12-Letter Words Starting with S

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

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

Scintillate

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 .

(Of houses) joined in pairs

Decide Thames could do for a house

Type of house

""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.""

SEQUESTRATE To sequester.

SHARECROP

Cheated (by cashier?)

Done - with spirit transformed!

Didn't get full return for your money

How to get broad (wordplay)

Prepare to deal and get on with the game

Cruise-ship pastime

SINGULARIZE To make singular or single; to distinguish.

Slipstream

Flipped

SPARKPLUG

""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.""

""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

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

Stickhandle

Unfeeling - like Olive (wordplay)

Devoid of feeling for others

Feeling callous? Then destroy a settlement

Storyboard

Upset due to threats, but resolute

Courageous, resolute

Courageous

STRAIGHT to make {straight=adj}

Put in order

Way of presenting gender that is not kinky

Hulk Hogan's choker (wordplay)

Force that menaces freedom.

Complete power over a situation

""Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia. as, a strangulated hernia.""

Stringhalt

ARACHNOID Resembling a spider's web; cobweblike.

IRRIGATED irrigate

ORDINATED ordinate

SATURATED saturate

URBANISED urbanise

URBANIZED urbanize

VOCALIZED vocalize

Very quick, huge car sped round corner, finally

SWASHBUCKLE

Switchback

SYLLABICATE To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.

SYSTEMATISE

""SYSTEMATIZE To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas.""