12-letter words containing y, e, r, s, i, n
- gas cylinder — container for storing gas
- geyser basin — an area containing a group of geysers.
- henley-shirt — a short- or long-sleeved pullover sport shirt, usually of cotton, with a round neckband and an often covered neckline placket.
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- hydrastinine — a white, crystalline, poisonous alkaloid, C 11 H 13 NO 3 , synthesized from hydrastine: used to arrest bleeding, especially in the uterus.
- hydrokinesis — (science fiction): The psychic ability to manipulate or control water.
- hypergenesis — an origin, creation, or beginning.
- hyperintense — existing or occurring in a high or extreme degree: intense heat.
- hyperkinesia — Pathology. an abnormal amount of uncontrolled muscular action; spasm.
- hyperkinesis — Pathology. an abnormal amount of uncontrolled muscular action; spasm.
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- hypersthenia — abnormal strength or tension
- hypertension — Pathology. elevation of the blood pressure, especially the diastolic pressure. an arterial disease characterized by this condition.
- hypertensive — characterized by or causing high blood pressure.
- hysterogenic — inducing hysteria.
- hysteromania — unusually increased sexual desire in a woman
- impersonally — In an impersonal manner.
- increasingly — growing larger or greater; enlarging; augmenting.
- indecorously — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
- indiscreetly — not discreet; lacking prudence, good judgment, or circumspection: an indiscreet remark.
- industrywide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
- inquiry desk — a section of an office, business etc, which deals with inquiries nor requests for information
- insect spray — a substance which can be sprayed in the home to kill insects
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- intercessory — having the function of interceding: an intercessory prayer.
- interestedly — In an interested manner.
- interpsychic — of or relating to the human soul or mind; mental (opposed to physical).
- intersensory — of or relating to the senses or sensation.
- intersociety — intersocietal
- intervarsity — any first-string team, especially in sports, that represents a school, college, university, or the like: He is on the varsity in tennis and in debating.
- iridescently — In an iridescent manner.
- iron pyrites — pyrite; fool's gold.
- iskander bey — Scanderbeg.
- jersey giant — one of a breed of large domestic chickens raised primarily for their meat, originally black but now with a white variety, developed in New Jersey by interbreeding Langshans and large Asiatic fowl.
- karyokinesis — mitosis.
- lawyerliness — Quality of being lawyerly.
- misery index — an unofficial indication of a nation's economic health, derived by adding the percentage rate of inflation to the percentage of unemployed workers: With inflation running at 15 percent and unemployment at 8 percent, the misery index is 23 percent.
- money spider — any of certain small shiny brownish spiders of the family Linyphiidae
- multisensory — of or relating to the senses or sensation.
- mycoproteins — Plural form of mycoprotein.
- myringoscope — an instrument for examining the eardrum
- ninety-first — next after the ninetieth; being the ordinal number for 91.
- nonsymmetric — Not symmetric; asymmetrical.
- nurserymaids — Plural form of nurserymaid.
- on your side — If something is on your side or if you have it on your side, it helps you when you are trying to achieve something.
- overanalysis — the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (opposed to synthesis).
- pay increase — a rise in pay or salary
- pecksniffery — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
- perniciously — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
- persistently — persisting, especially in spite of opposition, obstacles, discouragement, etc.; persevering: a most annoyingly persistent young man.