12-letter words containing s, y, n, u
- pansexuality — Psychiatry. pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality.
- paying guest — lodger
- perniciously — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
- pig industry — the people and activities involved in making pork products
- pneumatocyst — the cavity of a pneumatophore.
- pneumocystis — any protozoan of the genus Pneumocystis, esp P. carinii, which is a cause of pneumonia in people whose immune defences have been lowered by drugs or a disease
- polyneuritis — inflammation of several nerves at the same time; multiple neuritis.
- portentously — of the nature of a portent; momentous.
- progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
- pseudonymity — pseudonymous character.
- pseudonymous — bearing a false or fictitious name.
- pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- punxsutawney — a town in central Pennsylvania: Groundhog Day celebration.
- pussyfooting — behaving in an excessively cautious way
- put years on — to make (someone) feel or look much older
- puy de sancy — a mountain in S central France: highest peak of the Monts Dore. Height: 1886 m (6188 ft)
- pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
- quenchlessly — without quenching
- questionably — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- reassuringly — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
- resoundingly — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
- rogue's yarn — a yarn of distinctive color, material, or twist, laid in a strand or strands of a rope to identify the owner or the maker.
- runaway star — a star with an unusually high proper motion, believed to result from its ejection from a nearby binary system when its companion star underwent a supernova explosion.
- ryobu shinto — a fusion of Shinto and Buddhism, which flourished in Japan in the 13th century
- saint xystus — Saint, pope a.d. 432–440.
- saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
- scandalously — disgraceful; shameful or shocking; improper: scandalous behavior in public.
- scapulimancy — divination of the future by observation of the cracking of a mammal's scapula that has been heated by a fire or hot instrument.
- scapulomancy — divination of the future by observation of the cracking of a mammal's scapula that has been heated by a fire or hot instrument.
- scrutinously — in a scrutinous manner
- security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
- semiannually — occurring, done, or published every half year or twice a year; semiyearly.
- semiautonomy — the quality or state of being semiautonomous.
- sequentially — characterized by regular sequence of parts.
- seventy-four — a cardinal number, 70 plus 4.
- shame on you — expressing disapproval
- simultaneity — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
- sinusoidally — Mathematics. of or relating to a sinusoid.
- slubberingly — in a slubbering or slovenly manner
- slumberingly — in a slumbering manner
- sound system — equipment for playing music
- sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
- stand surety — to act as a surety
- sternutatory — Also, sternutative. causing or tending to cause sneezing.
- student body — all the students enrolled at an educational institution.
- stunt flying — the activity or practice of performing stunts in an aeroplane, such as special turns, etc, in the air
- stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- stupendously — causing amazement; astounding; marvelous: stupendous news.
- sub-attorney — a lawyer; attorney-at-law.