12-letter words containing s, y, t
- steady-going — steadfast; faithful; unchanging: steady-going service to the cause of justice.
- stealthfully — secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.
- steatopygous — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
- steerability — to guide the course of (something in motion) by a rudder, helm, wheel, etc.: to steer a bicycle.
- step by step — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- stepmotherly — related to or having the characteristics of a stepmother
- stereoacuity — the ability of a person to see objects as separate entities along a range of distances
- stereochromy — the stereochrome process.
- stereography — the art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane.
- 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.
- stereotypist — 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.
- stichomythia — dramatic dialogue, as in a Greek play, characterized by brief exchanges between two characters, each of whom usually speaks in one line of verse during a scene of intense emotion or strong argumentation.
- stichomythic — dramatic dialogue, as in a Greek play, characterized by brief exchanges between two characters, each of whom usually speaks in one line of verse during a scene of intense emotion or strong argumentation.
- stickability — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- sticky blood — a condition of the blood, particularly associated with Hughes syndrome, in which antibodies tend to adhere to platelets and glue them together, leading to an increased likelihood of clotting
- stinky pinky — an oral word game in which one player provides a definition to which the others are to supply a rhyming phrase, as “a mighty nightie” for “a powerful pair of pajamas.”.
- stinky-pinky — an oral word game in which one player provides a definition to which the others are to supply a rhyming phrase, as “a mighty nightie” for “a powerful pair of pajamas.”.
- stock symbol — A stock symbol is a standard abbreviation for a publicly traded stock.
- stoichiology — the branch of biology concerned with the study of the cellular components of animal tissues
- 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.
- storey house — (in W Africa) a house having more than one storey
- story writer — author of prose fiction
- storytelling — the telling or writing of stories.
- 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 money — walking-around money (def 2).
- street party — A street party is the same as a block party.
- streptolysin — a type of hemolysin produced by certain species of streptococcus.
- streptomyces — any of several aerobic bacteria of the genus Streptomyces, certain species of which produce antibiotics.
- 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.
- strike lucky — If you strike lucky or strike it lucky, you have some good luck.
- stringy-bark — any of several eucalyptus trees having a fibrous bark
- strongylosis — a disease, especially of horses, caused by an infestation by strongyles and characterized in serious cases by weakness and anemia.
- structurally — of or relating to structure; pertaining or essential to a structure.
- strychninism — a condition induced by an overdose or by excessive use of strychnine.
- student body — all the students enrolled at an educational institution.
- study period — a period of time or lesson used for studying
- 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.
- stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
- styracaceous — belonging to the Styracaceae, the storax family of plants.
- sub-attorney — a lawyer; attorney-at-law.
- sub-industry — the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry.