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12-letter words containing t, o, n, e, y

  • relationally — in a relational manner
  • remuneratory — affording remuneration; profitable: remunerative work.
  • 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.
  • responsivity — the quality or state of being responsive.
  • 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.
  • run on empty — to be at a level of energy, creativity, etc. that is inadequate to sustain worthwhile activity or achievement
  • second-story — of or located on the second story or floor.
  • semi-monthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
  • semiautonomy — the quality or state of being semiautonomous.
  • sensitometry — the science of determining the sensitivity of photographic materials.
  • sensory root — a nerve fiber bundle that emerges from either side of the spinal cord and joins with a complementary bundle to form each spinal nerve in the series of spinal nerves: the root at the rear of the spinal cord (dorsal root or sensory root) conveys sensations to the central nervous system, and the root at the front (ventral root or motor root) conveys impulses to the muscles.
  • serotaxonomy — the study of the taxonomy of proteins using serological methods
  • seventy-four — a cardinal number, 70 plus 4.
  • sixty-second — next after the sixty-first; being the ordinal number for 62.
  • skeleton key — a key with nearly the whole substance of the bit filed away so that it may open various locks.
  • smotheringly — in a smothering manner
  • snollygoster — a clever, unscrupulous person.
  • snotty-faced — having visible nasal mucus on the face
  • snotty-nosed — child: runny nose
  • solzhenitsyn — Alexander or Aleksandr (Isayevich) [al-ig-zan-der ee-sahy-uh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr ee-sah-yi-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər iˈsaɪ ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr iˈsɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1918–2008, Russian novelist: Nobel prize 1970; in the U.S. 1974–94.
  • sonnet cycle — a group of sonnets composed by one poet and having a unifying theme or subject.
  • sound system — equipment for playing music
  • stanley pool — a lake between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Congo-Brazzaville, formed by a widening of the River Congo. Area: 829 sq km (320 sq miles)
  • steady-going — steadfast; faithful; unchanging: steady-going service to the cause of justice.
  • 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.
  • sternutatory — Also, sternutative. causing or tending to cause sneezing.
  • stoney creek — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
  • stonyhearted — unfeeling; pitiless; cruel
  • stop payment — an order by the drawer of a check to his or her bank not to pay a specified check.
  • storytelling — the telling or writing of stories.
  • street money — walking-around money (def 2).
  • streptolysin — a type of hemolysin produced by certain species of streptococcus.
  • streptomycin — an antibiotic, C 2 1 H 3 9 N 7 O 1 2 , produced by a soil actinomycete, Streptomyces griseus, and used in medicine in the form of its white, water-soluble sulfate salt, chiefly in the treatment of tuberculosis.
  • student body — all the students enrolled at an educational institution.
  • stupendously — causing amazement; astounding; marvelous: stupendous news.
  • sub-attorney — a lawyer; attorney-at-law.
  • sycophantize — to act the sycophant
  • synantherous — with united anthers
  • synarthroses — immovable articulation; a fixed or immovable joint; suture.
  • synchroneity — the state of being synchronous; synchronism.
  • synecologist — a student of, or expert in, synecology
  • take pity on — show compassion, mercy
  • technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
  • tectonically — of or relating to building or construction; constructive; architectural.
  • teeny bopper — a teenage girl, especially a young one.
  • teeny-bopper — a teenage girl, especially a young one.
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