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11-letter words containing s, y

  • astral body — Astronomy. a star, planet, comet, or other heavenly body.
  • astringency — An astringent taste.
  • astrobotany — the branch of botany that investigates the possibility that plants grow on other planets
  • astrocytoma — a tumour of the nervous system which originates in and consists mainly of astrocytes
  • astrography — The art of describing or delineating the stars; a description or mapping of the heavens.
  • astrophyton — The giant basket star, an early Mesozoic invertebrate.
  • asymmetries — Plural form of asymmetry.
  • asynartetic — having or containing two different types of metre
  • asynclitism — The position of a baby in the uterus such that the head is presenting first, tilted to the shoulder and thus no longer in line with the birth canal.
  • asyncronous — (spelling)   It's spelled "asynchronous".
  • at any cost — If you say that something must be done at any cost, you are emphasizing that it must be done, even if this requires a lot of effort or money.
  • atrociously — extremely or shockingly wicked, cruel, or brutal: an atrocious crime.
  • attophysics — the physics of structures and artefacts with dimensions in the attometre range or of devices, such as lasers, capable of producing pulses with a duration measured in attoseconds
  • attorneyism — the slyness and cleverness associated with attorneys
  • audaciously — extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless: an audacious explorer.
  • audiotypist — a typist trained to type from a dictating machine
  • austromancy — Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds or cloud formations.
  • autosomally — in the manner of an autosome
  • axisymmetry — any symmetry formed around an axis
  • b1 security — Orange Book
  • b2 security — Orange Book
  • b3 security — Orange Book
  • baby shower — gift-giving party for unborn baby
  • baby sister — a younger sister
  • baby-scales — scales used for weighing babies
  • baby-sitter — a person who takes care of a child or children while the parents are out
  • babyboomers — Plural form of babyboomer.
  • babyishness — The state or quality of being babyish.
  • babylonians — of or relating to Babylon or Babylonia.
  • babysitters — Plural form of babysitter.
  • babysitting — to take charge of a child while the parents are temporarily away.
  • bacchylides — flourished 5th century b.c, Greek poet.
  • baldcypress — any of a genus (Taxodium, esp. T. distichum) of cone-bearing trees of the baldcypress family, that grows in the swamps of the SE U.S. and normally sheds its small, pointed needles in the fall
  • ballplayers — Plural form of ballplayer.
  • baptismally — In a baptismal way; through baptism.
  • bárány test — a test which detects diseases of the semicircular canals of the inner ear, devised by Robert Bárány (1876–1936)
  • barbarously — uncivilized; wild; savage; crude.
  • barley sack — a burlap bag.
  • barnyardism — a smutty or indecent word or expression.
  • baryshnikov — Mikhail. born 1948, Soviet-born ballet dancer, who defected (1974) to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet: director (1980–90) of the American Ballet Theatre
  • base memory — (hardware, jargon)   The lowest 640 kilobytes of memory in an IBM PC-compatible computer running MS-DOS. Other PC operating systems can usually compensate and "ignore" the fact that there is a 640K limit to base memory. This was put in place because the original CPU - the Intel 8088 - could only access one megabyte of memory, and IBM wanted to reserve the upper 384KB for device drivers. The high memory area (HMA) lies above 640KB and can be accessed on MS-DOS computers that have an A20 handler.
  • basil thyme — a plant, Acinos thymoides, of the mint family, having egg-shaped leaves and purplish flowers.
  • basil-thyme — a European plant, Acinos arvensis, having clusters of small violet-and-white flowers: family Lamiaceae
  • basipetally — in the manner of a basipetal
  • bass player — a player of a double bass or a bass guitar
  • bathyscaphe — a navigable, submersible vessel for exploring the depths of the ocean, having a separate, overhead chamber filled with gasoline for buoyancy and iron or steel weights for ballast.
  • bathysphere — a strong steel deep-sea diving sphere, lowered by cable
  • battery set — a set of batteries required for a particular purpose
  • bawdy house — a brothel.
  • bawdyhouses — Plural form of bawdyhouse.
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