12-letter words containing n, y, o, r
- road company — a theatrical group that tours cities and towns, usually performing a single play that is or has been a success in New York City.
- rock and rye — a bottled drink made with rye whiskey, rock candy, and fruit.
- rockumentary — a documentary about rock music.
- roentgen ray — (sometimes lowercase) x-ray.
- rogue's yarn — a yarn of distinctive color, material, or twist, laid in a strand or strands of a rope to identify the owner or the maker.
- role playing — role-play used as a method of training or education
- role-playing — a method of instruction or psychotherapy aimed at changing attitudes and behavior, in which participants act out designated roles relevant to real-life situations.
- romantically — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- romney marsh — one of an English breed of hardy sheep, having coarse, long wool.
- roundaboutly — in a roundabout manner
- royal antler — the third prong from the base of a stag's antler.
- royal assent — (in Britain) the formal signing of an act of Parliament by the sovereign, by which it becomes law
- royal colony — a colony ruled or administered by officials appointed by and responsible to the reigning sovereign of the parent state.
- royal pardon — release from punishment for an offence, granted by a monarch
- royal tennis — court tennis.
- run on empty — to be at a level of energy, creativity, etc. that is inadequate to sustain worthwhile activity or achievement
- ryobu shinto — a fusion of Shinto and Buddhism, which flourished in Japan in the 13th century
- sardonically — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- satyromaniac — a lascivious man; lecher.
- scorpion fly — any of several harmless insects of the order Mecoptera, the male of certain species having a reproductive structure that resembles the sting of a scorpion.
- scrutinously — in a scrutinous manner
- second-story — of or located on the second story or floor.
- selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- sensitometry — the science of determining the sensitivity of photographic materials.
- sensory root — a nerve fiber bundle that emerges from either side of the spinal cord and joins with a complementary bundle to form each spinal nerve in the series of spinal nerves: the root at the rear of the spinal cord (dorsal root or sensory root) conveys sensations to the central nervous system, and the root at the front (ventral root or motor root) conveys impulses to the muscles.
- serotaxonomy — the study of the taxonomy of proteins using serological methods
- seventy-four — a cardinal number, 70 plus 4.
- sigma baryon — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
- silky cornel — a cornel, Cornus amomum, of the eastern U.S., having leaves covered with short, silky hairs on the underside and bearing blue berries.
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- snollygoster — a clever, unscrupulous person.
- snow crystal — a crystal of ice sufficiently heavy to fall from the atmosphere.
- snowy plover — a small plover, Charadrius alexandrinus, mainly of the U.S. and Mexico, having a white breast and sand-colored upper parts.
- solar energy — energy derived from the sun in the form of solar radiation.
- sorting yard — sorting tracks.
- sphenography — the art of writing in cuneiform characters.
- 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.
- sternutatory — Also, sternutative. causing or tending to cause sneezing.
- stoney creek — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- stonyhearted — unfeeling; pitiless; cruel
- storytelling — the telling or writing of stories.
- street money — walking-around money (def 2).
- streptolysin — a type of hemolysin produced by certain species of streptococcus.
- streptomycin — an antibiotic, C 2 1 H 3 9 N 7 O 1 2 , produced by a soil actinomycete, Streptomyces griseus, and used in medicine in the form of its white, water-soluble sulfate salt, chiefly in the treatment of tuberculosis.
- strongylosis — a disease, especially of horses, caused by an infestation by strongyles and characterized in serious cases by weakness and anemia.
- sub-attorney — a lawyer; attorney-at-law.
- sulfonylurea — any of a group of oral drugs, as tolbutamide, that stimulate the pancreas to secrete more insulin, used to treat diabetes
- supersensory — supersensible.
- supportingly — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- synantherous — with united anthers