12-letter words containing t, g, s, y
- see daylight — the light of day: At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.
- self-pitying — Someone who is self-pitying is full of self-pity.
- single entry — an item noted only once.
- single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
- sixty-eighth — next after the sixty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 68.
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- smyth sewing — a method of sewing together folded, gathered, and collated signatures with a single thread sewn through the folds of individual signatures.
- snollygoster — a clever, unscrupulous person.
- sooty grouse — blue grouse.
- sorting yard — sorting tracks.
- spatiography — the study of the characteristics of space beyond the atmosphere, including the mapping of the movements of celestial bodies and the recording of electrical, magnetic, and gravitational effects, especially those likely to affect missiles and spacecraft.
- sphygmometer — a device which measures the rate of the pulse
- sprightfully — in a sprightful manner
- sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
- stageability — a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- staggeringly — tending to stagger or overwhelm: a staggering amount of money required in the initial investment.
- starry night — a painting (1889) by Vincent van Gogh.
- steady-going — steadfast; faithful; unchanging: steady-going service to the cause of justice.
- steatopygous — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
- 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.
- stoichiology — the branch of biology concerned with the study of the cellular components of animal tissues
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
- suggestively — that suggests; referring to other thoughts, persons, etc.: His recommendation was suggestive of his boss's thinking.
- supergravity — a hypothetical symmetry among groups of particles containing fermions and bosons, especially in theories of gravity (supergravity) that unify electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force with gravity into a single unified force.
- supportingly — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- sympathizing — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).
- synecologist — a student of, or expert in, synecology
- syntagmatite — a dark crystalline form of hornblende
- synthesizing — to form (a material or abstract entity) by combining parts or elements (opposed to analyze): to synthesize a statement.
- thymus gland — a ductless, butterfly-shaped gland lying at the base of the neck, formed mostly of lymphatic tissue and aiding in the production of T cells of the immune system: after puberty, the lymphatic tissue gradually degenerates.
- to fight shy — If you fight shy of something, you try very hard to avoid it.
- transmogrify — to change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.
- treasury tag — a short piece of cord having metal ends one of which can be slotted inside the other: used for holding papers together or fastening them into a file
- tree surgery — the repair of damaged trees, as by the removal of diseased parts, filling of cavities, and prevention of further decay, and by strengthening branches with braces.
- troglodytism — the condition of being a troglodyte
- typing speed — the number of words someone can accurately type in one minute
- typographist — a person skilled in the art of typography
- ungenerosity — the state of being ungenerous
- unsatisfying — lacking in sth
- unsettlingly — in an unsettling or worrying manner
- unstintingly — to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance: Don't stint on the food. They stinted for years in order to save money.