12-letter words containing y, e, n, a
- stanleyville — former name of Kisangani.
- steady-going — steadfast; faithful; unchanging: steady-going service to the cause of justice.
- sternutatory — Also, sternutative. causing or tending to cause sneezing.
- 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.
- sub-attorney — a lawyer; attorney-at-law.
- subalternity — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
- subcentrally — in a subcentral manner
- successantly — in succession
- sulfonylurea — any of a group of oral drugs, as tolbutamide, that stimulate the pancreas to secrete more insulin, used to treat diabetes
- sunday paper — a newspaper which is only published on Sundays
- 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
- synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
- synaesthesia — synesthesia.
- synaesthesis — the harmonious combination of differing impulses arising from a work of art
- synaesthetic — synesthesia.
- synantherous — with united anthers
- synarthroses — immovable articulation; a fixed or immovable joint; suture.
- synectically — from a synectic point of view
- synergically — in a synergic manner
- syngman rhee — Syngman [sing-muh n] /ˈsɪŋ mən/ (Show IPA), 1875–1965, president of South Korea 1948–60.
- syntagmatite — a dark crystalline form of hornblende
- take pity on — show compassion, mercy
- tangentially — pertaining to or of the nature of a tangent; being or moving in the direction of a tangent.
- technicality — technical character.
- 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.
- tercentenary — commemoration of 300 years
- ternary form — a musical form in three sections, with the third usually an exact repetition of the first.
- testamentary — of, relating to, or of the nature of a testament or will.
- tetracycline — an antibiotic, C 22 H 24 H 2 O 8 , derived from chlortetracycline, used in medicine to treat a broad variety of infections.
- teutonically — of or relating to the ancient Teutons.
- thaumatogeny — the belief that the origin of life was the result of a miracle
- the kootenay — a lake in British Columbia: fed chiefly by the Kootenay; drains into the Columbia River
- the nativity — the birth of Jesus
- theory-laden — (of an expression) capable of being understood only within the context of a specific theory, as for example superego, which requires the apparatus of Freudian theory in explanation
- tidal energy — energy obtained by harnessing tidal power
- towaway zone — See example at towaway.
- toynbee hall — a residential settlement in East London, named after Arnold Toynbee (1852–83), a British economist and social reformer
- transitively — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
- translucency — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
- transparency — Also, transparence. the quality or state of being transparent.
- transversely — lying or extending across or in a cross direction; cross.
- tricentenary — of or relating to a period of 300 years
- true anomaly — the anomaly of a planet; its angular distance from perihelion or aphelion.
- trying plane — a plane with a long body for planing the edges of long boards
- trypaflavine — acriflavine hydrochloride.
- tyndall beam — the visible path of light produced by the scattering action (Tyndall effect) of the particles in a colloidal solution on a beam of light passed through it.
- typing paper — paper for typing on