12-Letter Words Starting with S

Baseball E-stats study

Sea action in which Garibaldi and son may be involved

Sailboating

Salability

Saltimbocca

Salubrious

SANCTION to authorize

Graffiti removers

Process for cleaning or engraving

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

Sauerbraten

The quality of being scabrous.

Scarabaeus

Person incapable of concentration

Person unable to think clearly

One who cannot concentrate

""SCHOOLBOY A boy belonging to, or attending, a school.""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

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 .

Scuttlebutt

""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.""

SEDIMENT to settle in the bottom of a liquid

ABSTRACT to draw away

ARBOREAL tree-dwelling

FLEXIBLE able to be bent

The quality or state of being sensible; sensibility; appreciation; capacity of perception; susceptibility.

Quality of being separable or divisible; divisibility; separableness.

The shadbush or one of its fruit.

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

Sewability

Shabbiness

Shacklebone

How Hank Marvin etc warmed up (wordplay)

Sparring with oneself (wordplay)

Sparring with an imaginary opponent

Abstract noun (-ity)

Sheepberry

Shelterbelt

Vital war workers

Despatch something from site to Noah's family

They make models of Jeanie Johnston perhaps for Harland and Wolff

Type of construction at, eg, Govan, Barrow

How to get broad (wordplay)

Prepare to deal and get on with the game

Cruise-ship pastime

A berserk toad (anagram)

Someone on a short plank with wheels

Ray the lodger's a sportsman

Bork bork borks, to the Swedish Chef

Scandinavian buffets

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

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

SOLUBILISE

Solubility

SOLUBILIZE

Somberness

Sleep

To walk when <?/sleep.

Sleepwalking

Not a consciously progressive type

One who is out and about

Peripatetic sleeper

Speedball

Speedboat

Powerful speakers

Sure to fascinate

Fascinating session covering books

Holding one's interest

Splashboard

Gymnast's platforms

Stableness

Establishment.

Abstract noun (-ity)

""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.""

Starboard

Herbert's post about marital relations

Small spiny fish

Stilbestrol

The breeding and raising of livestock.

City traders

Revised cost to king's agents. those dealing in securities

Standard royalty brother divides, managing shares, say

Stockjobber

The act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber.

Storyboard

Strabismus

STRAIGHT to make {straight=adj}

Wimbledon favourite (wordplay)

Sweet, fleshy red fruit

Brewer's art is transforming fruit

Stringybark

""The act or phenomenon of spontaneously dividing transversely, as do certain species of annelids and helminths; transverse fission. See Illust. under Syllidian. Illust. under Syllidian.""

Stroboscope

STROBOSCOPE An instrument for studying or observing the successive phases of a periodic or varying motion by means of light which is periodically interrupted.

STUBBORN to be unyielding

""ANTARCTIC Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23&deg; 28&min;. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc. antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.""

ARACHNOID Resembling a spider's web; cobweblike.

Subaudition

Subbasement

Subcentral

Group reporting to a larger one

Group responsible for water-based craft has a job answering to others

Underground organisation possibly returns transport to council

Hyman Rickover's alma mater (wordplay)

""COMPONENT Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.""

Hidden part of the mind

Of the deeper part of the mind

Layer of the mind

Man on bench goes to Europe from India perhaps

Mounting bus, happy to be getting around in India (wordplay)

One of those on the bench approaches America for the Indians

Public transportation is overturned, gets smaller and delegates work

CULTURING culture

Plural or third person singular

Under the skin

Just under the skin

Terribly cute, on a bus, American gets under skin

DEBUTANTE

Subdecision

Subdirector

Subdistrict

DIVIDABLE Capable of being divided; divisible.

Land parcels.

Subdominant

Subeconomy

""EDITORIAL Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks. as, editorial labors; editorial remarks.""

Situated immediately below the epidermis.

""Conversion of the cell walls into cork tissue by development of suberin; -- commonly taking place in exposed tissues, as when a callus forms over a wound. Suberized cell walls are impervious to water.""

Subglacial

SUBINFEUD

Subinterval

IRRIGATED irrigate

Subirrigate

Subjacency

Subjective

SUBJECTIVE Of or pertaining to a subject.

""Any philosophical doctrine which refers all knowledge to, and founds it upon, any subjective states; egoism.""

One who holds to subjectivism; an egoist.

The quality or state of being subjective; character of the subject.

SUBJECTIVE Of or pertaining to a subject.

Subjugation

Subjunction

In a manner of speaking, moods imagined or wished

Sublanguage

An under or assistant librarian.

LICENSING license

Sublimation

Subliminal

Sublittoral

Subluxation

Of the lower jaw.

Submergence

Submersible

MICROGRAM

Of greatly reduced size

Subminister

Submissive

Submultiple

Submunition

NORMALITY Conformity with the norm; the state of being normal; the normal condition.

OPTIMIZED optimize

Suboptimize

ORBICULAR Resembling or having the form of an orb; spherical; circular; orbiculate.

ORDINATED ordinate

They could be under boss at head of institution

""SUBORDINATE Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.""

Subornation

""PARAGRAPH Originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e. g., a change of subject; now, the character g., a change of subject; now, the character <?/, commonly used in the text as a reference mark to a footnote, or to indicate the place of a division into sections.""

Subpotency

""PRINCIPAL Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case. as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case.""

Subprocess

Subrogation

""SATELLITE An attendant attached to a prince or other powerful person; hence, an obsequious dependent.""

SATURATED saturate

Regular payment

Membership fee

Copy-editor number one upset by writing fee

""SECRETARY One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets.""

Subsentence

Subsequence

Later on

Afterwards

Consequently, transport returned in an orderly fashion

Subordinate in capacity or function.

""The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility.""

Companies controlled by a parent one

In a subsidiary manner; so as to assist.

""1. (Christianity / Roman Catholic Church) (in the Roman Catholic Church) a principle of social doctrine that all social bodies exist for the sake of the individual so that what individuals are able to do, society should not take over, and what small societies can do, larger societies should not take over""

Subsistence

Subsociety

Inflected form of SONICALLY Inflected form of SONIC pertaining to sound

SPECIALTY Particularity.

Essential parts.

Prove truth of (charge)

Prove to be true

Prove the truth of

Of or pertaining to a substantive; of the nature of substantive.

Substantive

Substituent

""SUBSTITUTE One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else""

Replacement of one thing by another

Replacement

Tending to afford or furnish a substitute; making substitution; capable of being substituted.

Underlying framework

Subsumption

""TEMPERATE Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate. as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.""

Subtenancy

Of the nether world.

Train near Eastburn for The Underground

Underground; secret

""THRESHOLD The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door.""

Subtleness

Subtotal

Deductions for bus con artist crashed

Subumbrella

URBANISED urbanise

Suburbanise

Suburbanite

URBANIZED urbanize

Suburbanize

Subvariety

Subversive

VOCALIZED vocalize

Subvocalize

Sugarberry

Sue's sin misconstrued around table - how fitting is that (wordplay)

""SUMMARIZE To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly.""

Superabound