11-letter words containing y, e, s, a, n
- nefariously — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
- nematocysts — A specialized cell in the tentacles of a jellyfish or other coelenterate, containing a barbed or venomous coiled thread that can be projected in self-defense or to capture prey.
- neuroplasty — Any surgery to repair nerve tissue.
- news agency — a business organization that gathers news for transmittal to its subscribers. Compare press association.
- nosy parker — a prying person
- nurserymaid — Nursemaid.
- observantly — quick to notice or perceive; alert.
- obstinately — firmly or stubbornly adhering to one's purpose, opinion, etc.; not yielding to argument, persuasion, or entreaty.
- overanalyse — Alternative spelling of overanalyze.
- oxygen mask — a masklike device placed or worn over the nose and mouth when inhaling supplementary oxygen from an attached tank.
- oysterwoman — a woman who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- parasensory — extrasensory.
- patsy cline — Patsy (Virginia Patterson Hensley) 1932–63, U.S. country singer.
- pentagynous — (of plants) belonging to the order Pentagynia, characterized by the presence of five styles or pistils
- pentastylos — a pentastyle building, as a classical temple.
- person-year — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on an ideal amount of work done by one person in a year consisting of a standard number of person-days.
- personality — the visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others: He has a pleasing personality.
- phalanstery — the buildings occupied by a phalanx. the community itself.
- playfulness — full of play or fun; sportive; frolicsome.
- predynastic — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the first dynasty of a nation, especially the period in Egypt before c3200 b.c.
- presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
- present-day — current; modern: present-day techniques; present-day English.
- presynaptic — being or occurring on the transmitting end of a discharge across a synapse.
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- questionary — a questionnaire.
- resultantly — that results; following as a result or consequence.
- revisionary — the act or work of revising.
- safety zone — A safety zone is a place in the middle of a road crossing where you can wait before you cross the other half of the road.
- salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
- sand myrtle — an evergreen shrub, Leiophyllum buxifolium, of the heath family, native to the eastern U.S., having simple, leathery leaves and clusters of white or pink flowers.
- sarcenchyme — the connective tissue of some sponges
- say amen to — to express strong approval of or support for (an assertion, hope, etc)
- scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- scent spray — perfume that comes in an aerosol bottle
- schenectady — a city in E New York, on the Mohawk River.
- scrapepenny — a person who is stingy; a miser
- screamingly — If you say that something is, for example, screamingly funny or screamingly boring, you mean that it is extremely funny or extremely boring.
- searchingly — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- seasonality — the state or quality of being seasonal or dependent on the seasons: the seasonality of Halloween costumes.
- secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- sedimentary — of, relating to, or of the nature of sediment.
- seditionary — of or relating to sedition; seditious.
- seismonasty — a nastic movement in response to shock, esp the rapid folding of the leaflets of the sensitive plant due to changes in turgor pressure caused by vibration
- senior year — final year of school or college
- sensorially — with respect to sensation; in a sensorial way
- seventh-day — designating certain Christian denominations that make Saturday their chief day of rest and religious observance: Seventh-Day Adventists.
- shaggy-mane — an edible inky-cap mushroom, Coprinus comatus, having an elongated, shaggy pileus.
- sibuyan sea — a sea in the Philippines S of Luzon and E of Mindanao: site of U.S.-Japan naval battle 1944.
- sir stanley — Arthur Penrhyn [pen-rin] /ˈpɛn rɪn/ (Show IPA), (Dean Stanley) 1815–81, English clergyman and author.
- slant rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.