12-letter words containing t, g, s, y
- jersey giant — one of a breed of large domestic chickens raised primarily for their meat, originally black but now with a white variety, developed in New Jersey by interbreeding Langshans and large Asiatic fowl.
- justifyingly — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
- lay siege to — attack
- legal system — judicial structures and processes: law
- logistically — of or relating to logistics.
- lugubriosity — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
- lymphangitis — inflammation of the lymphatic vessels.
- lysogenicity — the quality or condition of being lysogenic
- methysergide — an ergot alkaloid derivative, C 2 1 H 2 7 N 3 O 2 , used in the prophylaxis and treatment of migraine and cluster headaches.
- ming dynasty — the imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644
- misogynistic — reflecting or exhibiting hatred, dislike, mistrust, or mistreatment of women.
- mystagogical — someone who instructs others before initiation into religious mysteries or before participation in the sacraments.
- mystifyingly — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
- mythogenesis — the creation and development of myths
- mythologizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mythologize.
- naughty bits — genitals
- naughty step — a place where a child is made to stand as a punishment for bad behaviour
- nauseatingly — causing sickness of the stomach; nauseous.
- origin story — a backstory, or established background narrative, that informs the identity and motivations of heroes and villains in a comic book or similar fictional work: The superhero’s origin story begins with a tragic accident that left him scarred, but also resulted in his supernatural powers.
- outrageously — In an outrageous manner; to an outrageous degree.
- palynologist — the study of live and fossil spores, pollen grains, and similar plant structures.
- parasitology — the branch of biology dealing with parasites and the effects of parasitism.
- paying guest — lodger
- pearly gates — the entrance to heaven.
- phagocytoses — phagocytize.
- phagocytosis — Physiology. the ingestion of a smaller cell or cell fragment, a microorganism, or foreign particles by means of the local infolding of a cell's membrane and the protrusion of its cytoplasm around the fold until the material has been surrounded and engulfed by closure of the membrane and formation of a vacuole: characteristic of amebas and some types of white blood cells.
- phycologists — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
- physiologist — a specialist in physiology.
- physogastric — pertaining to the swollen, membranous abdomen of certain insects, especially termite and ant queens.
- phytogenesis — the origin and development of plants.
- phytophagous — herbivorous.
- pig industry — the people and activities involved in making pork products
- polygamistic — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
- polyglottous — characterized by being multilingual
- polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- postsphygmic — of or relating to the pulse.
- postvagotomy — of or occurring in the period after a vagotomy
- prodigiosity — the state or quality of being immense, extraordinary or astonishing
- protistology — the biology of the Protista.
- psychologist — a specialist in psychology.
- pussyfooting — behaving in an excessively cautious way
- pyrognostics — the characteristics of a mineral, such as fusibility and flame coloration, that are revealed by the application of heat
- regressivity — regressing or tending to regress; retrogressive.
- safety glass — a pane made by joining two plates or panes of glass with a layer of usually transparent plastic or artificial resin between them that retains the fragments if the glass is broken.
- salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
- sandy blight — trachoma.
- saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
- scatteringly — in a scattering manner
- scintigraphy — the process of producing a scintigram.
- scratchingly — in a scratching manner, with a scratching action