12-Letter Words Ending in Y

Absorptiveness.

""Botany Capable of being divided into equal halves along any diameter, as the flowers of the rose or tulip; radially symmetrical.""

Possibility of being modified

Openness to change

""(tr) (Law) Law to bring (a person) into a specific relationship, esp to take (another's child) as one's own child""

Like an amphibious being.

The study of man

Study of humankind

Study of human beings and their way of life

Thinking ahead, snap up article dividing Labour (wordplay)

EPILEPSY a disorder of the nervous system

MONOPOLY exclusive control or power

Antiphonal

APERIODIC

In an apocryphal manner; mythically; not indisputably.

Apolitical

The state or quality of being apostolical.

Intestinal operation

Abdominal operation

Certain surgery

Appetizing

Appositive

Appraising

""Showing appreciation; appreciative; as, appreciatory commendation. as, appreciatory commendation.""

With reference to the archetype; originally. "Parts archetypally distinct." archetypally distinct."

Oily treatment of slippery Yamaha porter

Treatment using natural essences

Remedial use of essential plant oils

In a favorable way

List of books on a subject

List of sources used in preparation of a book

Worn by athlete at photo finish in oily sport at end of academic endeavour

The branch of biology which deals with the geographical distribution of animals and plants. It includes both zo\'94geography and phytogeography.

Biparental

BRONCHOS broncho

Capacitive

Capricious

Description of the heart.

""CEPHALIC pertaining to the head, also KEPHALIC""

The measurement of the heads of living persons.

The use of chemical agents to treat or control disease (or mental illness); -- also used especially in reference to the use of chemicals to treat cancer.

Steps on a stage

The designing of ballet steps

Routine arrangements for trippers

A description or record of past time; history.

DEPENDENCY State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust.

Ship's stair

Steps on a ship

Steps between decks

Compelling

Serving for compensation; making amends.

In a complacent manner.

Compressed

By compulsion; by force.

COMPULSIVE Having power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion.

; by force or constraint. by force or constraint.

Conceptual

With passing of the same age

Marlowe was Shakespeare's

Peer's perverse, penning funny poem

In a contemptible manner.

""PROSPERITY The state of being prosperous; advance or gain in anything good or desirable; successful progress in any business or enterprise; attainment of the object desired; good fortune; success; as, commercial prosperity; national prosperity. as, commercial prosperity; national prosperity.""

The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence.

Corruptive

A cracking job!

Study of final resting places (wordplay)

Study of writing and deciphering codes

Tending to depreciate; undervaluing; depreciative.

In a depressing manner.

Depressive

Despairing

Despiteful

Despitefully.

Dejectedly, hopelessly

How Ivan the Terrible ruled

Translucently.

Relating to rules of conduct

Revulsive love photos in journal about correction

Discrepant

Girl with something to tell? Writes article in that medical book

Dispersive

Dispirited

In a disreputable manner.

Disruptive

Dissipated

Abstract noun (-ity)

In the form of an ellipse.

EMPATHIC pertaining to {empathy=n}

They claim pal is suffering with stress

In a forceful way

ENTROPIC pertaining to {entropy=n}

""EPHEMERAL Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower. as, an ephemeral flower.""

In an epidemic manner.

Study of the incidence and distribution of diseases

EPIPHYTE a plant growing on another plant

Episodical

The theory or science of the method or grounds of knowledge.

Euphonical

Euphonious

EUPHORIC pertaining to {euphoria=n}

EXPANSION The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.

Expressive

""EXPRESSIVE Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. of; as, words expressive of his gratitude.""

Extemporal

See photofluorography .

Abnormal enlargement of the liver.

Having dissimilar leaves on one plant.

HETEROPLOID

HETEROTROPH

""A usually congenital condition in which an abnormal accumulation of fluid in the cerebral ventricles causes enlargement of the skull and compression of the brain, destroying much of the neural tissue.""

Use of water in a medical treatment

New trophy ready, supporting hospital's remedial treatment

Hypabyssal

Minute edited from chirpy daytime broadcast is source of internal discomfort

They pray corruptly to frame detectives with one internal complaint

Under treatment (wordplay)

Treatment aimed at recovering suppressed memories

Happy then, or poorly, youth's beginning course of treatment

HYPNOTIC a sleep-inducing drug

DIPLOIDY the condition of being a diploid

""TONICITY normal, healthy bodily condition""

Lack of bias

Fairness

In an impenetrable manner or state; imperviously.

Without repentance.

In an imperative manner.

""IMPERISHABLE Not perisha ble; not subject to decay; indestructible; enduringpermanently; as, an imperishable monument; imperishable renown. as, an imperishable monument; imperishable renown.""

Lack of permanence.

Hint about a loner's dreadfully without human feelings

Impertinence.

Impervious

IMPONDERABLE Not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed.

Impressive

The quality of being imputable; imputableness.

Imputative

Inapparent

""INAPPLICABLE Not applicable; incapable of being applied; not adapted; not suitable; as, the argument is inapplicable to the case. as, the argument is inapplicable to the case.""

Inapposite

The quality of being incapable; incapacity.

Matchlessly

In an incompatible manner; inconsistently; incongruously.

INCOMPETENCE

In an incomplete manner.

INCOMPUTABLE Not computable.

The quality of being incorporeal; immateriality.

Independence.

INDISPUTABLE Not disputable; incontrovertible; too evident to admit of dispute.

""The quality or state of being inexpedient; lack of fitness; unsuitableness to the end or object; impropriety; as, the inexpedience of some measures.as, the inexpedience of some measures.""

In an inexplicable manner.

So as to be inexpugnable; in an inexpugnable manner.

""INHOSPITABLE Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people. as, an inhospitable person or people.""

COMPANY to associate with

Occurring within or between the branches of a company: an intracompany network.

ISOTOPIC pertaining to an {isotope=n}

""Pl -ties (Medicine / Surgery) plastic surgery of the cornea, esp involving corneal grafting keratoplastic   adj KINAESTHESIA (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Physiology) the sensation by which bodily position, weight, muscle tension, and movement are perceived Also called muscle sense [from New Latin, from Greek kinein to move + aesthesia ]""

The art of using the laryngoscope; investigations made with the laryngoscope.

The compiling of dictionaries

The compilation of dictionaries

Writing and compiling of dictionaries

""A description of the lymphatic vessels, their origin and uses.""

Of or pertaining to manipulation.

MICROCEPHAL

Monopodial

Host put illicit rum with my round

Large number or variety

Great variety

District with cup in Italy? I'm excited

An apparatus used to measure the size and concentration of particles in a liquid by analysis of light scattered by the liquid.

Scientific study of the seas

A subject for deep study

Study of the sea

With all-encompassing power

Pl. oophorectomies Surgical removal of one or both ovaries. Also called ovariectomy .

Opalescent

Generously display palms

Generously

He'd lend, no pay, all required in most generous fashion

OPERATIC the technique of staging operas

The condition or quality of being opposable.

Oppressive

More than is required for six deliveries (wordplay)

Problem with space? Ring father going back to room for everybody!

Fail to explain fully enough

Crudely dumb down

Make too easy

Pleasant-tasting quality

Fossils

The branch of ecology that deals with the interaction between ancient organisms and their environment.

One of Thomas Jefferson's pursuits

Earth science that studies fossils

Fossils

Palliative

PANSEXUAL

""A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days.""

Paralyzing

Aim IRA partly devised for one of its members

(Member) of organised armed civilian combat group

Member of armed anti-government organisation

""PARANOIC one affected with paranoia, also PARANOID""

Paranormal

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Parenteral

(In)temperate advice, part 3

Very careful with clay, oddly

In a marked way

With great ardour

With great emotion

Pathetical

See pathology .

In a pedantic manner.

Pejorative

An American can!

Intern a type I fancy, here (wordplay)

Correctional institution for criminals

In the form of a pentagon; with five angles.

Perceptive

The quality or state of being perceptive; power of perception.

Perceptual

Percipient

Percussive

In a peremptory manner; absolutely; positively.

In a perfective manner.

""PERFECTIVE Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection; usually followed by of. of.""

In a perfidious manner.

English word

From time to time.

Peripheral

Peritoneal

Perjurious

The quality or state of being permeable.

In a permissive manner.

Pl. permittivities A measure of the ability of a material to resist the formation of an electric field within it.

Pernicious

With great tenacity.

In a tenacious manner

Incessantly; resolutely

Insight into and understanding of things

Astute intelligence

Shrewdness

""Of, pertaining to, or producing, perspiration; as, the perspiratory ducts. as, the perspiratory ducts.""

Convincingly repulsive, say, after makeover

Chicanery

Non-PC study of drugs (wordplay)

The science or study of drugs

The science or study of drugstore drugs

Male - no, males - with exterior that's friendly to a remarkable extent

Love of mankind

Promotion of others' welfare

The donating of money to good causes

Blood and Blood Vessels ()

PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}