10-letter words containing n, a, y, s, t
- postulancy — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- resonantly — resounding or echoing, as sounds: the resonant thundering of cannons being fired.
- safety man — safety (def 6c).
- safety net — a large net rigged between a person, as a trapeze performer, and the ground as protection in a fall.
- safety pin — pin with covered point
- safety-pin — to secure or affix with a safety pin: to safety-pin a child's mittens to his coat sleeve.
- saint mary — Christian holy figure
- sainte foy — a SW suburb of Quebec, on the St Lawrence River. Pop: 72 547 (2001)
- saintsbury — George Edward Bateman [beyt-muh n] /ˈbeɪt mən/ (Show IPA), 1845–1933, English literary critic and historian.
- sanctimony — pretended, affected, or hypocritical religious devotion, righteousness, etc.
- sand yacht — land yacht.
- sandy city — a town in central Utah.
- sanguinity — cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations.
- sanitarily — of or relating to health or the conditions affecting health, especially with reference to cleanliness, precautions against disease, etc.
- satanology — the aspect of knowledge that relates to Satan or evil
- satisfying — to fulfill the desires, expectations, needs, or demands of (a person, the mind, etc.); give full contentment to: The hearty meal satisfied him.
- segmentary — one of the parts into which something naturally separates or is divided; a division, portion, or section: a segment of an orange.
- sensuality — sensual nature: the sensuality of Keats's poetry.
- shantytown — a section, as of a city or town, characterized by shanties and crudely built houses.
- silentiary — someone who keeps silence in court
- slant-eyed — having eyes with epicanthic folds.
- slatternly — slovenly and untidy.
- spray tank — a closed tank into which air is pumped to force out a liquid, especially for a spray.
- stabbingly — in a stabbing way
- stand easy — a command to soldiers standing at ease that they may relax further
- standardly — in or according to the standard manner, form, or idea
- staphyline — having a form resembling a bunch of grapes
- startingly — in sudden brief snatches, or with a sudden nervous jump or start
- stationary — standing still; not moving.
- stationery — writing paper.
- staycation — a vacation spent at home or near home, doing enjoyable activities or visiting local attractions.
- stealingly — in a stealthy or elusive manner; by stealing
- stimulancy — an energizing, invigorating, or stimulating quality
- strainedly — in a strained manner
- stravinsky — Igor Fëdorovich [ee-gawr fyaw-duh-roh-vich;; Russian ee-guh r fyaw-duh-ruh-vyich] /ˈi gɔr ˌfyɔ dəˈroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈi gər ˈfyɔ də rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1971, U.S. composer, born in Russia.
- stuyvesant — Peter, 1592–1672, Dutch colonial administrator in the Americas: last governor of New Netherlands 1646–64.
- suzerainty — the position or authority of a suzerain.
- symmetrian — an advocate of symmetry
- synanthous — relating to plants whose leaves and flowers expand simultaneously
- synaptical — Also called syndesis. Cell Biology. the pairing of homologous chromosomes, one from each parent, during early meiosis.
- synclastic — (of a surface) having principal curvatures of similar sign at a given point.
- syncopated — marked by syncopation: syncopated rhythm.
- syndactyly — the state of being syndactyl
- syndicated — 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.
- syndicator — a person who establishes a syndicate
- syntactics — the branch of semiotics dealing with the formal properties of languages and systems of symbols.
- synthetase — ligase.
- thysanuran — Also, thysanurous. belonging or pertaining to the order Thysanura, comprising the bristletails.
- tiny basic — (language) A dialect of BASIC developed by Dr. Wang [Wong?] in the late 1970s. Tiny BASIC was 2K bytes in size and was loaded from paper tape. It ran on almost any Intel 8080 or Zilog Z80 microprocessor for which the user could provide the necessary I/O driver software. Tiny BASIC was distributed as [the first ever?] freeware. The program listing contained the following phrases "All Wrongs reserved" and "CopyLeft", he obviously wasn't interested in money. See also Tiny Basic Interpreter Language.
- transiency — transient state or quality.