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Words starting with S, then I, then T, ending in Y

286 words fit this spine. The 240 most recognizable are listed below, longest and commonest first. They start with S, end with Y, and contain I then T in that order in between — not necessarily side by side.

Near misses
  • sabbath doesn't fit: it starts with S but ends with H, not Y.
  • sadly doesn't fit: it has the right ends but no I in the middle.
  • satisfy doesn't fit: it has every letter of SITY but they don't appear in order inside it.

5-letter words

silty, sixty

6-letter words

sanity, shifty, shirty, shitty, smithy, stithy

7-letter words

saintly, satiety, sightly, sixthly, society, squinty, suavity

8-letter words

sacristy, sagacity, salacity, salinity, sanctity, sanitary, sapidity, scarcity, security, sedulity, senility, serenity, serosity, severity, shiftily, silently, sisterly, sitology, skittery, slightly, slithery, smithery, snippety, sobriety, sodality, solidity, solitary, sonority, sorority, sparsity, straitly, strictly, subtilty, suitably

9-letter words

saliently, salubrity, sapiently, sectility, seniority, sequacity, seriately, servility, sexuality, signatory, sincerity, sinuosity, sociality, solemnity, sophistry, specialty, spinosity, splintery, sprightly, stability, sterility, stiltedly, stitchery, stolidity, stupidity, suability, sublimity

10-letter words

sagittally, salability, sanguinity, sanitarily, scurrility, secularity, seismicity, seminudity, sensuality, sensuosity, sentiently, sewability, shrievalty, sibilantly, similarity, simplicity, sinisterly, skittishly, societally, sociometry, solidarity, solitarily, solubility, spasticity, spatiality, speciality, speciosity, sphericity, spinsterly, spiritedly, spirometry, spitefully, straightly, stridently, subsociety, subvariety, succinctly

11-letter words

schistosity, seasonality, sedimentary, seditiously, seismometry, selectivity, semiaridity, semimonthly, semitonally, sensibility, sensitively, sensitivity, serendipity, shiftlessly, sightlessly, singularity, slightingly, sociability, solvability, sorbability, sovereignty, specificity, specularity, spiritually, spiritualty, spontaneity, squintingly, stichomythy, stimulatory, stipulatory, straightway, strenuosity, stringently, subindustry, subliteracy, subliterary, suitability, summability

12-letter words

saccharinity, sadistically, satisfactory, scintigraphy, scripturally, scrupulosity, sempiternity, sensitometry, separability, severability, shareability, simultaneity, solicitously, spiritlessly, spirituality, sprightfully, stainability, straightaway, stridulatory, subcommunity, subjectivity, subnormality, subsidiarity, subspecialty, sufficiently

13-letter words

sacrosanctity, saprogenicity, scintillantly, sedimentology, semisedentary, semitonically, sempiternally, sentimentally, significantly, sinterability, situationally, solderability, sophistically, spreadability, squeezability, statistically, stigmatically, stoichiometry, straitlacedly, stylistically, subinhibitory, subordinately, subserviently, synchronicity

14-letter words

salvageability, satisfactorily, schismatically, scientifically, sentimentality, seronegativity, seropositivity, serviceability, shortsightedly, simplistically, simultaneously, stretchability, substantiality, substitutively, suggestibility

15-letter words

semidocumentary, serendipitously, sesquicentenary, sidesplittingly, silviculturally, socialistically, socioculturally, solipsistically, sophisticatedly, stereochemistry, subreptitiously, substitutionary

16-letter words

semipermeability, spatiotemporally, stereoregularity, substitutability, substitutionally

17-letter words

semiautomatically, stereospecificity, straightforwardly

18-letter words

sedimentologically, semiconservatively, semiquantitatively, somnambulistically, stoichiometrically

Where this pattern came from