11-letter words containing y, p, s, i
- spinel ruby — ruby spinel.
- spiny-rayed — spiny-finned.
- spirit away — the principle of conscious life; the vital principle in humans, animating the body or mediating between body and soul.
- spiritually — of, relating to, or consisting of spirit; incorporeal.
- spiritualty — Often, spiritualties. ecclesiastical property or revenue.
- spirography — the study of breathing using a spirograph
- spondylitic — inflammation of the vertebrae.
- spondylitis — inflammation of the vertebrae.
- spondylosis — immobility and fusion of vertebral joints.
- spontaneity — the state, quality, or fact of being spontaneous.
- sporadicity — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- sporocystic — of or like a sporocyst
- spray paint — paint in aerosol form
- spray skirt — a piece of waterproof material that fits around the paddler and opening of a kayak to keep water out of the craft.
- spray-paint — to cover, mark, draw, or write with spray paint.
- spreadingly — in a spreading manner
- 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.
- staphylinid — rove beetle.
- staphylitis — inflammation of the soft palate or uvula
- stasimorphy — structural modification by arrested development
- steatopygia — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
- steatopygic — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
- stenotypist — shorthand in which alphabetic letters or types are used to produce shortened forms of words or groups of words.
- stereotypic — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- sticky tape — adhesive strip
- stipendiary — receiving a stipend; performing services for regular pay.
- stony point — a village in SE New York, on the Hudson: site of a strategic fort in the Revolutionary War.
- stylopodium — a glandular disk or expansion surmounting the ovary and supporting the styles in plants of the parsley family.
- superdainty — very dainty
- superfamily — a category of related families within an order or suborder.
- superfluity — the state of being superfluous.
- superiority — the quality or condition of being superior.
- supervisory — of, relating to, or having supervision.
- supply line — A supply line is a route along which goods and equipment are transported to an army during a war.
- supply ship — vessel carrying supplies
- supply-side — of or relating to a theory that stresses the reduction of taxes, especially for those of higher income, as a means of encouraging business investment and growth and stabilizing the economy.
- suppository — a solid, conical mass of medicinal substance that melts upon insertion into the rectum or vagina.
- survey ship — a vessel designed to carry out research and surveying
- sycophantic — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sympathetic — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- sympathique — pleasing or congenial
- sympathizer — a person who sympathizes.
- symphonious — harmonious; in harmonious agreement or accord.
- symposiarch — the president, director, or master of a symposium.
- symptomatic — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
- syncopation — Music. a shifting of the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats.
- syncopative — relating to syncopation
- synoptistic — relating to the work of a synoptist
- synthespian — a computer-generated image of a film actor, esp used in place of the real actor when shooting special effects or stunts
- syphilology — the branch of medicine concerned with the study and treatment of syphilis