12-letter words containing s, t, y, r, a
- scripturally — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or in accordance with sacred writings, especially the Scriptures.
- scrutability — capable of being understood by careful study or investigation.
- search party — a group of persons conducting an organized search for someone or something lost or hidden.
- security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
- self-mastery — self-control.
- separability — capable of being separated, parted, or dissociated.
- serotaxonomy — the study of the taxonomy of proteins using serological methods
- severability — capability of being separated, as of a clause in an agreement
- sexcentenary — pertaining to 600 or a period of 600 years; marking the completion of 600 years.
- shareability — the state or property of being able to be shared
- silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
- single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
- sinistrality — the state or quality of having the left side or its parts or members different from and, usually, more efficient than the right side or its parts or members; left-handedness.
- slate quarry — a quarry where slate is mined
- smarty-pants — smarty.
- smoky quartz — a smoky-yellow to dark brown or black variety of quartz, used as a gem.
- snow crystal — a crystal of ice sufficiently heavy to fall from the atmosphere.
- socratically — of or relating to Socrates or his philosophy, followers, etc., or to the Socratic method.
- solar system — the sun together with all the planets and other bodies that revolve around it.
- solitary bee — any of numerous bees, as the leaf-cutting bees, that do not live in a community.
- solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
- sorting yard — sorting tracks.
- 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
- spray millet — the seeds of millet left on the spike and sold in pet shops for cage birds.
- squattocracy — squatters collectively, regarded as rich and influential
- staggeringly — tending to stagger or overwhelm: a staggering amount of money required in the initial investment.
- stand surety — to act as a surety
- 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.
- starry night — a painting (1889) by Vincent van Gogh.
- steerability — to guide the course of (something in motion) by a rudder, helm, wheel, etc.: to steer a bicycle.
- stereoacuity — the ability of a person to see objects as separate entities along a range of distances
- stereography — the art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane.
- sternutatory — Also, sternutative. causing or tending to cause sneezing.
- stonyhearted — unfeeling; pitiless; cruel
- straightaway — straight onward, without turn or curve, as a racecourse.
- straightways — in a direct course
- stratigraphy — a branch of geology dealing with the classification, nomenclature, correlation, and interpretation of stratified rocks.
- straw yellow — a pale yellow; straw color.
- streamer fly — an artificial fly having a wing or wings extending beyond the crook of the fishhook.
- street party — A street party is the same as a block party.
- stringy-bark — any of several eucalyptus trees having a fibrous bark
- structurally — of or relating to structure; pertaining or essential to a structure.
- stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
- styracaceous — belonging to the Styracaceae, the storax family of plants.