12-letter words containing s, a, y, o, n
- commensality — eating together at the same table.
- compensatory — Compensatory payments involve money paid as compensation.
- coney island — an island off the S shore of Long Island, New York: site of a large amusement park
- confiscatory — involving confiscation
- conscionably — being in conformity with one's conscience; just.
- consecratory — That consecrates.
- consensually — formed or existing merely by consent: a consensual transaction.
- conservatory — A conservatory is a room with glass walls and a glass roof, which is attached to a house. People often grow plants in a conservatory.
- considerably — to a noteworthy or marked extent; much; noticeably; substantially; amply.
- consignatory — a cosignatory
- conspiratory — the act of conspiring.
- constabulary — In Britain and some other countries, a constabulary is the police force of a particular area.
- consultatory — Formed by, or resulting from, consultation; advisory.
- consummately — to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.
- consummatory — to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.
- contagiously — capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object: contagious diseases.
- conway's law — (project, humour) The rule (presumably formulated by Melvin Conway) that the organisation of software and the organisation of the software team will be congruent; originally stated as "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler".
- coscinomancy — a form of divination involving the interpretation of the movement of a sieve suspended by shears
- country seat — A country seat is a large house with land in the country which is owned by someone who also owns a house in a town.
- cranioplasty — Surgical repair of a defect or deformity in the skull.
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- cryptomonads — Plural form of cryptomonad.
- cyanogenesis — the release by certain plants, such as cherry laurel, of hydrogen cyanide, esp after wounding or invasion by pathogens
- cyanohydrins — Plural form of cyanohydrin.
- cycloalkanes — Cycloalkanes are molecules which contain only carbon-hydrogen bonds, with the carbon atoms joined in a ring.
- cytochalasin — any of a group of metabolites derived from fungus that interfere with cell processes
- delusionally — In a delusional way.
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- deoxymannose — rhamnose.
- desolatingly — in a way that desolates, in a desolating fashion
- diaphanously — In a diaphanous manner or to a diaphanous extent.
- diisocyanate — (chemistry) Any compound containing two isocyanate anions or functional groups, but especially such an organic compound used in the preparation of polyurethane.
- discordantly — disagreeable to the ear; dissonant; harsh.
- dishonorably — In a dishonorable manner.
- disloyalness — The state or quality of being disloyal.
- dispensatory — a book in which the composition, preparation, and uses of medicinal substances are described; a nonofficial pharmacopoeia.
- diversionary — tending to divert or distract the attention: diversionary tactics of the guerrilla fighters.
- dodecagynous — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
- dragonslayer — One who slays a dragon.
- dynamometers — Plural form of dynamometer.
- dysmenorrhea — painful menstruation.
- dystopianism — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- eleemosynary — Of, relating to, or dependent on charity; charitable.
- enantiostyly — the asymmetrical deflection of the style, either to the left or to the right of the floral axis
- enhypostasia — personalities existing in union (Jesus Christ and God the Son)
- enhypostatic — relating to enhypostasia
- enthesopathy — (pathology) A disorder of entheses (bone attachments).
- eriskay pony — a breed of medium-sized pony, typically grey, with a dense waterproof coat. The Eriskay is the only surviving variety of the native ponies of the Western Isles of Scotland
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- expansionary — (of a policy or action) intended to result in economic or political expansion.