10-letter words containing s, y, t
- astrocytic — relating to astrocytes or star-shaped neuroglial cells
- astrolatry — a reverence for, devotion to, or deification of celestial objects
- astromancy — divination by means of the stars.
- astrometry — the branch of astronomy concerned with the measurement of the position and motion of celestial bodies
- asymmetric — Asymmetric means the same as asymmetrical.
- asymptotes — Plural form of asymptote.
- asymptotic — of or referring to an asymptote
- asynartete — a poem or stanza that contains two different types of metre
- asyntactic — showing no syntactical rules or regularity
- asystolism — the indications or symptoms which are representative of asystole
- atrocity's — the quality or state of being atrocious.
- aunt sally — a figure of an old woman's head, typically with a clay pipe, used in fairgrounds and fêtes as a target for balls or other objects
- autolysate — the substances resulting as the end product of autolysis
- autolysins — Plural form of autolysin.
- autonymous — (of a word or words) appearing in its own form or directly quoted
- autoplasty — surgical repair of defects by grafting or transplanting tissue from the patient's own body
- autopsying — Present participle of autopsy.
- ayatollahs — Plural form of ayatollah.
- baby split — a split in which the two and seven pins or the three and ten pins remain standing.
- babysitter — to take charge of a child while the parents are temporarily away.
- back story — background information provided, often in narrative form, to give help in understanding something, as the behavior of a character in a film
- baptistery — a place, esp. a part of a church, used for baptizing
- bathyscaph — a submersible vessel having a flotation compartment with an observation capsule underneath, capable of reaching ocean depths of over 10 000 metres (about 5000 fathoms)
- bay street — the financial centre of Toronto, in which Canada's largest stock exchange is situated
- bcs theory — Physics. a general quantum theory of superconductivity that describes many properties of superconducting materials.
- beautyless — Devoid of beauty.
- belly-bust — belly-flop.
- besottedly — in a besotted manner
- bestiality — Bestiality is disgusting behaviour.
- blast away — If a gun, or a person firing a gun, blasts away, the gun is fired continuously for a period of time.
- blastocyst — the blastula of mammals: a sphere of cells (trophoblast) enclosing an inner mass of cells and a fluid-filled cavity (blastocoel)
- blindstory — a windowless story
- bluest eye — a novel (1970) by Toni Morrison.
- boastfully — given to or characterized by boasting.
- body shirt — a close-fitting shirt or blouse having a shape and seams that follow the contours of the body.
- bossyboots — a bossy or domineering person
- boston ivy — a climbing vine (Parthenocissus tricuspidata) of the grape family, native to Japan and China, having shield-shaped leaves and purple berries: often grown to cover walls
- boy scouts — the worldwide movement founded by Lord Baden-Powell in 1908, now called the Scout Association in the UK and the Boys Scouts of America in the USA, which pursues a programme of activities for boys with the aim of developing character and responsibility
- bucky bits — /buh'kee bits/ 1. Obsolete. The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and 400 respectively), resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set. The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right CONTROL and META keys, resulting in a 12-bit character set; later, LISP Machines added such keys as SUPER, HYPER, and GREEK (see space-cadet keyboard). 2. By extension, bits associated with "extra" shift keys on any keyboard, e.g. the ALT on an IBM PC or command and option keys on a Macintosh. It has long been rumored that "bucky bits" were named after Buckminster Fuller during a period when he was consulting at Stanford. Actually, bucky bits were invented by Niklaus Wirth when *he* was at Stanford in 1964--65; he first suggested the idea of an EDIT key to set the 8th bit of an otherwise 7 bit ASCII character. It seems that, unknown to Wirth, certain Stanford hackers had privately nicknamed him "Bucky" after a prominent portion of his dental anatomy, and this nickname transferred to the bit. Bucky-bit commands were used in a number of editors written at Stanford, including most notably TV-EDIT and NLS. The term spread to MIT and CMU early and is now in general use. Ironically, Wirth himself remained unaware of its derivation for nearly 30 years, until GLS dug up this history in early 1993! See double bucky, quadruple bucky.
- buddy seat — a seat on a motorcycle or moped for the driver and a passenger sitting one behind the other.
- bustlingly — in a bustling manner
- by mistake — accidentally, not on purpose
- by request — in accordance with someone's desire
- bytesexual — (jargon) /bi:t" sek"shu-*l/ An adjective used to describe hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI problem.
- cad system — A CAD system is a computer system for designing parts or products before they are manufactured.
- caecostomy — (surgery) An operation involving bringing the caecum through the abdominal wall, most often by a tube, and opening it for drainage or decompression, usually to treat an obstruction of the colon.
- calotypist — a person who produces photographs using the calotype process
- candytufts — Plural form of candytuft.
- captiously — In a captious manner.
- case study — A case study is a written account that gives detailed information about a person, group, or thing and their development over a period of time.