11-letter words containing s, y, r, o
- soldier fly — any of several flies of the family Stratiomyidae, characterized by brightly colored abdominal stripes.
- sorbability — the ability of something to absorb
- sorrowfully — full of or feeling sorrow; grieved; sad.
- soteriology — the doctrine of salvation through Jesus Christ.
- sothic year — the fixed year of the ancient Egyptians, determined by the heliacal rising of Sirius, and equivalent to 365 days.
- sour cherry — a cherry, Prunus cerasus, characterized by gray bark and the spreading habit of its branches.
- south tyrol — a former part of the Austrian state of Tyrol: ceded to Italy in 1919, becoming the Bolzano and Trento provinces of the Trentino-Alto Adige Autonomous Region. Area: 14 037 sq km (5420 sq miles)
- southwardly — toward the south
- 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.
- spectrology — the study of ghosts, phantoms, or apparitions.
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation
- spermophyte — spermatophyte.
- sphygmogram — a tracing or diagram produced by a sphygmograph.
- spirography — the study of breathing using a spirograph
- sporadicity — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- sporocystic — of or like a sporocyst
- spot survey — a survey taken immediately and at random
- spotted ray — any of various species of ray with irregular markings on the back
- stary oskol — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, SW of Voronezh.
- stasimorphy — structural modification by arrested development
- statutorily — of, relating to, or of the nature of a statute.
- stenochromy — the art of printing designs made of more than one colour using a single impression
- stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
- stereometry — the measurement of volumes.
- stereophony — the state or condition of being stereophonic.
- stereoscopy — the study of the stereoscope and its techniques.
- stereotyped — reproduced in or by stereotype plates.
- stereotypes — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- stereotypic — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- stichometry — the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
- stony brook — a town in N Long Island, in SE New York.
- stony coral — a true coral consisting of numerous anthozoan polyps embedded in the calcareous material that they secrete.
- stony-broke — completely without money; penniless
- storability — capable of being stored for considerable time without loss of freshness or usability.
- stormstayed — isolated or unable to travel because of adverse weather conditions, esp a snowstorm
- storyteller — a person who tells or writes stories or anecdotes.
- storywriter — a person who writes stories, tales, fables, etc.
- stratocracy — government by the military.
- streetology — knowledge of how to get along in an urban neighborhood; street smarts.
- strenuosity — characterized by vigorous exertion, as action, efforts, life, etc.: a strenuous afternoon of hunting.
- strenuously — characterized by vigorous exertion, as action, efforts, life, etc.: a strenuous afternoon of hunting.
- stroke play — medal play.
- strongyloid — of or relating to a strongyle
- strumectomy — excision of part or all of a goiter.
- study group — an informal gathering of people who convene regularly to exchange ideas and information on a specific subject.
- styliferous — having a style (part of the female organ of a plant)
- stylography — the art of writing, tracing, drawing, etc., with a style.
- subcategory — a subordinate category or a division of a category.