12-letter words containing y, e, i, s
- 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.
- submissively — inclined or ready to submit or yield to the authority of another; unresistingly or humbly obedient: submissive servants.
- subserviency — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
- subspecialty — a lesser or minor specialty: a cinematographer with a subspecialty of portrait photography.
- subversively — Also, subversionary [suh b-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/ (Show IPA). tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
- succeedingly — being that which follows; subsequent; ensuing: laws to benefit succeeding generations.
- successively — following in order or in uninterrupted sequence; consecutive: three successive days.
- 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.
- sunnyside up — (of an egg) fried without breaking the yolk or being turned over, with the yolk remaining visible and somewhat liquid inside.
- superciliary — of or relating to the eyebrow.
- 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.
- superhighway — a highway designed for travel at high speeds, having more than one lane for each direction of traffic, a safety strip dividing the two directions, and cloverleaves to route the traffic on and off the highway. Compare expressway.
- superquality — above-average quality
- suppletorily — supplying a deficiency.
- supply-sider — a person, especially an economist, who advocates supply-side economics.
- 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.
- sybase, inc. — (company) A software vendor focused on database management software. Yearly sales: $903.9 million (1997). Address: 6475 Christie Ave., Emeryville, California, USA.
- sycophantize — to act the sycophant
- sydney silky — silky terrier.
- 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.
- synaesthesis — the harmonious combination of differing impulses arising from a work of art
- synaesthetic — synesthesia.
- synchroneity — the state of being synchronous; synchronism.
- syncretistic — the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion.
- synecdochism — the use of synecdoche
- synecologist — a student of, or expert in, synecology
- synectically — from a synectic point of view
- synergically — in a synergic manner
- 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.
- syntheticism — a synthetic nature or approach
- systematical — having, showing, or involving a system, method, or plan: a systematic course of reading; systematic efforts.
- systematized — to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.
- systemically — of or relating to a system.
- systems disk — a disk used to store computer programs, esp the basic operating programs of a computer
- take it easy — relax
- the olympics — the Olympic Games
- thirty-seven — a cardinal number, 30 plus 7.