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12-letter words containing i, n, s, t, y

  • 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.
  • resynthesize — to form (a material or abstract entity) by combining parts or elements (opposed to analyze): to synthesize a statement.
  • royal tennis — court tennis.
  • ryobu shinto — a fusion of Shinto and Buddhism, which flourished in Japan in the 13th century
  • saccharinity — of the nature of or resembling that of sugar: a powdery substance with a saccharine taste.
  • 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
  • schindyletic — relating to the joint in which one bone is received into the cleft or slit of another bone
  • scintigraphy — the process of producing a scintigram.
  • scratchingly — in a scratching manner, with a scratching action
  • scrutinously — in a scrutinous manner
  • security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
  • self-pitying — Someone who is self-pitying is full of self-pity.
  • semantically — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
  • semi-monthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
  • semiautonomy — the quality or state of being semiautonomous.
  • sensitometry — the science of determining the sensitivity of photographic materials.
  • sequentially — characterized by regular sequence of parts.
  • serpentinely — in a serpentine fashion
  • seventy-five — a cardinal number, 70 plus 5.
  • seventy-nine — a cardinal number, 70 plus 9.
  • simultaneity — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
  • 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
  • sinistrality — the state or quality of having the left side or its parts or members different from and, usually, more efficient than the right side or its parts or members; left-handedness.
  • sixteenpenny — noting a nail 3½ inches (9 cm) long. Symbol: 16d.
  • sixty-second — next after the sixty-first; being the ordinal number for 62.
  • 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.
  • solzhenitsyn — Alexander or Aleksandr (Isayevich) [al-ig-zan-der ee-sahy-uh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr ee-sah-yi-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər iˈsaɪ ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr iˈsɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1918–2008, Russian novelist: Nobel prize 1970; in the U.S. 1974–94.
  • sorting yard — sorting tracks.
  • spotsylvania — a village in NE Virginia: the scene of Civil War battles between the armies of Grant and Lee, May 8–21, 1864.
  • sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
  • staggeringly — tending to stagger or overwhelm: a staggering amount of money required in the initial investment.
  • stanislavsky — Konstantin [kon-stuh n-teen;; Russian kuh n-stuhn-tyeen] /ˈkɒn stənˌtin;; Russian kən stʌnˈtyin/ (Show IPA), (Konstantin Sergeevich Alekseev) 1863–1938, Russian actor, producer, and director.
  • stanleyville — former name of Kisangani.
  • starry night — a painting (1889) by Vincent van Gogh.
  • station days — days on which ceremonies are held in station churches
  • steady-going — steadfast; faithful; unchanging: steady-going service to the cause of justice.
  • 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.
  • stinky pinky — an oral word game in which one player provides a definition to which the others are to supply a rhyming phrase, as “a mighty nightie” for “a powerful pair of pajamas.”.
  • stinky-pinky — an oral word game in which one player provides a definition to which the others are to supply a rhyming phrase, as “a mighty nightie” for “a powerful pair of pajamas.”.
  • storytelling — the telling or writing of stories.
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