12-Letter Words Ending in Y

Science of the physiology of the nervous system

Of or relating to the sensory activity or functions of the nervous system: neurosensory cells.

Delicate operation hiding moola from France

NEUROTIC one affected with a neurosis

""ARBITRARY Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment. as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment.""

CELEBRITY Celebration; solemnization.

EMERGENCY Sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence; a sudden occasion.

Inflected form of LINEARITY Inflected form of LINEAR resembling a straight line

Not participating in migrations; -- used of animals that do not migrate. Opposite of migratory.migratory.

RESIDENCY Residence.

""SECRETORY Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves. as, secretory vessels, nerves.""

VOLUNTARY Proceeding from the will; produced in or by an act of choice.

Memorably observe eminent person pinching contents of till

Nutritious

In an obligatory manner; by reason of obligation.

Scientific study of the seas

A subject for deep study

Study of the sea

Octahedral

Omnivorous

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

OPERATIC the technique of staging operas

Oppressive

Oratorical

Orchestral

By way of ornament.

""Perpendicularly; at right angles; as, a curve cuts a set of curves orthogonally. as, a curve cuts a set of curves orthogonally.""

Out of touch with reality

Relating to an imaginary realm

Spiritual; imaginary

In a shockingly bad manner

ACTIVITY the state of being active

More than is required for six deliveries (wordplay)

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

CLASSIFY to arrange in categories

IDENTIFY to establish the identity of

LITERARY pertaining to books and writings

MATURITY the state of being {mature=adj}

Overmodest

Fail to explain fully enough

Crudely dumb down

Make too easy

""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

Pejorative

An American can!

Intern a type I fancy, here (wordplay)

Correctional institution for criminals

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

Love of mankind

Promotion of others' welfare

The donating of money to good causes

Blood and Blood Vessels ()

""The science which treats of the earth's exterior physical features, climate, life, etc., and of the physical movements or changes on the earth's surface, as the currents of the atmosphere and ocean, the secular variations in heat, moisture, magnetism, etc.; physical geography.""

Of or pertaining to plebiscite.

POLAROGRAPH

""The production of two or more embryos in one seed, due either to the existence and fertilization of more than one embryonic sac or to the origination of embryos outside of the embryonic sac.""

Portentous

English word

Noun (-ery)

""The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; opposed to priority. as, posteriority of time, or of an event; opposed to priority.""

A realistic matter

Why a report is strangely admirable

Deserving of approval

A showery trip rearranged? That's commendable

Unpredictably but properly entertaining start to rowboat race at sea

""The quality or state of being precipitant, or precipitate; headlong hurry; excessive or rash haste in resolving, forming an opinion, or executing a purpose; precipitation; as, the precipitancy of youth.as, the precipitancy of youth.""

Preclusive

In a precocious manner.

Predictive

A previous discovery.

Predominance.

In particular, before reaching August with the second half of July

Preemptive

""Being such that attack, seizure, or capture is possible; vulnerable or assailable: a pregnable fortress.""

""PREHENSILE Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey. as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.""

Premarital

Situated in front of the maxillary bones; pertaining to the premaxill\'91; intermaxillary.

""The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land. as, the preoccupancy of wild land.""

Inflected form of OVULATORY Inflected form of OVULATE to produce ova

Prevenient

In a preventive manner.

""VISIONARY Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions.""

At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.

CEO from City loses head in Monaco

State such as Wales

Liechtenstein or Monacompany

Capable of being printed or of producing a print: printable negatives.

Relating to a trial period

Such a testing period building an airport by 1st October

Reformed Tory a pain around nick, describing testing on release

Procedural

""Enormously; wonderfully; astonishingly; as, prodigiously great. as, prodigiously great.""

Productive

Lower work-rate perhaps as a consequence of dropping routine from activity

It's a measure of how hard people are working to tidy up Victor Rock

In a proficient manner.

In a profligate manner.

Projective

In plentiful fashion

In a pronominal manner<?/ with the nature or office of a pronoun; as a pronoun.

Pronounced

""Having the power to make propitious; pertaining to, or employed in, propitiation; expiatory; as, a propitiatory sacrifice. as, a propitiatory sacrifice.""

Support the object with promise to pay underhand as a good sign (wordplay)

Prosodical

In a affluent and successful manner

Protective

Protensive

Pl. prothonotaries also protonotaries The principal clerk in certain courts of law.

History

""; protozoologist , Biology""

In a protrusive manner.

In the style of a gnome (wordplay)

Dog restrained by lead, one friend famously

In a provincial manner.

Provisional.

In a prudential manner; prudently.

Hygrometry.

Serving or tending to purify; purificative.

Puristical

Purposeful

""PYROGENIC Producing heat; said of substances, as septic poisons, which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever.""

Rabbinical

Study of DJs' physical structure (wordplay)

The study of the effects of radiation and radioisotopes on an ecological population or community.

Allowing the passage of x-rays or other radiation; not radiopaque.

Treatment of disease by means of x-rays or radioactivity. Radiotherapy of cancer is based on the fact that cancer cells are more sensitive to radiation than most other cells in the body.

Rampageous

Reasonless

Fool you finally call in bank in sympathetic way

Rebellious

""CESSIONARY Having surrendered the effects; as, a cessionary bankrupt. as, a cessionary bankrupt.""

""In a reciprocal manner; so that each affects the other, and is equally affected by it; interchangeably; mutually.""

COGNIZABLY In a cognizable manner.

""(&#x2192; auf +acc ) (Chem, fig ) &#x2192; reduzierbar ; (Math) &#x2192; zerlegbar ; drawing, scale &#x2192; verkleinerbar, reduzierbar ; time &#x2192; verkürzbar ; costs &#x2192; herabsetzbar ; to be reducible to something &#x2192; sich auf etw (acc) &#x2192; reduzieren lassen""

REFLATION

Reflective

""REFLECTIVE Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror. as, a reflective mirror.""

Refractive

""REFRACTIVE Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a direct course; pertaining to refraction; as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers. as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers.""

In a refractory manner; perversely; obstinately.

Refreshing

Regardless

Regenerate

In a regressive manner.

REGRESSIVE Passing back; returning.

Relational

In an unceasingly intense way

Bank to hold fast to smaller amount without mercy

Inexorably

Remorseful

MOVABILITY Movableness.

Remunerative.

The quality or state of being renewable.

""Pertaining to renunciation; containing or declaring a renunciation; as, renunciatory vows. as, renunciatory vows.""

Repetitive

Repressive

REPRODUCE To produce again.

Having a good reputation; honorable.

Resistless

Resounding

With due honors

Particularly clever type is wrong

Individually in the order given

Individually and in the order mentioned

SPIROMETRY The act or process of measuring the chest capacity by means of a spirometer.

The quality or state of being resplendent; brilliant luster; vivid brightness; splendor.

Responsive

With restraint.

Restricted

Reticulate

TRACTILITY The quality of being tractile; ductility.

Retrograde

Revengeful

""Of or pertaining to a reversion; involving a reversion; to be enjoyed in succession, or after the termination of a particular estate; as, a reversionary interest or right. as, a reversionary interest or right.""

Rhetorical

Toe ma roughly bashed? Medical specialist may know all about it

To the beat

Ridiculous

Robustious

Roisterous

How an engaged couple might speak to each other

Ruminative

""SACCHARINE Of or pertaining to sugar; having the qualities of sugar; producing sugar; sweet; as, a saccharine taste; saccharine matter. as, a saccharine taste; saccharine matter.""

In a sacerdotal manner.

Salubrious

""A tube of vitrified sand, produced by a stroke of lightning; a fulgurite""

Sardonical

End of the week: is plant OK (wordplay)

Stray cat? If so, stray's OK!

Good or bad, sits a plant

Scarifying

In a scattering manner; dispersedly.

A device for producing a scintigram; a scintiscanner.

In a scriptural manner.

The quality or state of being scruppulous; doubt; doubtfulness respecting decision or action; caution or tenderness from the far of doing wrong or ofending; nice regard to exactness and propierty; precision.