12-letter words containing o, y, s, t
- fuliginosity — The condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness.
- fundusectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of the fundus of an organ, such as the uterus or the stomach.
- galanty show — pantomime shadow play
- gametophytes — Plural form of gametophyte.
- gastroplasty — any plastic surgery on the stomach.
- geochemistry — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
- geophysicist — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- gluttonously — tending to eat and drink excessively; voracious.
- glycosylated — Simple past tense and past participle of glycosylate.
- god's plenty — an abundant or overabundant quantity.
- goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- gratuitously — given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary.
- gymnosophist — one of a group of Jainist philosophers, existing from ancient times to c1000, characterized by refusal to wear clothes and the abandonment of caste marks; a member of the Digambara sect.
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- gynecologist — a physician specializing in gynecology. Abbreviation: GYN, gyn.
- gynecomastia — abnormal enlargement of the breast in a male.
- haematolyses — Plural form of haematolysis.
- haematolysis — Haemolysis.
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- hectocotylus — a modified arm of the male of certain cephalopods that is used to transfer sperm to the female.
- here to stay — If you say that something is here to stay, you mean that people have accepted it and it has become a part of everyday life.
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
- heterogynous — having females of two different kinds, one sexual and the other abortive or neuter, as ants.
- heteronymous — of, relating to, or characteristic of a heteronym.
- heteroplasty — the repair of lesions with tissue from another individual or species.
- heterostyled — (of a plant) having styles of different forms or lengths in the flowers.
- heterozygous — having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic.
- hidrocystoma — An adenoma of the sweat glands.
- high society — society (def 9).
- histiocytoma — A tumour consisting of histiocytes.
- historically — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- historiology — (obsolete) a discourse on history.
- hockey skate — a tubular ice skate having a shorter blade than a racing skate and often having a reinforced shoe for protection.
- hockey stick — the stick used in field hockey or ice hockey.
- holistically — incorporating the concept of holism, or the idea that the whole is more than merely the sum of its parts, in theory or practice: holistic psychology.
- holy thistle — lady's-thistle.
- hominy grits — grits (def 1).
- homocysteine — An amino acid that occurs in the body as an intermediate in the metabolism of methionine and cysteine.
- homozygosity — having identical pairs of genes for any given pair of hereditary characteristics.
- honey locust — a thorny North American tree, Gleditsia triacanthos, of the legume family, having small, compound leaves and pods with a sweet pulp.
- honor system — a system whereby the students at a school, the inmates in a prison, etc., are put on their honor to observe certain rules in order to minimize administrative supervision or to promote honesty.
- horror story — a story, movie, etc., that entertains or fascinates by shocking or frightening, especially by an emphasis on bloodshed or supernatural forces.
- host country — nation staging an international event
- hyannis port — a town in SE Massachusetts, on Nantucket Sound: summer resort.
- hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
- hydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hydrogenate.
- hydrologists — Plural form of hydrologist.
- hydrolysates — Plural form of hydrolysate.