12-letter words containing y, t, r, o, i
- top security — ultra secure
- tragi-comedy — A tragi-comedy is a play or other written work that is both sad and amusing.
- tragic irony — dramatic irony in tragic drama.
- transmogrify — to change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.
- trichinopoly — a city in central Tamil Nadu, in S India, on the Kaveri River.
- trichophyton — a parasitic fungus belonging to the genus Trichophyton that can infect human skin, hair, and nails
- trigonometry — the branch of mathematics that deals with the relations between the sides and angles of plane or spherical triangles, and the calculations based on them.
- triple bogey — a score of three strokes over par on a hole.
- troglodytism — the condition of being a troglodyte
- trolley line — the route of a trolley car or trolley bus.
- trolley wire — an overhead wire that provides the current required for the trolleys of electric vehicles
- trophy child — anything taken in war, hunting, competition, etc., especially when preserved as a memento; spoil, prize, or award.
- trypanocidal — (of a drug, agent, activity, etc) effective in killing trypanosomes
- two-cylinder — (of an engine) having two cylinders
- type i error — the error made in the statistical testing of a hypothesis by rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true.
- typhoid mary — Mary ("Typhoid Mary") 1869?–1938, U.S. cook, born in Ireland: known immune carrier of typhoid fever who infected many with the disease, institutionalized in 1914.
- typing error — an error made while using a keyboard to write something
- typographist — a person skilled in the art of typography
- unconformity — lack of conformity; incongruity; inconsistency.
- ungenerosity — the state of being ungenerous
- unobligatory — required as a matter of obligation; mandatory: A reply is desirable but not obligatory.
- unstationary — standing still; not moving.
- unvirtuously — in an unvirtuous manner; not virtuously; without virtue
- utility room — a room, especially in a house, reserved for the furnace, washing machine, and other appliances.
- variety show — vaudeville performance
- vasodilatory — of or relating to the dilation of blood vessels
- ventnor city — a town in SE New Jersey.
- victoria day — (in Canada) the first Monday preceding May 25, observed as a national holiday.
- victoriously — having achieved a victory; conquering; triumphant: our victorious army.
- victory roll — a roll of an aircraft made by a pilot to announce or celebrate the shooting down of an enemy plane or other cause for celebration
- victory ship — a fast, turbine-powered cargo ship of World War II, having a capacity of about 11,000 dead-weight tons.
- violet layer — a layer of particles in the upper atmosphere of the planet Mars, that scatters and absorbs certain electromagnetic radiation, thus preventing the blue, violet, and ultraviolet light waves from passing through
- vituperatory — abusive or blaming
- vociferosity — the characteristic of being vociferous
- voluntaryism — voluntarism (def 2).
- white bryony — a climbing herbaceous cucurbitaceous plant, Bryonia dioica, of Europe and North Africa, having greenish flowers and red berries
- wordsmithery — the craft or skill of a wordsmith
- zero gravity — the condition in which the apparent effect of gravity is zero, as in the case of a body in free fall or in orbit.
- zoochemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with the constituents of the animal body; animal chemistry.