12-letter words containing s, t, e, y
- 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.
- frustratedly — In a frustrated manner.
- 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.
- fuzzy subset — In fuzzy logic, a fuzzy subset F of a set S is defined by a "membership function" which gives the degree of membership of each element of S belonging to F.
- gametophytes — Plural form of gametophyte.
- 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.
- glisteningly — In a glistening manner.
- 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.
- great gatsby — a novel (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- great sunday — Easter Sunday.
- 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.
- hadley chest — a style of chest made c1700 in Massachusetts or Connecticut, having front rails and panels carved in low relief with elaborate tulip and leaf patterns.
- haematolyses — Plural form of haematolysis.
- haematolysis — Haemolysis.
- headmasterly — In a manner befitting a headmaster.
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- heavyweights — Plural form of heavyweight.
- hectocotylus — a modified arm of the male of certain cephalopods that is used to transfer sperm to the female.
- hemihydrates — Plural form of hemihydrate.
- henley-shirt — a short- or long-sleeved pullover sport shirt, usually of cotton, with a round neckband and an often covered neckline placket.
- 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.
- hesitatingly — In a hesitating manner.
- 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.
- hexahydrates — Plural form of hexahydrate.
- hi-fi system — a complete system of high-quality sound-reproducing equipment
- high density — floppy disk
- high society — society (def 9).
- high-density — having a high concentration: entering a high-density market with a new product; high-density lipoprotein.
- 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.
- holy thistle — lady's-thistle.
- homocysteine — An amino acid that occurs in the body as an intermediate in the metabolism of methionine and cysteine.
- 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.