11-letter words containing t, e, n, s, y
- present-day — current; modern: present-day techniques; present-day English.
- prest money — a sum of money advanced to men enlisting in the navy or the army, given to bind the bargain and as an inducement.
- presynaptic — being or occurring on the transmitting end of a discharge across a synapse.
- proselyting — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
- psyche knot — a woman's hairdo in which a knot or coil of hair projects from the back of the head.
- psychotogen — a substance that causes a psychotic reaction.
- pythonesque — denoting a kind of humour that is absurd and unpredictable; zany; surreal
- questionary — a questionnaire.
- quiescently — being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless: a quiescent mind.
- resentingly — in a resenting manner; resentfully
- resiliently — springing back; rebounding.
- resistingly — in a resisting manner
- rest energy — the energy equivalent to the mass of a particle at rest in an inertial frame of reference, equal to the rest mass times the square of the speed of light.
- resultantly — that results; following as a result or consequence.
- resultingly — as a result.
- resynthesis — the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity (opposed to analysis, ) the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements.
- retinoscopy — an objective method of determining the refractive error of an eye.
- safety zone — A safety zone is a place in the middle of a road crossing where you can wait before you cross the other half of the road.
- sand myrtle — an evergreen shrub, Leiophyllum buxifolium, of the heath family, native to the eastern U.S., having simple, leathery leaves and clusters of white or pink flowers.
- say amen to — to express strong approval of or support for (an assertion, hope, etc)
- scent spray — perfume that comes in an aerosol bottle
- schenectady — a city in E New York, on the Mohawk River.
- scientology — the philosophy of the Church of Scientology, a nondenominational movement founded in the US in the 1950s, which emphasizes self-knowledge as a means of realizing full spiritual potential
- seasonality — the state or quality of being seasonal or dependent on the seasons: the seasonality of Halloween costumes.
- second city — Chicago, Ill.
- sedimentary — of, relating to, or of the nature of sediment.
- seditionary — of or relating to sedition; seditious.
- seismonasty — a nastic movement in response to shock, esp the rapid folding of the leaflets of the sensitive plant due to changes in turgor pressure caused by vibration
- semimonthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
- sensibility — capacity for sensation or feeling; responsiveness or susceptibility to sensory stimuli.
- sensitively — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
- sensitivity — the state or quality of being sensitive; sensitiveness.
- sentry duty — the duty of serving as a sentry
- serendipity — an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
- set eyes on — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- seventh-day — designating certain Christian denominations that make Saturday their chief day of rest and religious observance: Seventh-Day Adventists.
- seventy-one — a cardinal number, 70 plus 1.
- seventy-six — a cardinal number, 70 plus 6.
- seventy-two — a cardinal number, 70 plus 2.
- short jenny — an in-off into a middle pocket
- short money — (in Britain) the annual payment made to Opposition parties in the House of Commons to help them pay for certain services necessary to the carrying out of their parliamentary duties; established in 1975
- sinisterity — left-handedness
- sir stanley — Arthur Penrhyn [pen-rin] /ˈpɛn rɪn/ (Show IPA), (Dean Stanley) 1815–81, English clergyman and author.
- sixteenthly — in sixteenth place
- sixty-seven — a cardinal number, 60 plus 7.
- slant rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- smart money — money invested or wagered by experienced investors or bettors.
- sneaky pete — a homemade or inferior liquor or wine.
- snowy egret — a white egret, Egretta thula, of the warmer parts of the Western Hemisphere: formerly hunted in great numbers for its plumes, the species is now protected and has recovered.
- soft hyphen — a hyphen that is used only in breaking a word at the end of a line of text.