12-Letter Words Starting with S

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""-fies , -fying , -fied (Chemistry) (tr) to convert (starch) into sugar saccharification  , saccharization , saccharisation n""

Saccharify

""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.""

""Resembling sugar, as in taste, appearance, consistency, or composition; as, saccharoidal limestone.as, saccharoidal limestone.""

Sacculation

In a sacerdotal manner.

Sacramental

Sacredness

Profaning holy things

Sinful, naughty girls use 'Ciao'

Profane

Saddlecloth

SADISTIC pertaining to a {sadist=n}

Harmless snack for burglars (wordplay)

Harmless snack for burglars?

Withdrawal specialists (wordplay)

Succumbing to pressure after secure, criminal occupation

Protecting

Safekeeping

Sea action in which Garibaldi and son may be involved

Sailboating

Salability

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a salamander; enduring fire.""

Spanish males engaged in art of commerce

Selling sand to Arabs for brewer perhaps in foreign police force is all the rage

The trick to selling small drinks to Joe from dispatch

Salesperson

""SALINIZE to treat with salt, also SALINISE""

Salinometer

Sallowness

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any solanaceous plant of the Chilean genus Salpiglossis, some species of which are cultivated for their bright funnel-shaped flowers [New Latin, from Greek salpinx trumpet + glōssa tongue]""

Saltimbocca

Salubrious

Effecting or designed to effect an improvement; remedial: salutary advice.

""SALUTATION The act of saluting, or paying respect or reverence, by the customary words or actions; the act of greeting, or expressing good will or courtesy; also, that which is uttered or done in saluting or greeting.""

""The student who pronounces the salutatory oration at the annual Commencement or like exercises of a college, an honor commonly assigned to that member of the graduating class who ranks second in scholarship.""

Salutatory

""Bringing health; healthy; salutary; beneficial; as, salutiferous air. as, salutiferous air.""

""SALVATION The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.""

Army officer, like 10's major

Sanctimony

SANCTION to authorize

Graffiti removers

Process for cleaning or engraving

Pueblo Indian art

Native American art

Making smooth

Sanguinaria

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

Tin containing a beer full of energy and cheer

Of sound mind, ultimately buffered by stout optimism

Sanguinity

""SANITIZE to clean and sterilize, also SANITISE, SANITATE""

Sansculotte

""Pertaining to, or involving, sansculottism; radical; revolutionary; Jacobinical.""

Sansevieria

""Capable of conversion into soap; as, a saponifiable substance. as, a saponifiable substance.""

Feeding on carrion.

Disease and Illness

Formation of numerous sarcomas in various parts of the body.

SARCOPLASM

Sardonical

Sardonicism

Non-alcoholic drink

Drink prepared from roots

Nonalcoholic root drink

I can't get no - (Rolling Stones)

The Stones couldn't get it

Fulfillment ... and #2 on the list

End of the week: is plant OK (wordplay)

Stray cat? If so, stray's OK!

Good or bad, sits a plant

So as to satisfy; satisfactorily.

Sauerbraten

Saurischian

Savageness

Savoriness

Blowhards (wordplay)

Musicians

The quality of being scabrous.

Scaffolding

SCANDALISE

""SCANDALIZE To offend the feelings of the conscience of (a person) by some action which is considered immoral or criminal; to bring shame, disgrace, or reproach upon.""

In a manner to give offense; shamefully.

Scantiness

Scapegoat

""SCAPEGOAT A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness.""

Scarabaeus

Scaramouche

Scarceness

People who cause fear or fright

Alarmists seeing Germans score in a frenzy

Scarifying

Preoccupied with excrement

Noun (-tion)

Person incapable of concentration

Person unable to think clearly

One who cannot concentrate

Scattergood

Scattergram

In a scattering manner; dispersedly.

""The art of representing objects in perspective, especially as applied in the design and painting of theatrical scenery.""

""Of, relating to, or characteristic of scenography: "Contemporary design has a strongly scenographic appeal, as if modern rooms were meant to be stage sets" (Los Angeles Times).""

SCHEMATIZE To form a scheme or schemes.

Same as Schismatic. Schismatic.

SCHISMATIZE To make part in schism; to make a breach of communion in the church.

Schismatize

SCHISTOSOME

Shmaltzy

Student awards

The classroom (anagram)

Teacher of fish (wordplay)

Instructor at Eton, say

Schwarmerei

A device for producing a scintigram; a scintiscanner.

Scintillate

Scintillate

""SCINTILLATE To emit sparks, or fine igneous particles.""

Central American flycatchers

""Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic. Sclerotic.""

Scleroderma

Scolopendra

Scopolamine

Men in charge of troops

Men in charge of troops

A drawing board coated with white clay and a surface layer of black ink that is scratched or scraped away to produce an effect similar to engraving. Also called scraperboard .

Quality like that of a worn gramophone record

One who carves scrimshaw.

Scrimshaw

In a scriptural manner.

Sculptural

""Pl. scyphistomae (-m ) or scyphistomas A larva of a scyphozoan, consisting of an elongated and deeply constricted polyp that successively splits off minute, free-swimming medusas.""

Scyphistoma

SEAMLESS without a seam

Seamstress

Sweeping beams

The rich glass contrived for high-powered lamps

""A white odorless barbiturate, C 12 H 18 N 2 O 3 , used in the form of its sodium salt as a sedative and hypnotic.""

A hormone or another agent that causes or stimulates secretion.

Secretariat

""SECRETION The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods. as, the secretion of dutiable goods.""

Adherence to religious groupings

To imbue with sectarian feelings; to subject to the control of a sect.

""A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.""

SECULARISE

""SECULARIST One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts and influences which are derived from the present life; also, one who believes that education and other matters of civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a religious element.""

Secularity

Secularizer

""SECULARIZE To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk. as, to secularize a priest or a monk.""

Sedateness

SEDIMENT to settle in the bottom of a liquid

Division into parts

Segregation

Seigniorage

They record earth-shaking events

""A writing about, or a description of, earthquakes.""

Selaginella

SELFSAME identical

Semantical

Semanticist

ABSTRACT to draw away

Every half year.

ARBOREAL tree-dwelling

Junk mail a trucker might get (wordplay)

Form of estate agent's brochure (wordplay)

Advertising flier at a truck stop (wordplay)

Semiclassic

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

Dusky state

(Of houses) joined in pairs

Decide Thames could do for a house

Type of house

""Half of a diameter; a right line, or the length of a right line, drawn from the center of a circle, a sphere, or other curved figure, to its circumference or periphery; a radius.""

DOMINANT a controlling genetic character

One who's moved closer to a win

One in last four of a contest

One of last four left in competition

Fruits (spelled backward) + Repeat = (wordplay)

Elite stream inappropriate - one is coming in barely able to read and write

Of or pertaining to a semimetal; possessing metallic properties in an inferior degree; resembling metal.

MONASTIC a {monk=n}

MYSTICAL spiritually significant

""Half official; having some official authority or importance; as, a semiofficial statement. as, a semiofficial statement.""

""Same as Semeiography, Semeiology, Semeiological.Semeiography, Semeiology, Semeiological.""

Semiotician

""Having the anterior toes joined only part way down with a web; half-webbed; as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.""

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Items attached to highway tractors

Warm, as a climate

Senatorship

Sensual.

Sensuality

""SENSUALIZE To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure. as, sensualized by pleasure.""

Quality of being separable or divisible; divisibility; separableness.

SEPARATE to keep apart

Of or pertaining to separatists; characterizing separatists; schismatical.

Once in seven years.

Sepulchral

Sequacious

One after the other

In succession, it's Queen badly needing friend

SEQUESTRATE To sequester.

Sequestrate

Real, physical? Different, in the style of an angel

SERICULTURE The raising of silkworms.

SERIGRAPHER serigraph

Serigraphy

(In blood test) showing no virus present

Servanthood

Female minister? She's a fighter

Female in the forces

Wasp

""Capable of being severed or separated; separable into legally distinct rights or obligations, as a contract.""

Sewability

Person in seventh decade

Person in their sixties

Arrived between 1943-1952 for one from the sixties

Sexagesimal

SEXTUPLE to make six times as great

Shabbiness

Shacklebone

How Hank Marvin etc warmed up (wordplay)

Sparring with oneself (wordplay)

Sparring with an imaginary opponent

Shadowgraph

SHADOWGRAPH

Shagginess

Shamefaced

SHAMEFUL disgraceful

Abstract noun (-ity)

SHARECROP

Small-time farmer (2 words)

Type of tenant farmer in the USA

Landworker's allotment failure

Old ploughmen as investors in company (wordplay)

Marksman pointed gun (wordplay)

Annie Oakley, for one

Sniper, e.g

Shattering