12-letter words containing t, o, y, i, s
- fight shy of — bashful; retiring.
- fish factory — a factory where fish is processed
- flagitiously — In a flagitious manner.
- folk society — an often small, homogeneous, and isolated community or society functioning chiefly through primary contacts and strongly attached to its traditional ways of living.
- food stylist — a person whose job is to arrange food in an attractive way for professional photographs or broadcasts.
- forestaysail — a triangular sail set on a forestay; the innermost headsail of a vessel.
- forrest city — a city in E Arkansas.
- fortuitously — In a fortuitous manner.
- forty-niners — a person, especially a prospector, who went to California in 1849 during the gold rush.
- fosphenytoin — a prodrug that produces phenytoin and is taken to prevent or treat seizures.
- fuliginosity — The condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness.
- geochemistry — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
- geophysicist — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
- gratuitously — given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary.
- gymnosophist — one of a group of Jainist philosophers, existing from ancient times to c1000, characterized by refusal to wear clothes and the abandonment of caste marks; a member of the Digambara sect.
- gynecologist — a physician specializing in gynecology. Abbreviation: GYN, gyn.
- gynecomastia — abnormal enlargement of the breast in a male.
- haematolysis — Haemolysis.
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- hidrocystoma — An adenoma of the sweat glands.
- high society — society (def 9).
- histiocytoma — A tumour consisting of histiocytes.
- historically — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- historiology — (obsolete) a discourse on history.
- hockey stick — the stick used in field hockey or ice hockey.
- holistically — incorporating the concept of holism, or the idea that the whole is more than merely the sum of its parts, in theory or practice: holistic psychology.
- holy thistle — lady's-thistle.
- hominy grits — grits (def 1).
- homocysteine — An amino acid that occurs in the body as an intermediate in the metabolism of methionine and cysteine.
- homozygosity — having identical pairs of genes for any given pair of hereditary characteristics.
- hyannis port — a town in SE Massachusetts, on Nantucket Sound: summer resort.
- hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
- hydrologists — Plural form of hydrologist.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- hydrostatics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the statics of fluids, usually confined to the equilibrium and pressure of liquids.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hydrotropism — oriented growth in response to water.
- hygrochastic — of or relating to the opening of a fruit or flower caused by water or moisture
- hyperostosis — abnormal development of bony tissue.
- hypertension — Pathology. elevation of the blood pressure, especially the diastolic pressure. an arterial disease characterized by this condition.
- hypnotisable — Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
- hypocoristic — endearing, as a pet name, diminutive, or euphemism.
- hypoesthesia — an abnormally weak sense of pain, heat, cold, or touch.
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
- hypostasised — to assume the reality of (an idea, proposition, etc.); hypostatize.
- hypostatised — to treat or regard (a concept, idea, etc.) as a distinct substance or reality.
- hypostatized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypostatize.
- hyposulphite — Also called hydrosulfite. a salt of hyposulfurous acid.
- hypothesis's — a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation (working hypothesis) or accepted as highly probable in the light of established facts.