12-letter words containing e, y, r, a
- solar energy — energy derived from the sun in the form of solar radiation.
- solar system — the sun together with all the planets and other bodies that revolve around it.
- solitary bee — any of numerous bees, as the leaf-cutting bees, that do not live in a community.
- special jury — struck jury.
- spermaphytic — able to produce seeds
- spermatocyte — a male germ cell (primary spermatocyte) that gives rise by meiosis to a pair of haploid cells (secondary spermatocytes) that give rise in turn to spermatids.
- sphenography — the art of writing in cuneiform characters.
- sphericality — the state of being a sphere
- spray millet — the seeds of millet left on the spike and sold in pet shops for cage birds.
- squared away — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- staggeringly — tending to stagger or overwhelm: a staggering amount of money required in the initial investment.
- stand surety — to act as a surety
- steerability — to guide the course of (something in motion) by a rudder, helm, wheel, etc.: to steer a bicycle.
- stereoacuity — the ability of a person to see objects as separate entities along a range of distances
- stereography — the art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane.
- sternutatory — Also, sternutative. causing or tending to cause sneezing.
- stonyhearted — unfeeling; pitiless; cruel
- straw yellow — a pale yellow; straw color.
- streamer fly — an artificial fly having a wing or wings extending beyond the crook of the fishhook.
- street party — A street party is the same as a block party.
- styracaceous — belonging to the Styracaceae, the storax family of plants.
- sub-attorney — a lawyer; attorney-at-law.
- subalternity — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
- subcentrally — in a subcentral manner
- subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
- subquarterly — as one of the quarterings of a grand quarter: a coat of arms borne subquarterly.
- subsecretary — a secretary subordinate to another secretary
- sulfonylurea — any of a group of oral drugs, as tolbutamide, that stimulate the pancreas to secrete more insulin, used to treat diabetes
- sunday paper — a newspaper which is only published on Sundays
- superciliary — of or relating to the eyebrow.
- supergravity — a hypothetical symmetry among groups of particles containing fermions and bosons, especially in theories of gravity (supergravity) that unify electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force with gravity into a single unified force.
- superhighway — a highway designed for travel at high speeds, having more than one lane for each direction of traffic, a safety strip dividing the two directions, and cloverleaves to route the traffic on and off the highway. Compare expressway.
- superquality — above-average quality
- synantherous — with united anthers
- synarthroses — immovable articulation; a fixed or immovable joint; suture.
- synergically — in a synergic manner
- syngman rhee — Syngman [sing-muh n] /ˈsɪŋ mən/ (Show IPA), 1875–1965, president of South Korea 1948–60.
- technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
- telergically — in a telergic manner
- tercentenary — commemoration of 300 years
- ternary form — a musical form in three sections, with the third usually an exact repetition of the first.
- terrifically — extraordinarily great or intense: terrific speed.
- testamentary — of, relating to, or of the nature of a testament or will.
- tetrachotomy — the segmentation of something into four parts
- tetracycline — an antibiotic, C 22 H 24 H 2 O 8 , derived from chlortetracycline, used in medicine to treat a broad variety of infections.
- tetradactyly — the condition of having four fingers or toes
- tetrahydrate — a hydrate that contains four molecules of water, as potassium sodium tartrate, KNaC 4 H 4 O 6 ·4H 2 O.
- tetrahydroxy — (of a molecule) containing four hydroxyl groups.
- tetrapyrrole — a chemical formed from four pyrrole rings
- the military — the armed services (esp the army)