11-letter words containing s, y, n
- seventy-two — a cardinal number, 70 plus 2.
- sex hygiene — a branch of hygiene concerned with sex and sexual behavior as they relate to individual and community well-being.
- shaggy-mane — an edible inky-cap mushroom, Coprinus comatus, having an elongated, shaggy pileus.
- shanty town — ghetto, slum
- shcharansky — (Natan) Anatoly [nah-tahn an-uh-toh-lee;; Russian uh-nuh-taw-lyee] /nɑˈtɑn ˌæn əˈtoʊ li;; Russian ʌ nʌˈtɔ lyi/ (Show IPA), born 1948, Soviet mathematician and human-rights activist, in Israel since 1986.
- shiveringly — in a shivering manner, usually from cold or fright
- short jenny — an in-off into a middle pocket
- short money — (in Britain) the annual payment made to Opposition parties in the House of Commons to help them pay for certain services necessary to the carrying out of their parliamentary duties; established in 1975
- shriekingly — with shrieking
- shufflingly — in the manner of a shuffle
- sibuyan sea — a sea in the Philippines S of Luzon and E of Mindanao: site of U.S.-Japan naval battle 1944.
- signifyings — indications
- silly money — an absurdly large or, less commonly, small amount of money
- sindonology — the scientific study of the Shroud of Turin.
- singability — to utter words or sounds in succession with musical modulations of the voice; vocalize melodically.
- singularity — the state, fact, or quality of being singular.
- sinisterity — left-handedness
- siphonogamy — a mode of pollination in which pollen tubes develop to facilitate the passage of male cells to eggs
- sir anthony — Sir Anthony, Van Dyck, Sir Anthony.
- sir stanley — Arthur Penrhyn [pen-rin] /ˈpɛn rɪn/ (Show IPA), (Dean Stanley) 1815–81, English clergyman and author.
- sixteenthly — in sixteenth place
- sixty-ninth — next after the sixty-eighth; being the ordinal number for 69.
- sixty-seven — a cardinal number, 60 plus 7.
- skyscraping — of or like a skyscraper; very high: a skyscraping chimney.
- slant rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- slaveringly — in a slavering manner
- slightingly — derogatory and disparaging; belittling.
- smart money — money invested or wagered by experienced investors or bettors.
- snakeblenny — any of several pricklebacks of the genus Lumpenus.
- snatchingly — in a snatching manner
- sneaky pete — a homemade or inferior liquor or wine.
- snobography — an account or description of snobs
- snowy egret — a white egret, Egretta thula, of the warmer parts of the Western Hemisphere: formerly hunted in great numbers for its plumes, the species is now protected and has recovered.
- snowy river — a river in SE Australia, rising in SE New South Wales: waters diverted through a system of dams and tunnels across the watershed into the Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers for hydroelectric power and to provide water for irrigation. Length: 426 km (265 miles)
- soft hyphen — a hyphen that is used only in breaking a word at the end of a line of text.
- solenocytes — 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.
- solenoglyph — any poisonous snake of the viper family with hollow, paired, erectile fangs
- soothsaying — the practice or art of foretelling events.
- south yemen — Yemen (def 3).
- sovereignly — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
- soybean oil — a pale-yellow oil derived from soybeans by expression or solvent extraction: used as a food and in the manufacture of soap, candles, inks, paints, varnishes, etc.
- spanish fly — Also called cantharides. a preparation of powdered blister beetles, especially the Spanish fly, used medicinally as a counterirritant, diuretic, and aphrodisiac.
- sparklingly — in a sparkling manner
- sphagnology — the study of sphagna
- spin a yarn — If you say that someone spins a yarn, you mean that they tell a story that is not true, often an interesting or imaginative one.
- spin-drying — a technique for extracting water from clothes, linen, etc, by spinning them in a perforated drum
- spinel ruby — ruby spinel.
- spiny-rayed — spiny-finned.
- splenectomy — excision or removal of the spleen.