12-Letter Words Starting with S

Adjective for auto safety glass (7,5)

Designed not to break into pieces

Like some safety glass

One gathering wool

He cuts inside the fold

Fleece cutter

Shellacking

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Shinplaster

Cheated (by cashier?)

Done - with spirit transformed!

Didn't get full return for your money

SHORTCHANGE

Does alteration in pants

Showmanship

Shrievalty

How to get broad (wordplay)

Prepare to deal and get on with the game

Cruise-ship pastime

Creating distraction, wrongly directs a monarch

Importance; meaning

Importance, meaning

Notice I intended to limit chapter's importance

The quality or state of being significant.

Sillimanite

Parallels with IRA missile, it is broadcast

Resemblances is up to militaries on manoeuvres

It's much the same for one getting draws from matches

Simoniacal

Simplicial

Simulcast

The quality or state of being simultaneous; simultaneousness.

Happening at the same time

Done at the same time

Occurring at same time

Sinfonietta

SINGULARIZE To make singular or single; to distinguish.

Singularize

Sinusoidal

A berserk toad (anagram)

Someone on a short plank with wheels

Ray the lodger's a sportsman

In a defamatory way

Slanginess

""Slaphappier , slaphappiest Slang Dazed, silly, or incoherent from or as if from blows to the head; punch-drunk.""

SLAUGHTERER One who slaughters.

Slaughter

Destructive; murderous.

Slaveholder

Holding persons in slavery.

Slavocracy

Sleaziness

Unsuitable nutcracker (wordplay)

R&B/rap duo Percy & MC (wordplay)

Big hitter trimmed hedge in prison

Noctambulous types

They go out for a stroll at night with dozy types just out of bed

Somnambulance

Somnambulation.

Somnambulism

Slipstream

Sloganeer

SLUGGARD a habitually lazy person

(Economics) a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation [blend of slump + inflation ]

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

Bork bork borks, to the Swedish Chef

Scandinavian buffets

English word

Broken or projecting gnasher

Snappiness

SNAPPISH tending to behave in an impatient or irritable manner

Snapshooter

Snapshot

Sneakiness

Sportsmen currently accommodated between son and lodgers

Popular form of controlled sliding

Olympic event

Son currently joining coach, say, for winter sport

The quality of being sociable.

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

Sockdolager

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.

Earnest request

SOLIDARIST

Solidarity

Isolation (of a hermit?)

Solmization

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 .

Flipped

Sleep

To walk when <?/sleep.

Sleepwalking

Not a consciously progressive type

One who is out and about

Peripatetic sleeper

Tending to produce sleep; hypnotic.

Sonography

Soothsaying

An experienced and knowledgeable person

Who's disported at posh cities (wordplay)

Worldly-wise type making epic that is so disorganised

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.""

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

Types of shows.

Of or pertaining to a spectator.

Spectrogram

An apparatus for photographing or mapping a spectrum.

Speculation

Speedball

Speedboat

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 .""

Spessartine

Spessartite

Spheroidal

Spheroplast

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

Spiculation

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

Splashboard

Pl. splenomegalies Enlargement of the spleen.

In a sporadic manner.

Schenkel, for one

Masters consultant, say

One who knows the score

Sporulation

English word

Make the beds (wordplay)

Gymnast's platforms

Springwater

Squareness

SQUARISH somewhat square

Squirarchy

Stableness

Establishment.

Stadtholder

Travelling drama teachers (wordplay)

Carriers of strongboxes

Transport for drama teachers

Stagflation

Ryan Giggs let loose in striking fashion

Dog with German entering alone in amazing fashion

Abstract noun (-ity)

New Labour's vampire hunters (wordplay)

Interested parties assume hospital mends girdles

Stallholder

Sturdy valiance

""Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trottinghorse Breeders.""

STANDARDISE

Standardise

""STANDARDIZE To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.""

Standardize

STANDARD an established measure of comparison

Persons opposed to change

STANDPAT resisting or opposing change

Pl. stapedectomies Surgical removal of the stapes.

Staphylinid

Starboard

Startlement

Stationery

Numerical data analyst

One analysing data

One analysing numerical facts

In a statuesque manner; in a way suggestive of a statue; like a statue.

Steadiness

Ninja's speciality

Furtive behaviour

Steamfitter

Steaminess

They make pancakes (wordplay)

Vehicles used for compacting roads

Restore small model vehicles

Steamroll

Steatopygia

Having fat buttocks.

Steatorrhea

Steelmaking

Competition for pastors (wordplay)

High Church breaking contract for event

Race with jumps

Workers in high places.

High climbers.

Steerageway

Copier of a dictator's words

One versed in shorthand

Court employee

Shorthander's notes unusually explicit

It's related to what I've asked you to write, in short

STENOTHERM

Former union issue - awful pest, the guard found

Stepfamily

Stereograph

The art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane; a branch of solid geometry which shows the construction of all solids which are regularly defined.

""A method in neurosurgery and neurological research for locating points within the brain using an external, three-dimensional frame of reference usually based on the Cartesian coordinate system.""

""Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages. as, the sternocostal cartilages.""

A tennis tutor (anagram) - sneezing

Sternutator

Virgin women (wordplay)

Stewardship

Drama ()

Stickhandle

STICKHANDLE

Stickhandle

Small spiny fish

""A sterol, C 29 H 48 O, obtained from soybeans or Calabar beans.""