11-letter words containing y, e, i, s
- euryoecious — (of an organism) able to live under variable conditions
- eurypterids — Plural form of eurypterid.
- excessively — To a greater degree or in greater amounts than is necessary, normal, or desirable; inordinately.
- exclusively — To the exclusion of others ; only; solely.
- exclusivity — The state of being exclusive.
- excursively — In an excursive manner.
- expansively — In an expansive manner.
- expansivity — The amount a material expands or contracts per unit length due to a one-degree change in temperature.
- expensively — In an expensive manner.
- expiscatory — acting to expiscate; tending to expiscate
- explosively — In an explosive manner.
- expressibly — In an expressible way.
- exquisitely — In an exquisite manner.
- extensively — In an extensive manner, widely.
- extorsively — in an extorsive manner
- facetiously — not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
- fairy stone — a fossil or other oddly shaped stone or crystal.
- faithlessly — In a faithless manner.
- feasibility — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
- feloniously — Law. pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a felony: felonious homicide; felonious intent.
- ferociously — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- festinately — hurried.
- field study — observation of nature in the wild
- fiery cross — a burning cross, the rallying symbol of ancient Scotland and later of the Highlanders in case of war; later adopted by other organizations, including the Ku Klux Klan.
- fifty-seven — a cardinal number, 50 plus 7.
- file system — (operating system) (FS, or "filesystem") 1. A system for organizing directories and files, generally in terms of how it is implemented in the disk operating system. E.g., "The Macintosh file system is just dandy as long as you don't have to interface it with any other file systems". 2. The collection of files and directories stored on a given drive (floppy drive, hard drive, disk partition, logical drive, RAM drive, etc.). E.g., "mount attaches a named file system to the file system hierarchy at the pathname location directory [...]" -- Unix manual page for "mount(8)". As an extension of this sense, "file system" is sometimes used to refer to the representatation of the file system's organisation (e.g. its file allocation table) as opposed the actual content of the files in the file system.
- fiscal year — any yearly period without regard to the calendar year, at the end of which a firm, government, etc., determines its financial condition.
- 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.
- flyspecking — A technique for painting furniture with flicked drops of paint.
- foresignify — to signify in advance
- foster city — a city in W California.
- fosteringly — In a way that fosters or encourages.
- freestyling — the practice of improvising scenes when making a film or performing a play
- fruitlessly — In a fruitless manner.
- 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.
- geophysical — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- geosyncline — a portion of the earth's crust subjected to downward warping during a large span of geologic time; a geosynclinal fold.
- glycosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a glycoside.
- grandiosely — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- guilelessly — free from guile; sincere; honest; straightforward; frank.
- guiltlessly — free from guilt; innocent.
- 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.
- gypsiferous — containing gypsum.
- haemoptysis — (British spelling) alternative spelling of hemoptysis.
- haines city — a town in central Florida.
- hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.