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12-letter words containing s, y, a

  • 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
  • sedge family — the plant family Cyperaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, often found in wet areas, having solid stems, narrow, grasslike leaves with closed sheaths, spikes of very small flowers set in a scalelike bract, and a dry, flattened, convex fruit, and including the bulrush, chufa, cotton grass, papyrus, and umbrella plant.
  • see daylight — the light of day: At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.
  • seismography — the scientific measuring and recording of the shock and vibrations of earthquakes.
  • selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • self-mastery — self-control.
  • self-playing — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • sell-by date — the last date on which perishable food should be sold, usually established with some allowance for home storage under refrigeration. Compare shelf life.
  • semantically — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
  • semiannually — occurring, done, or published every half year or twice a year; semiyearly.
  • semiautonomy — the quality or state of being semiautonomous.
  • semimystical — somewhat mystical; having a mystical quality to a partial degree
  • separability — capable of being separated, parted, or dissociated.
  • sequentially — characterized by regular sequence of parts.
  • seraphically — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
  • 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.
  • seymour cray — (person)   The founder of Cray Research and designer of several of their supercomputers. Cray has been a charismatic yet somewhat reclusive figure. He began Cray Research in Minnesota in 1972. In 1988, Cray moved his Cray-3 project to Colorado Springs. The next year, Cray Research spun it off to create Cray Computer. In 1989, Cray left Cray Research and started Cray Computer Corporation in Colorado Springs. His quest to build a faster computer using new-generation materials failed in 1995, and his bankruptcy cost half a billion dollars and more than 400 jobs. The company was unable to raise $20 million needed to finish the Cray-4 and filed for bankruptcy in March 1995. In the summer of 1996, Cray started a Colorado Springs-based company called SRC Computers, Inc. "We think we'll build computers, but who knows what kind or how," Cray said at the time. "We'll talk it over and see if we can come up with a plan." On 1996-09-22, aged 70, Cray broke his neck in a car accident. Surgery for massive head injuries and swelling of the brain leaving him in a critical and unstable condition.
  • shadowgraphy — the production of a shadowgraph
  • shagreen ray — a species of skate, Leucoraja fullonica
  • shame on you — expressing disapproval
  • shamefacedly — modest or bashful.
  • shank's pony — one's own legs, especially as a means of moving from one place to another: The only way we can get there is by shanks' mare.
  • shareability — the state or property of being able to be shared
  • shasta daisy — any of several horticultural varieties of Chrysanthemum superbum, having large, white, daisylike flowers.
  • shillyshally — to show indecision or hesitation; be irresolute; vacillate.
  • shovel-ready — of or relating to a construction project that is ready to start immediately
  • show the way — guide
  • shuffle play — a facility on a compact disc player that randomly selects a track from one of a number of compact discs
  • sidereal day — the interval between two successive passages of the vernal equinox over the meridian, being about four minutes shorter than a mean solar day.
  • siderography — the art or technique of engraving on steel.
  • sigma baryon — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
  • significancy — significance.
  • silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
  • silly season — a time of year, usually in midsummer or during a holiday period, characterized by exaggerated news stories, frivolous entertainments, outlandish publicity stunts, etc.: The new movie reminds us that the silly season is here.
  • simplicially — from a simplicial point of view
  • simultaneity — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
  • sindonophany — the periodic exhibiting to the public of the shroud that the body of Christ is thought to have been wrapped in
  • single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
  • single-payer — noting or relating to a healthcare or health insurance system in which the government or a publicly owned and regulated agency pays all medical costs from a single fund.
  • 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.
  • sinusoidally — Mathematics. of or relating to a sinusoid.
  • six-yard box — On a football pitch, the six-yard box is the rectangular area marked in front of the goal.
  • six-year-old — being six years in age
  • 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.
  • snotty-faced — having visible nasal mucus on the face
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