12-Letter Words Starting with S

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

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

In a sacerdotal manner.

Sacredness

Saddlecloth

SADISTIC pertaining to a {sadist=n}

Protecting

Sea action in which Garibaldi and son may be involved

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

Graffiti removers

Process for cleaning or engraving

Pueblo Indian art

Native American art

Making smooth

Sardonical

Sardonicism

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.

Scattergood

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

Scintillate

Scleroderma

Scolopendra

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 .

Drinks for assembly workers (wordplay)

Vodka drinks

Sounds like Philip's orange juice and vodka drinks

One who carves scrimshaw.

SECLUDED seclude

Sedateness

SEDIMENT to settle in the bottom of a liquid

Femmes fatales

SEDULOUS {diligent=adj}

Dusky state

Semideify

(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

FINISHED finish

Seminudity

""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.""

Senectitude

SEQUESTRATE To sequester.

Servanthood

The cardinal number equal to 10 51 .

Sextodecimo

How Hank Marvin etc warmed up (wordplay)

Sparring with oneself (wordplay)

Sparring with an imaginary opponent

Shadowgraph

SHADOWGRAPH

Shamefaced

SHARECROP

Old ploughmen as investors in company (wordplay)

Cattlemen's adversaries.

Workers in Ireland's pastures

""A person who herds sheep, especially on an open range; a shepherd.""

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

Shirtdress

SHIRTSLEEVE

Shittimwood

Shoddiness

Cheated (by cashier?)

Done - with spirit transformed!

Didn't get full return for your money

Heedless of the future.

Like the grasshopper of fable

Limited in one's outlook

Shrewdness

How to get broad (wordplay)

Prepare to deal and get on with the game

Cruise-ship pastime

Sideslip

Sidestepper

Evading, in a way

Desist moving forest as evasive action

Avoidance behaviour that is seen in South Essex town

Creating distraction, wrongly directs a monarch

A herb no longer tended? That's foolish

Type of interest objected to, being foolish

SINGULARIZE To make singular or single; to distinguish.

Sinusoidal

A berserk toad (anagram)

Someone on a short plank with wheels

Ray the lodger's a sportsman

SKELETONISE

""SKELETONIZE To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton.""

Underhand behaviour (mainly US)

Underhand trickery

In a defamatory way

Slaveholder

Holding persons in slavery.

Unsuitable nutcracker (wordplay)

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

Big hitter trimmed hedge in prison

Dieter's aim.

English dogs with a keen sense of smell

""The smooth, striated, or partially polished surfaces of a fissure or seam, supposed to have been produced by the sliding of one surface on another.""

Slipstream

SLUGGARD a habitually lazy person

Landowners in arrangement to sell lord hams

Mini-farm, perhaps

Modest farming concern

Agricultural area, but less than a farm

Bork bork borks, to the Swedish Chef

Scandinavian buffets

Smudginess

Sportsmen currently accommodated between son and lodgers

Popular form of controlled sliding

Olympic event

Son currently joining coach, say, for winter sport

Sockdolager

Sockdologer

Soddenness

Softheaded

Soldiership

SOLIDARIST

Solidarity

SOLILOQUISE

SOLILOQUIZE To utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.

Somatomedin

Flipped

Sordidness

Soundproof

A shrub for the huntress

SPARKPLUG

Spatterdock

Leading (attack)

Taking the lead

Praised Hagen extravagantly for leading attack

Speedball

Speedboat

Speediness

Vehicle-velocity indicators

Often-ignored dash displays

Indicators of velocity

Powerful speakers

Sure to fascinate

Fascinating session covering books

Holding one's interest

They have no saving graces

""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.""

Spheroidal

Being single could make person do this

SPIRITED spirit

Splashboard

The quality of being splendid.

In a sporadic manner.

Make the beds (wordplay)

Gymnast's platforms

Stadtholder

New Labour's vampire hunters (wordplay)

Interested parties assume hospital mends girdles

Stallholder

""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

Steadiness

Issue to be brought up on remarriage

Former union issue - awful pest, the guard found

Plural or third person singular

Virgin women (wordplay)

Stewardship

Stickhandle

STICKHANDLE

Stickhandle

The breeding and raising of livestock.

Barns and corrals (wordplay)

Annual meeting attendees

Merchandise owners on top of warehouses

Stodginess

Plural or third person singular

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}

Hand tool used to draw lines (2 words)

Line-drawing tool

Tool for drawing a perfect line

Put in order

Way of presenting gender that is not kinky

STRANDED strand

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.""

Made more robust

Reinforced

""STRIDULATE To make a shrill, creaking noise""

The act of stridulating.

Stridulous; able to stridulate; used in stridulating; adapted for stridulation.

Stridulous

Stringhalt

Studentship

STUDIOUS given to study

In a marvelous way

Stupidness

Sturdiness

ARACHNOID Resembling a spider's web; cobweblike.

Subaudition

DEBUTANTE

Subdecision

Subdirector

Subdistrict

DIVIDABLE Capable of being divided; divisible.

Land parcels.

Subdominant

""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.

SUBINFEUD

IRRIGATED irrigate

OPTIMIZED optimize

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.""

SATURATED saturate

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""

""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.""

URBANISED urbanise

URBANIZED urbanize

VOCALIZED vocalize

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

Succedaneum

Suddenness

""Producing, or secreting, sweat; sudoriparous.""

""A sulfa drug, C 10 H 10 N 4 O 2 S, used in the treatment of toxoplasmosis and other infections.""

Sulfonamide