12-letter words containing y, s, a
- inconsolably — not able to be comforted or consoled; disconsolate: She was inconsolable when her son died.
- inconstantly — In an inconstant manner.
- increasingly — growing larger or greater; enlarging; augmenting.
- indefeasibly — In an indefeasible manner.
- indisputably — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- industrially — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- inelasticity — not elastic; lacking flexibility or resilience; unyielding.
- infix syntax — infix notation
- inhospitably — not inclined to, or characterized by, hospitality, as persons or actions; unfriendly.
- insect spray — a substance which can be sprayed in the home to kill insects
- insouciantly — free from concern, worry, or anxiety; carefree; nonchalant.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insurability — capable of being or proper to be insured, as against loss or harm.
- 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.
- intestinally — occurring in or affecting the intestines.
- intranasally — occurring within or administered through the nose.
- intrapsychic — Within the psyche or mind.
- ipecac syrup — a preparation containing ipecac in a syrupy medium, used as an emetic.
- irascibility — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- irresistably — Misspelling of irresistibly.
- irresolvably — In an irresolvable manner.
- ishikari bay — a bay of the Sea of Japan, on the W coast of Hokkaido, Japan.
- iskander bey — Scanderbeg.
- isoenzymatic — isoenzymic
- isotacticity — (of a polymer) having the same configuration at successive, regularly spaced positions along the chain. See also configuration (def 4).
- isothermally — occurring at constant temperature.
- isotonically — In an isotonic way.
- isotopically — With regard to isotopes.
- james dickey — James, 1923–97, U.S. poet and novelist.
- japanese ivy — Boston ivy
- japanese yew — a yew, Taxus cuspidata, of Japan, grown as an ornamental.
- jay's treaty — the agreement in 1794 between England and the U.S. by which limited trade relations were established, England agreed to give up its forts in the northwestern frontier, and a joint commission was set up to settle border disputes.
- jeopardously — with risk or peril
- 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.
- job analysis — a detailed study of the requirements necessary to complete a job, taking into consideration chiefly the order of operation, material and machinery needed, and the necessary qualifications of workers.
- juristically — of or relating to a jurist or to jurisprudence; juridical.
- kakistocracy — government by the worst persons; a form of government in which the worst persons are in power.
- karyokinesis — mitosis.
- keratoplasty — plastic surgery performed upon the cornea, especially a corneal transplantation.
- keyboardists — Plural form of keyboardist.
- kikuyu grass — a type of fast-growing tropical grass, Pennisetum clandestinum, native to E Africa
- labouriously — Alternative form of laboriously.
- lachrymosity — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- lady's-smock — a N temperate plant, Cardamine pratensis, with white or rose-pink flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- lady's-thumb — a smartweed, Polygonum persicaria, of the buckwheat family, having pink or purplish flowers and lance-shaped leaves with a spot resembling a thumbprint.
- lady-slipper — cypripedium
- ladylikeness — Ladylike behaviour.
- lamprophyres — Plural form of lamprophyre.
- languorously — characterized by languor; languid.
- larch sawfly — a red and black sawfly, Pristiphora erichsonii, the larvae of which infest and feed on the leaves of larch.