11-letter words containing y, o, l, a
- royal icing — a hard white icing made from egg whites and icing sugar, used for coating and decorating cakes, esp fruit cakes
- royal jelly — a viscous substance secreted from the pharyngeal glands of worker honeybees, fed to all larvae during their first few days and afterward only to those larvae selected to be queens.
- safety bolt — a bolt or lock on a door or gate that cannot be moved from the outside
- safety lock — a lock designed to prevent picking.
- salaciously — lustful or lecherous.
- salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
- sartorially — of or relating to tailors or their trade: sartorial workmanship.
- sceuophylax — a keeper of sacred vessels
- school year — the months of the year during which school is open and attendance at school is required.
- sclerocauly — the feature of having a hard, dry stem
- 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.
- self-parody — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- semasiology — semantics, especially the study of semantic change.
- sensorially — with respect to sensation; in a sensorial way
- shadow play — a show in which shadows of puppets, flat figures, or live actors are projected onto a lighted screen.
- sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
- sigmoidally — in the form of a sigmoid
- sociability — the act or an instance of being sociable.
- sock cymbal — high-hat
- solar cycle — the variation of sunspots, prominences, flares, and other solar activity through an 11-year cycle.
- solvability — capable of being solved, as a problem.
- somatically — of the body; bodily; physical.
- soothfastly — in a soothfast manner
- sorbability — the ability of something to absorb
- southwardly — toward the south
- soybean oil — a pale-yellow oil derived from soybeans by expression or solvent extraction: used as a food and in the manufacture of soap, candles, inks, paints, varnishes, etc.
- spasmolysis — the relaxation or relief of muscle spasm.
- spasmolytic — of or noting spasmolysis.
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation
- sphagnology — the study of sphagna
- stary oskol — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, SW of Voronezh.
- statutorily — of, relating to, or of the nature of a statute.
- steatolysis — the digestive process whereby fats are emulsified and then hydrolysed to fatty acids and glycerine
- stomatology — the science dealing with the mouth and its diseases.
- stony coral — a true coral consisting of numerous anthozoan polyps embedded in the calcareous material that they secrete.
- storability — capable of being stored for considerable time without loss of freshness or usability.
- stroke play — medal play.
- stylization — to design in or cause to conform to a particular style, as of representation or treatment in art; conventionalize.
- stylography — the art of writing, tracing, drawing, etc., with a style.
- syllabogram — a written symbol representing a single syllable
- sympetalous — gamopetalous.
- synodically — by the authority of a synod
- synonymical — a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the language, as happy, joyful, elated. A dictionary of synonyms and antonyms (or opposites), such as Thesaurus.com, is called a thesaurus.
- synsepalous — gamosepalous.
- szombathely — a city in W Hungary: founded a.d. 48.
- table money — an allowance for official entertaining of visitors, etc, esp in the army
- tachysterol — an isomer of ergosterol, C28H44O, formed during the production of calciferol by the irradiation of ergosterol
- tally-woman — a mistress
- tax holiday — a period of time during which the government reduces or suspends the collection of a tax, as payroll, property, or sales tax: The state legislature declared a hurricane preparedness tax holiday for items like flashlights and battery-powered radios.