11-letter words containing y, n
- spy-hopping — a vertical half-rise out of the water performed by a whale in order to view the surroundings. a springing bounce in tall grasses performed by certain land mammals, as foxes and wolves, to view the surroundings.
- squeakingly — in a squeaking manner
- squint-eyed — affected with or characterized by strabismus.
- squintingly — in a way that makes one squint
- stanley cup — a trophy emblematic since 1926 of the championship of the National Hockey League, composed of Canadian and U.S. professional teams.
- staphylinid — rove beetle.
- startlingly — creating sudden alarm, surprise, or wonder; astonishing.
- 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
- stenotypist — shorthand in which alphabetic letters or types are used to produce shortened forms of words or groups of words.
- stereophony — the state or condition of being stereophonic.
- stipendiary — receiving a stipend; performing services for regular pay.
- 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 point — a village in SE New York, on the Hudson: site of a strategic fort in the Revolutionary War.
- stony-broke — completely without money; penniless
- stony-faced — having a rigid, expressionless face.
- streamingly — in a streaming manner
- 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.
- stringently — rigorously binding or exacting; strict; severe: stringent laws.
- strongyloid — of or relating to a strongyle
- study up on — to make a careful study of
- stultifying — to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.
- stylization — to design in or cause to conform to a particular style, as of representation or treatment in art; conventionalize.
- sub-company — subsidiary company.
- sub-economy — thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc.
- subcontrary — one of two propositions that can both be true but cannot both be false.
- subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
- subindustry — a subdivision of an industry
- subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
- subordinary — any of several heraldic bearings of secondary importance to the ordinary, such as the lozenge, the orle, and the fret
- succulently — full of juice; juicy.
- sufficiency — the state or fact of being sufficient; adequacy.
- sugar candy — large crystals of sugar formed by suspending strings in a strong sugar solution that hardens on the strings, used chiefly for sweetening coffee
- sugar-candy — excessively sweet; saccharine: sugar-candy stories in family magazines.
- suisun city — a town in central California.
- sun yat-sen — 1866–1925, Chinese political and revolutionary leader.
- sunday baby — an illegitimate child.
- sunday best — Sunday clothes.
- sunday week — a week (counting backward or forward) from Sunday (or Monday, Tuesday, etc.)
- sundry shop — (in Malaysia) a shop, similar to a delicatessen, that sells predominantly Chinese foodstuffs
- superagency — a very large agency, especially a large government agency that oversees smaller ones.
- superdainty — very dainty
- superlunary — situated above or beyond the moon.
- supply line — A supply line is a route along which goods and equipment are transported to an army during a war.
- sustainably — in a way that allows for continual use of a natural resource without depleting it or causing environmental damage: sustainably grown coffee.
- swann's way — the first part of the very long, seven-volume novel by Marcel Proust, 'In Remembrance of Things Past' (also called 'In Search of Lost Time'), in which Charles Swann meets his eventual wife, Odette; one of its major themes is memory
- swansea bay — an inlet of the Bristol Channel, on which the port of Swansea stands