12-letter words containing o, y, s, t, e
- serotaxonomy — the study of the taxonomy of proteins using serological methods
- servo system — a system using a servomechanism.
- set store by — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- seventy-four — a cardinal number, 70 plus 4.
- show the way — guide
- sixty-second — next after the sixty-first; being the ordinal number for 62.
- skeleton key — a key with nearly the whole substance of the bit filed away so that it may open various locks.
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- snollygoster — a clever, unscrupulous person.
- snotty-faced — having visible nasal mucus on the face
- snotty-nosed — child: runny nose
- softheadedly — in a soft-headed manner
- solar system — the sun together with all the planets and other bodies that revolve around it.
- sole custody — custody, as of a child whose parents are separated, in which one person has sole responsibility.
- solitary bee — any of numerous bees, as the leaf-cutting bees, that do not live in a community.
- 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.
- sonnet cycle — a group of sonnets composed by one poet and having a unifying theme or subject.
- sooty grouse — blue grouse.
- sothic cycle — (in the ancient Egyptian calendar) a period of 1460 Sothic years.
- sound system — equipment for playing music
- south hadley — a city in W Massachusetts.
- spectrometry — an optical device for measuring wavelengths, deviation of refracted rays, and angles between faces of a prism, especially an instrument (prism spectrometer) consisting of a slit through which light passes, a collimator, a prism that deviates the light, and a telescope through which the deviated light is viewed and examined.
- spectroscopy — the science that deals with the use of the spectroscope and with spectrum analysis.
- 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.
- spermophytic — able to produce seed
- sphygmometer — a device which measures the rate of the pulse
- spotted cavy — paca.
- stanley pool — a lake between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Congo-Brazzaville, formed by a widening of the River Congo. Area: 829 sq km (320 sq miles)
- stapedectomy — a microsurgical procedure to relieve deafness by replacing the stapes of the ear with a prosthetic device.
- stately home — a country mansion, usually of architectural interest and often open to the public.
- stay-at-home — not inclined to travel or seek diversions or pastimes outside one's residence, area, or country.
- 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.
- stepmotherly — related to or having the characteristics of a stepmother
- stereoacuity — the ability of a person to see objects as separate entities along a range of distances
- stereochromy — the stereochrome process.
- 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.
- stereotypist — 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
- stop payment — an order by the drawer of a check to his or her bank not to pay a specified check.
- storey house — (in W Africa) a house having more than one storey
- story writer — author of prose fiction
- storytelling — the telling or writing of stories.
- straw yellow — a pale yellow; straw color.
- street money — walking-around money (def 2).
- streptolysin — a type of hemolysin produced by certain species of streptococcus.
- streptomyces — any of several aerobic bacteria of the genus Streptomyces, certain species of which produce antibiotics.