12-letter words containing a, n, t, s, y
- clytemnestra — the wife of Agamemnon, whom she killed on his return from the Trojan War
- commensality — eating together at the same table.
- compensatory — Compensatory payments involve money paid as compensation.
- confiscatory — involving confiscation
- consecratory — That consecrates.
- conservatory — A conservatory is a room with glass walls and a glass roof, which is attached to a house. People often grow plants in a conservatory.
- consignatory — a cosignatory
- conspiratory — the act of conspiring.
- constabulary — In Britain and some other countries, a constabulary is the police force of a particular area.
- consultatory — Formed by, or resulting from, consultation; advisory.
- consummately — to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.
- consummatory — to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.
- contagiously — capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object: contagious diseases.
- country seat — A country seat is a large house with land in the country which is owned by someone who also owns a house in a town.
- cranioplasty — Surgical repair of a defect or deformity in the skull.
- cryptanalyst — the procedures, processes, methods, etc., used to translate or interpret secret writings, as codes and ciphers, for which the key is unknown.
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- cryptomonads — Plural form of cryptomonad.
- crystalising — Present participle of crystalise.
- cybercasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
- cytochalasin — any of a group of metabolites derived from fungus that interfere with cell processes
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- desolatingly — in a way that desolates, in a desolating fashion
- diisocyanate — (chemistry) Any compound containing two isocyanate anions or functional groups, but especially such an organic compound used in the preparation of polyurethane.
- discordantly — disagreeable to the ear; dissonant; harsh.
- dispensatory — a book in which the composition, preparation, and uses of medicinal substances are described; a nonofficial pharmacopoeia.
- drinks party — a cocktail party
- dye transfer — a photographic printing method by which a full-color image is produced by the printing of separate cyan, magenta, and yellow images from individual gelatin relief matrices.
- dynamometers — Plural form of dynamometer.
- dynastically — In a dynastic (or dynastical) way.
- dysenterical — Alternative form of dysenteric.
- dystopianism — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- east germany — a former country in central Europe: created in 1949 from the Soviet zone of occupied Germany established in 1945: reunited with West Germany in 1990. 41,827 sq. mi. (108,333 sq. km). Capital: East Berlin.
- easter bunny — rabbit: brings chocolate eggs
- enantiostyly — the asymmetrical deflection of the style, either to the left or to the right of the floral axis
- energy-smart — using electrical power in an efficient or economical way
- enhypostasia — personalities existing in union (Jesus Christ and God the Son)
- enhypostatic — relating to enhypostasia
- enthesopathy — (pathology) A disorder of entheses (bone attachments).
- entranceways — Plural form of entranceway.
- essentiality — The condition of being essential; a basic set of essential traits; being.
- evanescently — In an evanescent manner.
- exhaustingly — In an exhausting manner.
- extraneously — In an extraneous manner.
- extrasensory — Of or relating to extrasensory perception.
- fascinatedly — In a fascinated manner; with fascination.
- flying start — a start, as in sailboat racing, in which the entrants begin moving before reaching the starting line.
- frying steak — a steak that is cooked by frying
- galanty show — pantomime shadow play
- granny smith — a variety of crisp, green-skinned apple, for eating raw or for cooking.