12-letter words containing t, y, s, i, e
- single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
- sixteenpenny — noting a nail 3½ inches (9 cm) long. Symbol: 16d.
- sixty-eighth — next after the sixty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 68.
- sixty-second — next after the sixty-first; being the ordinal number for 62.
- skye terrier — one of a Scottish breed of small terriers having short legs and a dark or light blue-gray, gray, or fawn coat.
- 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.
- solitary bee — any of numerous bees, as the leaf-cutting bees, that do not live in a community.
- 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.
- sothic cycle — (in the ancient Egyptian calendar) a period of 1460 Sothic years.
- spermaphytic — able to produce seeds
- spermophytic — able to produce seed
- sphericality — the state of being a sphere
- spray millet — the seeds of millet left on the spike and sold in pet shops for cage birds.
- 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.
- stanleyville — former name of Kisangani.
- steady-going — steadfast; faithful; unchanging: steady-going service to the cause of justice.
- steerability — to guide the course of (something in motion) by a rudder, helm, wheel, etc.: to steer a bicycle.
- stereoacuity — the ability of a person to see objects as separate entities along a range of distances
- 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.
- stereotypist — 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.
- story writer — author of prose fiction
- storytelling — the telling or writing of stories.
- 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.
- strike lucky — If you strike lucky or strike it lucky, you have some good luck.
- study period — a period of time or lesson used for studying
- stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- subalternity — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
- subfertility — below-average fertility
- subjectively — existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective).
- subjectivity — the state or quality of being subjective; subjectiveness.
- subspecialty — a lesser or minor specialty: a cinematographer with a subspecialty of portrait photography.
- sufficiently — adequate for the purpose; enough: sufficient proof; sufficient protection.
- 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.
- superquality — above-average quality
- suppletorily — supplying a deficiency.
- susceptivity — receptive.
- sweat equity — unreimbursed labor that results in the increased value of property or that is invested to establish or expand an enterprise.
- sweet cicely — any of several plants, as a European plant, Myrrhis odorata, of the parsley family, used as a potherb, or certain related North American plants of the genus Osmorhiza.
- sycophantize — to act the sycophant
- sylvester ii — (Gerbert) died 1003, French ecclesiastic: pope 999–1003.
- sylviculture — the cultivation of forest trees; forestry.
- symmetallism — the use of an alloy of two or more metals in fixed relative value as the standard of value and currency
- symptomatize — symptomize.
- synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
- synaesthesia — synesthesia.