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11-letter words containing s, y, n, c

  • sufficiency — the state or fact of being sufficient; adequacy.
  • sugar candy — large crystals of sugar formed by suspending strings in a strong sugar solution that hardens on the strings, used chiefly for sweetening coffee
  • sugar-candy — excessively sweet; saccharine: sugar-candy stories in family magazines.
  • suisun city — a town in central California.
  • superagency — a very large agency, especially a large government agency that oversees smaller ones.
  • sycophantic — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • synanthetic — relating to synanthesis
  • synchoresis — the act or an instance of conceding an argument in order to make a stronger one
  • synchromesh — noting or pertaining to a synchronized shifting mechanism.
  • 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.
  • synchronous — occurring at the same time; coinciding in time; contemporaneous; simultaneous.
  • synchrotron — a type of cyclotron consisting of magnetic sections alternately spaced with sections in which particles are electrostatically accelerated.
  • syncopation — Music. a shifting of the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats.
  • syncopative — relating to syncopation
  • syndactylus — a person having united or webbed fingers or toes.
  • syndicalism — a form or development of trade unionism, originating in France, that aims at the possession of the means of production and distribution, and ultimately at the control of society, by federated bodies of industrial workers, and that seeks to realize its purposes through general strikes, terrorism, sabotage, etc.
  • 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.
  • synergistic — pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling synergy: a synergistic effect.
  • synesthetic — a sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality, as when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization of a certain color.
  • synodically — by the authority of a synod
  • synoeciosis — a figure of speech in which contrary terms are use in conjunction
  • synoecology — the science of relationships between species
  • synonymatic — relating to, or made up of, synonyms
  • synonymical — a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the language, as happy, joyful, elated. A dictionary of synonyms and antonyms (or opposites), such as Thesaurus.com, is called a thesaurus.
  • synonymicon — a dictionary of synonyms
  • synoptistic — relating to the work of a synoptist
  • syntactical — of or relating to syntax: syntactic errors in English; the syntactic rules for computer source code.
  • syntagmatic — pertaining to a relationship among linguistic elements that occur sequentially in the chain of speech or writing, as the relationship between the sun and is shining or the and sun in the sentence The sun is shining.
  • syntax-case — (language)   A macro system for Scheme by R. Kent Dybvig <[email protected]>. It is superior to the low-level system described in the Revised^4 Report (R4RS). Pattern variables are ordinary identifiers with essentially the same status as lexical variable names and macro keywords. The syntax is modified to recognise and handle references to pattern variables. Version 2.1 works with Chez Scheme and the Macintosh port runs under MacGambit 2.0
  • synthetical — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
  • tenaciously — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
  • typecasting — the practice of casting an actor repeatedly in the same kind of role, esp because of his or physical appearance or previous success in such roles
  • typicalness — of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen.
  • unaccusably — in an unaccusable manner
  • unceasingly — not ceasing or stopping; continuous: an unceasing flow of criticism.
  • uncustomary — according to or depending on custom; usual; habitual.
  • unnecessary — not necessary or essential; needless; unessential.
  • unscholarly — not befitting a scholar or learned person
  • unsociality — the quality of being unsocial
  • urodynamics — the study and measurement of the flow of urine in the urinary tract
  • vanity case — a small luggage bag or case for holding cosmetics or toiletries.
  • yachtswoman — a woman who owns or sails a yacht, or who is devoted to yachting.
  • yachtswomen — Irregular plural form of yachtswoman.
  • yoctosecond — one septillionth (10 -24) of a second. Abbreviation: ysec, ys.
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