11-letter words containing s, y, n
- isobutylene — a colorless, very volatile liquid or flammable gas, C 4 H 8 , used chiefly in the manufacture of butyl rubber.
- 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.
- jejunostomy — an artificial opening from the jejunum through the abdominal wall, created for the drainage of jejunal contents or for feeding.
- jersey pine — Virginia pine.
- joylessness — The state or condition of being joyless; lack of joy; unjoy.
- kansas city — a city in W Missouri, at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers.
- karl jansky — Karl Guthe, 1905–50, U.S. engineer: pioneer in radio astronomy.
- key station — a radio or television station that originates most of a network's broadcasting.
- khmelnitsky — a city in W Ukraine, SW of Kiev.
- kidney dish — medical: curved basin
- kinesiology — the science dealing with the interrelationship of the physiological processes and anatomy of the human body with respect to movement.
- king's lynn — a historic town in Norfolk, England.
- kinky boots — boots with a very high heel and pointed toe, reaching to the thigh and often made of a shiny material, which are intended to look provocative and sexy
- kittenishly — In a kittenish manner.
- krasnoyarsk — a territory of the Russian Federation in N and central Asia. 827,507 sq. mi. (2,143,243 sq. km).
- krasny luch — a city in SE Ukraine, E of Donetsk.
- la fresnaye — Roger de [raw-zhey duh] /rɔˈʒeɪ də/ (Show IPA), 1885–1925, French painter.
- ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.
- larcenously — In a larcenous manner.
- laryngismus — Laryngospasm.
- lay analyst — a psychoanalyst who does not have a medical degree.
- lay eyes on — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- liquescency — The quality or state of being liquescent.
- loadsamoney — an extremely wealthy person
- loony tunes — Informal. loony1 .
- loony-tunes — Informal. loony1 .
- 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.
- low-density — having a low concentration.
- lucy stoner — a person who advocates the retention of the maiden name by married women. Compare Stone (def 5).
- lychnoscope — lowside window.
- lymph nodes — any of the glandlike masses of tissue in the lymphatic vessels containing cells that become lymphocytes.
- lymphokines — Plural form of lymphokine.
- lymphonodus — (anatomy) lymph node.
- lyosorption — the adsorption of a liquid on a solid surface, esp of a solvent on suspended particles
- lysogenesis — production of a lysogen.
- masculinely — In a masculine manner.
- masculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- mass-energy — mass and energy considered as equivalent and interconvertible, according to the theory of relativity
- matronymics — Plural form of matronymic.
- mayonnaisey — Resembling mayonnaise; mayonnaiselike.
- melanocytes — Plural form of melanocyte.
- memory span — the capacity of short-term memory, usually between 5 and 10 items
- menstrually — In a menstrual manner; in terms of the menses.
- mentoplasty — plastic surgery to correct a functional or cosmetic deformity of the chin.
- 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.
- metanalysis — a shift in the division between words in a phrase; misdivision: “A nickname” resulted from metanalysis of “an ekename.”.
- misanalysis — the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (opposed to synthesis).