12-letter words containing s, y, n, o, t
- sonnet cycle — a group of sonnets composed by one poet and having a unifying theme or subject.
- sorting yard — sorting tracks.
- sound system — equipment for playing music
- spotsylvania — a village in NE Virginia: the scene of Civil War battles between the armies of Grant and Lee, May 8–21, 1864.
- stanley pool — a lake between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Congo-Brazzaville, formed by a widening of the River Congo. Area: 829 sq km (320 sq miles)
- station days — days on which ceremonies are held in station churches
- steady-going — steadfast; faithful; unchanging: steady-going service to the cause of justice.
- stereotyping — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- sternutatory — Also, sternutative. causing or tending to cause sneezing.
- stoney creek — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- stonyhearted — unfeeling; pitiless; cruel
- stop payment — an order by the drawer of a check to his or her bank not to pay a specified check.
- storytelling — the telling or writing of stories.
- street money — walking-around money (def 2).
- streptolysin — a type of hemolysin produced by certain species of streptococcus.
- streptomycin — an antibiotic, C 2 1 H 3 9 N 7 O 1 2 , produced by a soil actinomycete, Streptomyces griseus, and used in medicine in the form of its white, water-soluble sulfate salt, chiefly in the treatment of tuberculosis.
- strongylosis — a disease, especially of horses, caused by an infestation by strongyles and characterized in serious cases by weakness and anemia.
- student body — all the students enrolled at an educational institution.
- stupendously — causing amazement; astounding; marvelous: stupendous news.
- sub-attorney — a lawyer; attorney-at-law.
- subcommunity — a self-contained community usually within the suburbs of a large urban area.
- supportingly — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- sycophantish — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sycophantism — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sycophantize — to act the sycophant
- synantherous — with united anthers
- synaptosomal — pertaining to a synaptosome
- synarthrodia — synarthrosis.
- synarthroses — immovable articulation; a fixed or immovable joint; suture.
- synarthrosis — immovable articulation; a fixed or immovable joint; suture.
- synchro unit — a type of alternating-current motor designed to maintain continuously, at some remote location, the same rotational angle that may be imposed by force upon the electrically connected rotating element of a similar motor.
- synchroneity — the state of being synchronous; synchronism.
- syndactylous — having fingers, or toes, united
- syndiotactic — (of a polymer molecule) having a regular alternation of opposite configurations at successive regularly spaced positions along the chain. See also configuration (def 4).
- synecologist — a student of, or expert in, synecology
- theoclymenus — (in the Odyssey) a seer who foretold the return of Odysseus and the death of Penelope's suitors.
- tmj syndrome — a condition attributed to tension in or faulty articulation of the temporomandibular joint, having a wide range of symptoms that include dizziness, ringing in the ears, and pain in the head, neck, and shoulders.
- tommy atkins — any private of the British army.
- tonsillotomy — incision or excision of a portion of a tonsil.
- transmogrify — to change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.
- tremendously — extraordinarily great in size, amount, or intensity: a tremendous ocean liner; tremendous talent.
- type section — the sequence of strata referred to in establishing a stratigraphic unit, as a member or formation.
- ultroneously — spontaneously; voluntarily
- ungenerosity — the state of being ungenerous
- unnewsworthy — (of a story or incident) not important or significant enough to be considered news
- unstationary — standing still; not moving.
- unsyncopated — marked by syncopation: syncopated rhythm.
- unvirtuously — in an unvirtuous manner; not virtuously; without virtue
- voluntaryism — voluntarism (def 2).
- west babylon — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.