12-letter words containing g, e, t, y, s
- heterozygous — having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic.
- high density — floppy disk
- high society — society (def 9).
- high-density — having a high concentration: entering a high-density market with a new product; high-density lipoprotein.
- hydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hydrogenate.
- hysterogenic — inducing hysteria.
- intensifying — Present participle of intensify.
- jersey giant — one of a breed of large domestic chickens raised primarily for their meat, originally black but now with a white variety, developed in New Jersey by interbreeding Langshans and large Asiatic fowl.
- lay siege to — attack
- legal system — judicial structures and processes: law
- lysogenicity — the quality or condition of being lysogenic
- methysergide — an ergot alkaloid derivative, C 2 1 H 2 7 N 3 O 2 , used in the prophylaxis and treatment of migraine and cluster headaches.
- mythogenesis — the creation and development of myths
- mythologizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mythologize.
- naughty step — a place where a child is made to stand as a punishment for bad behaviour
- nauseatingly — causing sickness of the stomach; nauseous.
- outrageously — In an outrageous manner; to an outrageous degree.
- paying guest — lodger
- pearly gates — the entrance to heaven.
- phagocytoses — phagocytize.
- phytogenesis — the origin and development of plants.
- regressivity — regressing or tending to regress; retrogressive.
- safety glass — a pane made by joining two plates or panes of glass with a layer of usually transparent plastic or artificial resin between them that retains the fragments if the glass is broken.
- saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
- scatteringly — in a scattering manner
- see daylight — the light of day: At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.
- self-pitying — Someone who is self-pitying is full of self-pity.
- single entry — an item noted only once.
- single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
- sixty-eighth — next after the sixty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 68.
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- smyth sewing — a method of sewing together folded, gathered, and collated signatures with a single thread sewn through the folds of individual signatures.
- snollygoster — a clever, unscrupulous person.
- sooty grouse — blue grouse.
- sphygmometer — a device which measures the rate of the pulse
- sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
- stageability — a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- staggeringly — tending to stagger or overwhelm: a staggering amount of money required in the initial investment.
- steady-going — steadfast; faithful; unchanging: steady-going service to the cause of justice.
- steatopygous — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
- stereography — the art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane.
- stereotyping — 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.
- storytelling — the telling or writing of stories.
- stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- suggestively — that suggests; referring to other thoughts, persons, etc.: His recommendation was suggestive of his boss's thinking.
- 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.
- synecologist — a student of, or expert in, synecology
- syntagmatite — a dark crystalline form of hornblende
- synthesizing — to form (a material or abstract entity) by combining parts or elements (opposed to analyze): to synthesize a statement.
- treasury tag — a short piece of cord having metal ends one of which can be slotted inside the other: used for holding papers together or fastening them into a file