9-letter words containing s, y, t
- backstory — the events which take place before, and which help to bring about, the events portrayed in a film
- baptistry — a part of a Christian church in which baptisms are carried out
- bastardly — of no value; worthless.
- bastardry — malicious or cruel behaviour
- bathybius — a gelatinous substance discovered on the Atlantic seabed, originally thought to be protoplasm, but later discovered to be inorganic
- bay state — Massachusetts
- bestially — of, relating to, or having the form of a beast: the belief that a person could assume bestial form after death; the bestial signs of the zodiac.
- bialystok — a city in E Poland.
- białystok — a city in E Poland: belonged to Prussia (1795–1807) and to Russia (1807–1919). Pop: 315 000 (2005 est)
- bicyclist — A bicyclist is someone who enjoys cycling.
- big style — to a great degree or extent
- biosafety — the precautions taken to control the cultivation and distribution of genetically modified crops and products
- bismuthyl — Chemistry. the univalent group BiO + , occurring in certain bismuth salts, as bismuth oxychloride, BiOCl.
- blavatsky — Elena Petrovna (jɪˈljɛnə pɪˈtrɔvnə), called Madame Blavatsky. 1831–91, Russian theosophist; author of Isis Unveiled (1877)
- boy scout — The Boy Scouts is an organization for boys which teaches them discipline and practical skills.
- boyshorts — women's underpants which resemble close-fitting shorts, sitting below the waist and stretching to the tops of the legs
- brimstony — of, relating to or resembling brimstone; sulphurous
- buckstays — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- bulbosity — the quality of being bulbous
- busy-wait — (programming) To wait for an event by spinning through a tight loop or timed-delay loop that polls for the event on each pass, as opposed to setting up an interrupt handler and continuing execution on another part of the task. This is a wasteful technique, best avoided on time-sharing systems where a busy-waiting program may hog the processor.
- buttinsky — a busybody
- by rights — If something is not the case but you think that it should be, you can say that by rights it should be the case.
- by-street — a side street or a private or obscure street; byway.
- byelostok — a city in E Poland.
- bystander — A bystander is a person who is present when something happens and who sees it but does not take part in it.
- callosity — hardheartedness
- calotypes — Plural form of calotype.
- camstairy — perverse or unruly
- cariosity — (medicine) caries.
- carnosity — an abnormal fleshy protrusion growing on any part of the body
- carrycots — Plural form of carrycot.
- caryatids — Plural form of caryatid.
- cast away — to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the dice.
- castaways — Plural form of castaway.
- casuistry — Casuistry is the use of clever arguments to persuade or trick people.
- cat's-eye — any of a group of gemstones, esp a greenish-yellow variety of chrysoberyl, that reflect a streak of light when cut in a rounded unfaceted shape
- cataclysm — A cataclysm is an event that causes great change or harm.
- catalepsy — a state of prolonged rigid posture, occurring for example in schizophrenia or in hypnotic trances
- catalysed — to act upon by catalysis.
- catalyser — Alternative form of catalyzer.
- catalyses — Chemistry. the causing or accelerating of a chemical change by the addition of a catalyst.
- catalysis — Catalysis is the speeding up of a chemical reaction by adding a catalyst to it.
- catalysts — Plural form of catalyst.
- catalyzes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of catalyze.
- cattishly — In a cattish manner.
- cattleyas — Plural form of cattleya.
- causality — Causality is the relationship of cause and effect.
- cecostomy — Alternative spelling of caecostomy.
- cetshwayo — ?1826–84, king of the Zulus (1873–79): defeated the British at Isandhlwana (1879) but was overwhelmed by them at Ulundi (1879); captured, he stated his case in London, and was reinstated as ruler of part of Zululand (1883)
- chemistry — Chemistry is the scientific study of the structure of substances and of the way that they react with other substances.