12-letter words containing a, n, t, s, y
- naughty step — a place where a child is made to stand as a punishment for bad behaviour
- nauseatingly — causing sickness of the stomach; nauseous.
- news analyst — commentator (def 1).
- nonstatutory — of, relating to, or of the nature of a statute.
- not just any — If you say that someone or something is not just any person or thing, you mean that they are special in some way.
- opalescently — In an opalescent manner.
- outlandishly — In an outlandish manner.
- owen stanley — a mountain range on New Guinea in SE Papua New Guinea. Highest peak, Mt. Victoria, 13,240 feet (4036 meters).
- oyster plant — salsify.
- palynologist — the study of live and fossil spores, pollen grains, and similar plant structures.
- pansexuality — Psychiatry. pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality.
- pantisocracy — a community, social group, etc, in which all have rule and everyone is equal
- passionately — having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
- paying guest — lodger
- penalty shot — a free shot at the goal defended only by the goalkeeper, awarded to an offensive player for certain defensive violations.
- penalty spot — a point within the penalty area and 12 yards (about 11 m) from the goal, from which a penalty kick may be taken
- photoanalyst — a person who analyzes and interprets photographs, especially a military specialist in aerial or satellite photography.
- plastocyanin — a blue protein found in green plants and in some bacteria
- pneumatocyst — the cavity of a pneumatophore.
- polysynaptic — having or involving more than one synapse.
- positionally — in terms of position, from a positional point of view
- postcoronary — of, relating to, or occurring after a heart attack
- postliminary — of or relating to postliminy
- postsynaptic — being or occurring on the receiving end of a discharge across the synapse.
- presbyterian — pertaining to or based on the principle of ecclesiastical government by presbyters or presbyteries.
- presentially — in a presential way
- prostacyclin — a prostaglandin, C 2 0 H 3 2 O 5 , that specifically inhibits the formation of blood clots.
- punxsutawney — a town in central Pennsylvania: Groundhog Day celebration.
- put years on — to make (someone) feel or look much older
- questionably — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- residentiary — residing; resident.
- resyndicated — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
- rhadamanthys — Classical Mythology. a son of Zeus and Europa, rewarded for the justice he exemplified on earth by being made, after his death, a judge in the Underworld, where he served with his brothers Minos and Aeacus.
- royal assent — (in Britain) the formal signing of an act of Parliament by the sovereign, by which it becomes law
- royal tennis — court tennis.
- runaway star — a star with an unusually high proper motion, believed to result from its ejection from a nearby binary system when its companion star underwent a supernova explosion.
- saccharinity — of the nature of or resembling that of sugar: a powdery substance with a saccharine taste.
- sacramentary — a sacramentarian
- safety chain — a chain on the fastening of a bracelet, watch, etc, to ensure that it cannot open enough to fall off accidentally
- saint xystus — Saint, pope a.d. 432–440.
- salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
- sanctifiedly — in a sanctified manner
- sandy blight — trachoma.
- sanity check — (programming) 1. Checking code (or anything else, e.g. a Usenet posting) for completely stupid mistakes. Implies that the check is to make sure the author was sane when it was written; e.g. if a piece of scientific software relied on a particular formula and was giving unexpected results, one might first look at the nesting of parentheses or the coding of the formula, as a "sanity check", before looking at the more complex I/O or data structure manipulation routines, much less the algorithm itself. Compare reality check. 2. A run-time test, either validating input or ensuring that the program hasn't screwed up internally (producing an inconsistent value or state).
- satyromaniac — a lascivious man; lecher.
- saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
- scatteringly — in a scattering manner
- scintigraphy — the process of producing a scintigram.
- scratchingly — in a scratching manner, with a scratching action
- security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables