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12-letter words containing t, e, r, n, a, y

  • penitentiary — a place for imprisonment, reformatory discipline, or punishment, especially a prison maintained in the U.S. by a state or the federal government for serious offenders.
  • pentahydrate — a hydrate that contains five molecules of water, as potassium molybdate, KMoO 4 ⋅5H 2 O.
  • pentahydroxy — (of a molecule) containing five hydroxyl groups.
  • perenniality — lasting for an indefinitely long time; enduring: her perennial beauty.
  • perinatology — a field of medicine focusing on problems emerging during the perinatal period.
  • peritoneally — through the peritoneum
  • phanerophyte — a tree or shrub that bears its perennating buds more than 25 cm above the level of the soil
  • plain turkey — a bustard
  • polyurethane — a thermoplastic polymer containing the group NHCOO: used for padding and insulation in furniture, clothing, and packaging, and in the manufacture of resins for adhesives, elastomers, and fillers.
  • prayer plant — a plant, Maranta leuconeura, native to Brazil, that is widely cultivated for its variegated leaves that close up at night.
  • precipitancy — the quality or state of being precipitant.
  • presbyterian — pertaining to or based on the principle of ecclesiastical government by presbyters or presbyteries.
  • presentially — in a presential way
  • property man — a member of the stage crew in charge of the stage properties
  • proteoglycan — a macromolecule composed of a polysaccharide joined to a polypeptide and forming the ground substance of connective tissue.
  • protuberancy — protuberance.
  • prudentially — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
  • put years on — to make (someone) feel or look much older
  • pyrithiamine — an antivitamin that causes thiamine deficiency
  • pyromagnetic — (formerly) thermomagnetic (def 1).
  • reflationary — economy: relating to reflation
  • regenerately — in a regenerate manner
  • relationally — in a relational manner
  • remuneratory — affording remuneration; profitable: remunerative work.
  • renewability — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
  • renunciatory — an act or instance of relinquishing, abandoning, repudiating, or sacrificing something, as a right, title, person, or ambition: the king's renunciation of the throne.
  • residentiary — residing; resident.
  • resyndicated — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
  • rockumentary — a documentary about rock music.
  • roentgen ray — (sometimes lowercase) x-ray.
  • royal antler — the third prong from the base of a stag's antler.
  • royal assent — (in Britain) the formal signing of an act of Parliament by the sovereign, by which it becomes law
  • royal tennis — court tennis.
  • sacramentary — a sacramentarian
  • saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
  • scatteringly — in a scattering manner
  • security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
  • serotaxonomy — the study of the taxonomy of proteins using serological methods
  • sexcentenary — pertaining to 600 or a period of 600 years; marking the completion of 600 years.
  • single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
  • staggeringly — tending to stagger or overwhelm: a staggering amount of money required in the initial investment.
  • stand surety — to act as a surety
  • sternutatory — Also, sternutative. causing or tending to cause sneezing.
  • stonyhearted — unfeeling; pitiless; cruel
  • sub-attorney — a lawyer; attorney-at-law.
  • subalternity — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
  • subcentrally — in a subcentral manner
  • synantherous — with united anthers
  • synarthroses — immovable articulation; a fixed or immovable joint; suture.
  • technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
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