12-Letter Words Starting with S

A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches. Breeches.

Landowners in arrangement to sell lord hams

Mini-farm, perhaps

Modest farming concern

Agricultural area, but less than a farm

Smarminess

Smithsonite

Smoothness

Bork bork borks, to the Swedish Chef

Scandinavian buffets

Smudginess

Smuttiness

English word

Broken or projecting gnasher

Snappiness

SNAPPISH tending to behave in an impatient or irritable manner

Snapshooter

Snapshot

Sneakiness

Snickersnee

Sniffiness

SNIFFISH {haughty=adj}

Sniperscope

Vulgar affectation or ostentation; mean admiration of mean things; conduct or manners of a snob.

""Slang One, especially a politician, who is guided by personal advantage rather than by consistent, respectable principles.""

Snootiness

Snottiness

Sportsmen currently accommodated between son and lodgers

Popular form of controlled sliding

Olympic event

Son currently joining coach, say, for winter sport

Snowmobiler

SNOWMOBILE

SNOWMOBILE

Snubbiness

The quality of being sociable.

Boy is loco and I go off, which assumes adaptive behaviour

Sociologese

""Of or pertaining to sociology, or social science.""

Sociologist

Sociometry

Sockdolager

Sockdologer

Soddenness

Softheaded

Injury of a photographic picture caused by exposing it for too long a time to the sun's light in the camera; burning; excessive insolation.

Soldiership

Solemnify

Solemnness

Earnest request

Solicitous

SOLIDARIST

Solidarity

""The slow, downhill movement of soil or other material in areas typically underlain by frozen ground.""

SOLILOQUISE

Soliloquise

Soliloquist

SOLILOQUIZE To utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.

SOLILOQUIZE To utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.

Does a stage routine.

Isolation (of a hermit?)

Solmization

SOLUBILISE

Solubility

SOLUBILIZE

Somatology

Somatomedin

""The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamell\'91 into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchopleure. Splanchopleure.""

""A polypeptide hormone produced chiefly by the hypothalamus that inhibits the secretion of various other hormones, such as somatotropin, glucagon, insulin, thyrotropin, and gastrin.""

See growth hormone .

Somberness

Flipped

Somerset

Sleep

To walk when <?/sleep.

Sleepwalking

Not a consciously progressive type

One who is out and about

Peripatetic sleeper

Tending to produce sleep; hypnotic.

Prima donnas perhaps from Grammar School restrained by child locks

Songwriting

Boy to secure sort of genre I recognized as producing short poems

Child to secure sort of genre I recognized as producing short poems

Sonography

SONOROUS characterized by a full and loud sound

SOOTHING the act of soothing

Soothsaying

An experienced and knowledgeable person

Who's disported at posh cities (wordplay)

Worldly-wise type making epic that is so disorganised

Causing sleep; somniferous; soporific.

Sordidness

SOULLESS without a soul

Soundproof

Kent is in this part of UK

In the bottom right corner of the country

""SOUTHEASTER A storm, strong wind, or gale coming from the southeast.""

Farthest south.

SOUTHERN a person living in the south

A shrub for the huntress

Call for silence around exit to cowboy film set in Kerry direction

""SOUTHWESTER A storm, gale, or strong wind from the southwest.""

Spaceflight

SPACEWALKER spacewalk

Going outside an orbiting craft

SPACIOUS ample in extent

Spaghettini

Spanakopita

Spanokopita

SPARKPLUG

Sparseness

Spasmolytic

Spasticity

Spatiality

Spatterdock

Audio equipment - keep on phrase (anagram)

Park sheep ruined linked to single communications facility

Speakership

Spearfish

Leading (attack)

Taking the lead

Praised Hagen extravagantly for leading attack

SPECIALISE

""SPECIALIST One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc. as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc.""

Speciality

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

SPECIATION

Precisely, clearly

Distinctly

Precisely

Speciosity

""SPECIOUS plausible, but inaccurate""

Types of shows.

Of or pertaining to a spectator.

Spectrogram

An apparatus for photographing or mapping a spectrum.

Apparatus measuring wavelengths

Scientific instrument

Instrument for measuring refractive indices

The measurement of light's properties

Scientific device for splitting light

Optical instrument.

Instrument for observing light of different wavelengths

The use of the spectroscope; investigations made with the spectroscope.

Speculation

The act of making a speech or speeches.

Speechless

Politician's alter ego (wordplay)

William Safire, once

Speedball

Speedboat

Speediness

Vehicle-velocity indicators

Often-ignored dash displays

Indicators of velocity

Speleology

Potholer - I'll goose-step (anagram)

Footballer in alone, meaning he plumbs the depths

Pigs let loose (anagram) - one who studies caves

Powerful speakers

Sure to fascinate

Fascinating session covering books

Holding one's interest

They have no saving graces

Pl. spermagonia also spermogonia (-n - ) A cup-shaped cavity or receptacle in which the spermatia of certain lichens and fungi are produced.

""Pl. -cae (-s ) A receptacle in the reproductive tracts of certain female invertebrates, especially insects, in which spermatozoa are received and stored until needed to fertilize the ova.""

Same as Spermoblast. Spermoblast.

SPERMATOZOA

""Pl. spermatozoa (-z ) The mature fertilizing gamete of a male organism, usually consisting of a round or cylindrical nucleated cell, a short neck, and a thin motile tail. Also called sperm cell , zoosperm .""

""The male germ cell in animals and plants, the essential element in fertilization; a microscopic animalculelike particle, usually provided with one or more cilia by which it is capable of active motion. In animals, the familiar type is that of a small, more or less ovoid head, with a delicate threadlike cilium, or tail. Called also spermatozo\'94n. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid. spermatozo\'94n. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid.""

""Pl. spermatozoa (-z ) The mature fertilizing gamete of a male organism, usually consisting of a round or cylindrical nucleated cell, a short neck, and a thin motile tail. Also called sperm cell , zoosperm .""

Spermophile

Spessartine

Spessartite

Sphericity

Spheroidal

Spherometer

Spheroplast

Sphingosine

""An instrument which, when applied over an artery, indicates graphically the movements or character of the pulse. See Sphygmogram. Sphygmogram.""

Spiculation

""An alloy of iron containing approximately 15 percent manganese and small quantities of carbon and silicon, used in the Bessemer process.""

Spiffiness

Spinnerette

Being single could make person do this

SPIRITED spirit

Spiritless

Brings The Dead to life for the latecomers who have something to say (wordplay)

Brings The Dead to life for the latecomers who have something to say

Hint to the Mystery Guest's identity

Medium habit is coming in double

Seance holder.

Religious sense

""To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul. as, to spiritualize soul.""

Spirochaete

Spirometry

Spiteful

Petty ill will

Splashboard

The quality of being splendid.

Pl. splenomegalies Enlargement of the spleen.

A spokesman or a spokeswoman. See Usage Note at man .

Bicycle mechanic (wordplay)

Front wheelwright (wordplay)

One speaking for others

Sponginess

Sponsorship

Spookiness

In a sporadic manner.

Plural or third person singular

Reproduction by spores.

The sport of catching fish using a rod and reel.

SPORTFUL {playful=adj}

Sportiness

SPORTIVE {playful=adj}

Schenkel, for one

Masters consultant, say

One who knows the score

Newspaper man.

Specialist reporter

One of those in the media talking about the club - the one reporting the fights

Sporulation

SPOTLESS {clean=adj}

Spotlight

Spottiness

English word

Make the beds (wordplay)

Sprightful

""Sprightlier , sprightliest Full of spirit and vitality; lively; brisk.""

Gymnast's platforms

Springhouse

Springwater

Spruceness

Spunkiness

SPURIOUS not genuine