12-letter words containing s, e, y, n
- essentiality — The condition of being essential; a basic set of essential traits; being.
- ethnohistory — The branch of anthropology concerned with the history of peoples and cultures, especially non-Western ones.
- euphoniously — In a euphonious manner.
- evanescently — In an evanescent manner.
- everydayness — (uncountable) The quality or state of happening every day, or frequently.
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- excrescently — In an excrescent manner.
- exhaustingly — In an exhausting manner.
- expansionary — (of a policy or action) intended to result in economic or political expansion.
- extraneously — In an extraneous manner.
- extrasensory — Of or relating to extrasensory perception.
- eyewitnesses — Plural form of eyewitness.
- fascinatedly — In a fascinated manner; with fascination.
- fifty-second — next after the fifty-first; being the ordinal number for 52.
- fisheye lens — a hemispherical plano-convex lens for photographing in a full 180° in all directions in front of the camera, creating a circular image having an increasing amount of distortion from the center to the periphery.
- flux density — the magnetic, radiant, or electric flux per unit of cross-sectional area.
- fly the nest — When children fly the nest, they leave their parents' home to live on their own.
- flyfisherman — Flyfisher.
- flyfishermen — Plural form of flyfisherman.
- flying mouse — pygmy glider.
- flying shear — (in a continuous rolling mill) a shear that moves with the piece being cut.
- forensically — pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate.
- foreseeingly — by way of foreseeing
- forty-niners — a person, especially a prospector, who went to California in 1849 during the gold rush.
- forty-second — next after the forty-first; being the ordinal number for 42.
- fosphenytoin — a prodrug that produces phenytoin and is taken to prevent or treat seizures.
- french-style — French-cut.
- frying steak — a steak that is cooked by frying
- fundusectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of the fundus of an organ, such as the uterus or the stomach.
- funny papers — funny1 (def 7b).
- gas cylinder — container for storing gas
- geosynclinal — Geology. pertaining to a synclinal fold that involves a relatively large part of the earth's surface.
- geosynclines — Plural form of geosyncline.
- gerrymanders — Plural form of gerrymander.
- geyser basin — an area containing a group of geysers.
- glisteningly — In a glistening manner.
- glossy snake — a nocturnal burrowing snake, Arizona elegans, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico, having smooth, glistening scales of tan with brown blotches.
- glycogenesis — the formation of glycogen from monosaccharides in the body, especially glucose.
- glycogenosis — any of several inherited disorders of glycogen metabolism that result in excess accumulation of glycogen in various organs of the body.
- god's plenty — an abundant or overabundant quantity.
- golden syrup — treacle (def 2b).
- golden years — the years that follow retirement from work
- granny dress — a loose-fitting, ankle-length dress, usually with long sleeves and a high collar and sometimes having flounces, ruffles, or lace trimming.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- gray snapper — a snapper, Lutjanus griseus, of shallow waters off the coast of Florida, having a grayish-green body with a brown spot on each scale.
- greasy spoon — a cheap and rather unsanitary restaurant.
- great sunday — Easter Sunday.
- groundlessly — In a groundless manner; without justification.
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- gynecologist — a physician specializing in gynecology. Abbreviation: GYN, gyn.