymbolic — not involving or using symbols
- nonsystemic — not systemic
- nutty slack — coal
- nyctanthous — (of plants) flowering at night
- nyctinastic — (of the periodic movement of flowers or leaves ) caused by nightly changes in light intensity or temperature.
- oneiroscopy — the interpretation or study of dreams
- onycholysis — (medicine) The loosening or separation of a fingernail or toenail from its bed.
- out of sync — out of synchronization (with)
- oxyrhynchus — a fish found in the Nile, sometimes depicted on Egyptian sculptures and coins
- pachysandra — any plant of the genus Pachysandra, as the Allegheny spurge or Japanese spurge, the leaves of which grow in a rounded clump, widely used as a ground cover in the U.S.
- panpsychism — a theory that all matter has some form of consciousness.
- panpsychist — someone who believes that all matter has an element of consciousness
- patsy cline — Patsy (Virginia Patterson Hensley) 1932–63, U.S. country singer.
- penny stock — common stock, usually highly speculative, selling for less than a dollar a share.
- persistency — the act or fact of persisting.
- persnickety — overparticular; fussy.
- physiciancy — the position, job, or office of physician