11-letter words containing s, y, n
- farawayness — the state of being faraway
- fashionably — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- feloniously — Law. pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a felony: felonious homicide; felonious intent.
- festinately — hurried.
- fifty-seven — a cardinal number, 50 plus 7.
- flamboyants — Plural form of flamboyant.
- flucytosine — a synthetic whitish crystalline powder, C 4 H 4 FN 3 O, with antifungal activity, used in the treatment of systemic and eye fungal infections caused by susceptible strains of Candida or Cryptococcus.
- fly-fishing — Angling. a method of fishing in which fly casting is used.
- flying fish — any fish of the family Exocoetidae, having stiff and greatly enlarged pectoral fins enabling it to glide considerable distances through the air after leaping from the water.
- flying suit — a one-piece garment covering the whole body, worn by aircraft pilots and other crew members
- flying-spot — denoting an electronic system in which a rapidly moving spot of light is used to encode or decode data, for example to obtain a television signal by scanning a photographic film or slide
- flyspecking — A technique for painting furniture with flicked drops of paint.
- foresignify — to signify in advance
- forty winks — a short nap.
- forty-seven — a cardinal number, 40 plus 7.
- fosteringly — In a way that fosters or encourages.
- fray bentos — a port in W Uruguay, on the River Uruguay: noted for meat-packing. Pop: 23 122 (2004 est)
- freemasonry — secret or tacit brotherhood; fellowship; fundamental bond or rapport: the freemasonry of those who hunger for knowledge.
- freestyling — the practice of improvising scenes when making a film or performing a play
- frontlessly — in a frontless or shameless manner
- frontolysis — Meteorology. the dissipation or decrease of a front or frontal zone.
- gastrodynia — (pathology) gastralgia (stomach pain).
- gastromancy — a form of divination by interpreting words and sounds seeming to come from the stomach
- gay gordons — an energetic old-time dance
- genesiology — (obsolete) The study of generation (reproduction).
- genioplasty — Mentoplasty.
- geodynamics — (used with a singular verb) the science dealing with dynamic processes or forces within the earth.
- geosyncline — a portion of the earth's crust subjected to downward warping during a large span of geologic time; a geosynclinal fold.
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
- glossodynia — a condition characterized by a burning or tingling mouth region
- glutinosity — The quality of being glutinous or viscous.
- glutinously — In a glutinous manner.
- glycogenous — of or relating to the formation of sugar in the liver.
- gnetophytes — Plural form of gnetophyte.
- god's penny — earnest money.
- gonycampsis — abnormal curvature of the knee.
- grandiosely — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandiosity — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- green bytes — (jargon) (Or "green words") Meta-information embedded in a file, such as the length of the file or its name; as opposed to keeping such information in a separate description file or record. By extension, the non-data bits in any self-describing format. "A GIF file contains, among other things, green bytes describing the packing method for the image". At a meeting of the SHARE Systems Division, November 22, 1964, in Washington, DC, George Mealy of IBM described the new block tape format for FORTRAN in which unformatted binary records had a Control Word. George used green chalk to describe it. No one liked the contents of the Green Word (not information, wrong location, etc.) so Conrad Weisert and Channing Jackson made badges saying "Stamp out Green Words". This was the first computer badge. Compare out-of-band, zigamorph, fence.
- gymnanthous — achlamydeous.
- gymnasiarch — (in ancient Greece) a magistrate who superintended the gymnasia and public games in certain cities.
- gymnastical — Alternative form of gymnastic.
- gymnogynous — having a naked ovary.
- gymnosperms — Plural form of gymnosperm.
- gymnospermy — The property of being gymnospermous.
- gynaecomast — a man who suffers from gynaecomastia
- gynogenesis — a type of reproduction by parthenogenesis that requires stimulation by a sperm to activate the egg into development but occurs without fusion of sperm and egg nuclei.
- gynostegium — a specialized caplike mass of tissue covering a gynoecium.
- gynostemium — the united stamens and pistil of an orchid.
- gypsy winch — a small winch or crab.