9-letter words containing t, o, y, i, s
- pomposity — the quality of being pompous.
- posterity — succeeding or future generations collectively: Judgment of this age must be left to posterity.
- psychotic — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
- radiosity — (graphics) A method for rendering a view of a three-dimensional scene that provides realistic lighting effects, such as interobject reflections and color bleeding. Radiosity methods are computationally intense, due to the use of linear systems of equations and the spatial complexity of large scenes.
- satyricon — a satirical novel, interspersed with verse, written in the 1st century a.d. by Petronius, extant in fragments.
- sciophyte — any plant that grows best in the shade
- scriptory — of or relating to writing
- seniority — the state of being senior; priority of birth; superior age.
- serotypic — of or relating to a serotype
- signatory — having signed, or joined in signing, a document: the signatory powers to a treaty.
- sinuosity — Often, sinuosities. a curve, bend, or turn: a sinuosity of the road.
- sixty-odd — around sixty; approximately sixty (people or things)
- sixty-one — a cardinal number, 60 plus 1.
- sixty-two — a cardinal number, 60 plus 2.
- sky pilot — a member of the clergy, especially a chaplain of the armed forces.
- sky-pilot — a member of the clergy, especially a chaplain of the armed forces.
- sociality — social nature or tendencies as shown in the assembling of individuals in communities.
- solemnity — the state or character of being solemn; earnestness; gravity; impressiveness: the solemnity of a state funeral.
- sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
- sottishly — in a sottish manner
- spinosity — the condition of being spinose
- staminody — the metamorphosis of any of various flower organs, as a sepal or a petal, into a stamen.
- stoically — impassive; characterized by a calm, austere fortitude befitting the Stoics: a stoical sufferer.
- stolidity — not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive.
- stony pit — a disease of pears, caused by a virus and characterized by deformed, pitted fruit.
- storyline — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- styliform — having the shape of an ancient style; stylar.
- stylolite — an irregular columnar structure in certain limestones, the columns being approximately at right angles to the bedding planes.
- stylopize — (of a stylops) to parasitize (a host)
- syllogist — a person who engages in syllogistic argument.
- symbionts — an organism living in a state of symbiosis.
- symbiotic — living in symbiosis, or having an interdependent relationship: Many people feel the relationship between humans and dogs is symbiotic.
- symbolist — a person who uses symbols or symbolism.
- symington — (William) Stuart, 1901–1988, U.S. politician: senator 1952–77.
- sympatico — simpatico
- symptosis — local or general atrophy.
- symptotic — relating to symptosis
- synoptist — one of the authors (Matthew, Mark, or Luke) of the synoptic Gospels.
- synovitic — inflammation of a synovial membrane.
- synovitis — inflammation of a synovial membrane.
- syntonize — to render syntonic; tune to the same frequency.
- taylorism — a modified form of Calvinism that maintains that every person has a free will, and that makes a distinction between depravity, as the tendency to commit sins, and sin, as a voluntary choice of evil actions.
- tediosity — tediousness
- tediously — marked by monotony or tedium; long and tiresome: tedious tasks; a tedious journey.
- testimony — Law. the statement or declaration of a witness under oath or affirmation, usually in court.
- thyristor — a semiconductor device having two stable states, used as an electronic switch.
- tiny clos — A core part of Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) ported to Scheme and rebuilt using a MOP (Metaobject Protocol). This should be interesting to those who want to use MOPs without using a full Common Lisp or Dylan. The first release works with MIT Scheme 11.74.
- tomboyish — an energetic, sometimes boisterous girl whose behavior and pursuits, especially in games and sports, are considered more typical of boys than of girls.
- touristry — tourists collectively: the yearly invasion of American touristry.
- toyohashi — a seaport on S Honshu, in central Japan.