12-Letter Words Starting with S

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

Tending to produce sleep; hypnotic.

An experienced and knowledgeable person

Who's disported at posh cities (wordplay)

Worldly-wise type making epic that is so disorganised

Spaceflight

SPACEWALKER spacewalk

Going outside an orbiting craft

SPACIOUS ample in extent

Spasmolytic

Spasticity

Spatterdock

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

""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.

Sphericity

Spiculation

Spirochaete

In a sporadic manner.

Schenkel, for one

Masters consultant, say

One who knows the score

English word

Spruceness

Squirarchy

Travelling drama teachers (wordplay)

Carriers of strongboxes

Transport for drama teachers

Pl. stapedectomies Surgical removal of the stapes.

Numerical data analyst

One analysing data

One analysing numerical facts

Competition for pastors (wordplay)

High Church breaking contract for event

Race with jumps

Workers in high places.

High climbers.

Shorthander's notes unusually explicit

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

Issue to be brought up on remarriage

Combining separate sources of sound

(Of sound) multi-channel

With five kicked out, criminal evicts no-hoper from two places

""An instrument, consisting essentially of a magic lantern in which photographic pictures are used, by which the image of a landscape, or any object, may be thrown upon a screen in such a manner as to seem to stand out in relief, so as to form a striking and accurate representation of the object itself; also, a pair of magic lanterns for producing the effect of dissolving views.""

3-D picture devices.

They provide outstanding images

Giving the impression of depth

Describing a three-dimensional effect.

""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.""

Stethoscope

""STETHOSCOPE An instrument used in auscultation for examining the organs of the chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax.""

Drama ()

Drama ()

Stickhandle

STICKHANDLE

Stickhandle

Stickiness

Small spiny fish

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

Barns and corrals (wordplay)

Annual meeting attendees

Merchandise owners on top of warehouses

Stockiness

Stockinette

Stockjobber

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

Stockkeeper

Stocktaking

Tolerate some pain (wordplay)

Reasons for sick days

Results of overeating

Sharon's tools (wordplay)

Hewing or dressing stone.

A case for arms limitation (wordplay)

Something that restricts.

No sane person is likely to assume it

Pl. stratocumuli (-l ) A low-lying cloud formation occurring in extensive horizontal layers with rounded summits.

Streetscape

Pathogenic bacteria

Bacteria that can cause scarlet fever, pneumonia etc.

""Pl. streptomyces Any of various actinomycetes of the genus Streptomyces, including several strains that produce antibiotics.""

New "wonder drug" from fungi

One of the "wonder" drugs.

Strictness

""A horizontal band in a building, forming a part of the design, whether molded, projecting, or carved, or in any way distinguished from the rest of the work.""

Stringency

Stringpiece

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.

Structural

Total astonishment and shock

Shocked astonishment

Extreme astonishment

""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° 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.

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

Subdecision

Subdirector

Subdistrict

Subeconomy

Subglacial

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.

Subjunction

In a manner of speaking, moods imagined or wished

LICENSING license

Submergence

MICROGRAM

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

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

Regular payment

Membership fee

Copy-editor number one upset by writing fee

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

Subsentence

Subsequence

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.""

Subsistence

Subsociety

Inflected form of SONICALLY Inflected form of SONIC pertaining to sound

SPECIALTY Particularity.

Underlying framework

Subtenancy

Deductions for bus con artist crashed

VOCALIZED vocalize

Subvocalize

""Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another.""

Succedaneum

Successful

Of or pertaining to a succession; existing in a regular order; consecutive.

So as to follow one another

SUCCINCT clearly expressed in a few words

Enough clues in fifty puzzles (wordplay)

Tiny scuffle involved restraining one adequately

Adequately

Suffocation

Making sweet love in windy act, ruing gas

Sunscreen

Superbitch

English word

Do they look after Masefield's work (wordplay)

Officers afloat, overseeing result of Ferrari's fix (wordplay)

SUPERCAR a superior car

Supercenter

Very quick, huge car sped round corner, finally

Feature of many a dragster (NFL)

Power booster on '98 Buick Regal 3.8 V6

Mall goer, to the extreme

Supercharge

Of or pertaining to the eyebrows; supraorbital.

Contemptuously superior

101 left in outstanding debts, being arrogant

Condescending

Superclass

A group of neighboring clusters of galaxies.

Supercoil

To offer no resistance is good behaviour

Demonstrate zero electrical resistance

Supercool

An electrical current flowing through a superconductor.

""Pl. superhelixes or superhelices (h l -s z , h l -) A molecular structure in which a helix is itself coiled into a helix, as of overwound circular DNA.""

""Pl. superhelixes or superhelices (h l -s z , h l -) A molecular structure in which a helix is itself coiled into a helix, as of overwound circular DNA.""

""SUPERINDUCE To bring in, or upon, as an addition to something.""

Superinduce

Superinfect

(Sociology) Sociol (no longer widely used) relating to those aspects of a culture that are conceived as being superior to the individual members of the society superorganicism   n

""(Engineering / General Engineering) such a metal, alloy, etc. superplasticity  ""

Superschool

""SUPERSCRIBE To write or engrave (a name, address, inscription, or the like) on the top or surface; to write a name, address, or the like, on the outside or cover of (anything); as, to superscribe a letter. as, to superscribe a letter.""

Superscribe

Marvellous things to read from elevated characters

English word

Plural noun or verb form

Adjective (-al)

Supplicat

""The act of supplicating; humble and earnest prayer, as in worship.""

Containing supplication; humble; earnest.

Supremacist

Like Magritte, say

Like the art of Dali or Magritte

Bizarre pragmatist in endless cruise at sea

All eyes perhaps insure evil clan mutate

Watch kept on potential nuclear evils (wordplay)

Covert observation

Capacity for receiving; susceptibility.

Suspicion

Suspicious

SWASHBUCKLE

Errol Flynn kind of role

Dare-devil takes second to clean shield

One given to derring-do

Swashbuckle

Switchback

Switchblade

The operator used them to rotate stage

Small and enchanting woman has meals for centres of communication

Move to another directorship where you can make connections

Sycophancy

Like a sycophant; obsequiously flattering.

Sycophancy.

In a syllabic manner.

SYLLABICATE To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.

Syllabicate

The cultivation of forest trees for timber or other purposes; forestry; arboriculture.

Symbolical