10-letter words containing y, s
- overstorey — the highest level of trees in a rainforest
- oversupply — an excessive supply.
- overwisely — in a pretentiously wise manner
- oxygenless — without oxygen
- oxysulfide — a sulfide in which part of the sulfur is replaced by oxygen.
- oxyuriasis — human infection with pinworms.
- oyster bay — a town on the N shore of Long Island, in SE New York. Theodore Roosevelt homestead nearby.
- oyster bed — a place where oysters breed or are cultivated.
- oyster cap — an edible, brownish-gray to white mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, that grows in clusters on fallen trees and their stumps.
- oysterfish — the oyster toadfish. See under toadfish (def 1).
- ozonolysis — the reaction of ozone with hydrocarbons.
- paddy last — the last person in a race or competition
- panegyrist — a person who panegyrizes; eulogist.
- pantywaist — Informal. a weak, effeminate man; sissy.
- parablepsy — a hallucination
- paracyesis — ectopic pregnancy.
- paraphyses — one of the erect, sterile filaments often growing among the reproductive organs in many fungi, mosses, and ferns.
- paraphysis — one of the erect, sterile filaments often growing among the reproductive organs in many fungi, mosses, and ferns.
- parastichy — one of a number of seemingly secondary spirals or oblique ranks winding around the stem or axis to the right and left in a spiral arrangement of leaves, scales, etc., where the internodes are short and the members closely crowded, as in the houseleek and the pine cone.
- paronymous — containing the same root or stem, as the words wise and wisdom.
- paroxysmal — any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion: paroxysms of rage.
- paroxysmic — any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion: paroxysms of rage.
- partisanly — in a partisan manner
- party list — of or relating to a system of voting in which people vote for a party rather than for a candidate. Parties are assigned the number of seats which reflects their share of the vote
- pasigraphy — a system of writing intelligible to persons of all languages; a universal language
- passageway — a way for passing into, through, or out of something, as within a building or between buildings; a corridor, hall, alley, catwalk, or the like.
- passerby's — a person passing by.
- passerbyes — a person passing by.
- passionary — passional (def 3).
- pastorally — having the simplicity, charm, serenity, or other characteristics generally attributed to rural areas: pastoral scenery; the pastoral life.
- pastry bag — a conical tube with a patterned hole at one end, fitted over the opening of a cloth funnel (pastry bag) for shaping icings, food pastes, etc., as they are forced through by squeezing the bag.
- pastry mix — a product that can be mixed with water to make pastry
- pastrycook — a person who makes pastry or pastries
- pausefully — in a pauseful manner
- pdsa cycle — Plan, Do, See, Approve (from Japan).
- peerlessly — in a peerless manner
- pelycosaur — any of a group of large primitive reptiles belonging to the extinct order Pelycosauria, abundant in North America and Europe during the Permian Period, often having a tall spinal sail.
- penis envy — the repressed wish of a female to possess a penis.
- penny post — (formerly) any of various postal systems delivering mail for a penny a letter.
- penny-wise — greatly concerned with saving small sums of money
- pennycress — any of several plants belonging to herbs of the genus Thlaspi, of the mustard family, especially T. arvense, of Europe, bearing somewhat round, flat pods.
- pensionary — a pensioner.
- pentastyle — having five columns.
- peptolysis — causing the hydrolysis of peptides.
- percursory — passing through rapidly; cursory
- perigynous — situated around the pistil on the edge of a cuplike receptacle, as stamens or petals.
- perilously — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
- perimysium — the connective tissue surrounding bundles of skeletal muscle fibers.
- perrysburg — a town in NW Ohio.
- person-day — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on an ideal amount of work done by one person in one working day.