11-letter words containing y, e, s
- photosystem — either of two pigment-containing systems, photosystem I or II, in which the light-dependent chemical reactions of photosynthesis occur in the chloroplasts of plants
- phraseology — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
- physicalise — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
- physicalize — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
- physiolater — somebody who worships nature
- physiometry — measurement of the physiological functions of the body.
- physitheism — the attribution of physical form to gods and religious beings
- phytosterol — Biochemistry. any of various sterols obtained from plants.
- pinocytoses — (of a cell) to take within by means of pinocytosis.
- placelessly — in a placeless manner
- playfulness — full of play or fun; sportive; frolicsome.
- plisetskaya — Maya (Mikhailovna) [mah-yuh myi-khahy-luh v-nuh] /ˈmɑ yə myɪˈxaɪ ləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1925–2015, Soviet ballet dancer.
- plyometrics — a system of exercise in which the muscles are repeatedly stretched and suddenly contracted
- poetry slam — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
- polyestrous — having several estrus cycles annually or during a breeding season.
- polygenesis — origin from more than one ancestral species or line.
- polymerizes — to subject to polymerization.
- polysorbate — any of a class of emulsifying and dispersing agents used in various foods and pharmaceutical preparations.
- polyspermia — the secretion of an excessive amount of semen.
- polystyrene — a clear plastic or stiff foam, a polymer of styrene, used chiefly as an insulator in refrigerators and air conditioners.
- polysulfide — a sulfide whose molecules contain two or more atoms of sulfur.
- ponderosity — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- ponderously — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- possessedly — in a possessed manner
- posteriorly — situated behind or at the rear of; hinder (opposed to anterior).
- postpuberty — the period after puberty
- preassembly — an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose: The principal will speak to all the students at Friday's assembly.
- 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
- presbycusia — impaired hearing due to old age.
- presbycusis — the gradual loss of acute hearing with advancing age
- presbyteral — of or relating to a presbyter or presbytery
- presenility — premature old age.
- present-day — current; modern: present-day techniques; present-day English.
- press money — prest money.
- press party — a party given for reporters and photographers exclusively or particularly to get publicity, as for the introduction of a new product, the maiden voyage of a liner, or the like.
- prest money — a sum of money advanced to men enlisting in the navy or the army, given to bind the bargain and as an inducement.
- presumingly — presumptuous.
- presynaptic — being or occurring on the transmitting end of a discharge across a synapse.
- privy purse — a sum from the public revenues allotted to the sovereign for personal expenses.
- pro-slavery — favoring slavery.
- professedly — allegedly; pretendedly: He is only professedly poor.
- profusively — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- prokaryotes — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- prokopyevsk — a city in the S central Russian Federation in Asia, NW of Novokuznetsk.
- prophesying — to foretell or predict.
- propriety's — conformity to established standards of good or proper behavior or manners.
- prosecutory — of, relating to, or concerned with prosecution.
- proselyting — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
- proselytism — the act or fact of becoming a proselyte; conversion.