12-letter words containing p, a, s, y, t
- preservatory — a preservative
- prostacyclin — a prostaglandin, C 2 0 H 3 2 O 5 , that specifically inhibits the formation of blood clots.
- psammophytic — relating to psammophytes
- pseudomartyr — someone falsely or inaccurately called a martyr
- psychiatrist — a physician who practices psychiatry.
- psychoactive — of or relating to a substance having a profound or significant effect on mental processes: a psychoactive drug.
- psychopathic — of, relating to, or affected with psychopathy.
- ptyalectasis — spontaneous or surgical dilatation of a salivary duct.
- punxsutawney — a town in central Pennsylvania: Groundhog Day celebration.
- put years on — to make (someone) feel or look much older
- pyloroplasty — the surgical alteration of the pylorus, usually a widening to facilitate the passage of food from the stomach to the duodenum.
- pyrosulphate — any salt of pyrosulphuric acid
- rescue party — a group of people who attempt to rescue, find or save a person or people for danger, esp a person or people who have got lost while mountain climbing
- rotary press — a printing press in which the type or plates to be printed are fastened upon a rotating cylinder and are impressed on a continuous roll of moving paper.
- salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
- saprophytism — living and feeding on dead organic matter
- scintigraphy — the process of producing a scintigram.
- scissiparity — reproduction by one cell splitting into two
- scripturally — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or in accordance with sacred writings, especially the Scriptures.
- search party — a group of persons conducting an organized search for someone or something lost or hidden.
- separability — capable of being separated, parted, or dissociated.
- single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
- smarty-pants — smarty.
- spatiography — the study of the characteristics of space beyond the atmosphere, including the mapping of the movements of celestial bodies and the recording of electrical, magnetic, and gravitational effects, especially those likely to affect missiles and spacecraft.
- spermaphytic — able to produce seeds
- 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.
- sphericality — the state of being a sphere
- spirituality — the quality or fact of being spiritual.
- sportability — suitability to be used in or as a sport
- spotsylvania — a village in NE Virginia: the scene of Civil War battles between the armies of Grant and Lee, May 8–21, 1864.
- spotted cavy — paca.
- spray millet — the seeds of millet left on the spike and sold in pet shops for cage birds.
- 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.
- starch syrup — glucose (def 2).
- starch-syrup — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- steatopygous — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
- stereography — the art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane.
- stop payment — an order by the drawer of a check to his or her bank not to pay a specified check.
- stratigraphy — a branch of geology dealing with the classification, nomenclature, correlation, and interpretation of stratified rocks.
- street party — A street party is the same as a block party.
- stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
- subspecialty — a lesser or minor specialty: a cinematographer with a subspecialty of portrait photography.
- supergravity — a hypothetical symmetry among groups of particles containing fermions and bosons, especially in theories of gravity (supergravity) that unify electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force with gravity into a single unified force.
- superquality — above-average quality
- supplicatory — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
- supravitally — in a supravital manner
- sycophantish — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sycophantism — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sycophantize — to act the sycophant