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

58 words fit this spine. They're all listed below. They start with T, end with Y, and contain A then S in that order in between — not necessarily side by side.

Near misses
  • table doesn't fit: it starts with T but ends with E, not Y.
  • tabby doesn't fit: it has the right ends but no S in the middle.

5-letter words

tansy, tasty

6-letter words

toasty, trashy

7-letter words

tastily

8-letter words

tanistry, tapestry, trashily, travesty, treasury

9-letter words

teasingly

10-letter words

tactlessly, tastefully, transiency, transitory

11-letter words

tastelessly, tenaciously, thanklessly, transiently, translatory, treasonably, tyrannously

12-letter words

tracheostomy, traitorously, transitively, transitivity, transitorily, translucency, transmogrify, transparency, transversely

13-letter words

tautologously, temerariously, thalassocracy, thrasonically, transcendency, translucently, transparently, treacherously

14-letter words

talismanically, transcendently, transitionally, transmigratory, transmissivity, transsexuality

15-letter words

transferability, translatability

16-letter words

thermoplasticity, transcendentally, transmissibility, transplacentally, transportability

17-letter words

transcriptionally, transdisciplinary, transplantability, transthoracically

18-letter words

tachistoscopically, transformationally

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