12-Letter Words Starting with S

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

Saccharify

In a sacerdotal manner.

Sacramental

Sacredness

Profaning holy things

Sinful, naughty girls use 'Ciao'

Profane

Saddlecloth

Harmless snack for burglars (wordplay)

Harmless snack for burglars?

Withdrawal specialists (wordplay)

Succumbing to pressure after secure, criminal occupation

Protecting

Safekeeping

Salability

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

Spanish males engaged in art of commerce

Selling sand to Arabs for brewer perhaps in foreign police force is all the rage

The trick to selling small drinks to Joe from dispatch

Salesperson

Salinometer

Sallowness

Effecting or designed to effect an improvement; remedial: salutary advice.

Salutatory

""Bringing health; healthy; salutary; beneficial; as, salutiferous air. as, salutiferous air.""

Sanctimony

SANCTION to authorize

Graffiti removers

Making smooth

Tin containing a beer full of energy and cheer

Of sound mind, ultimately buffered by stout optimism

Sanguinity

Sansculotte

Sansevieria

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

Disease and Illness

Sauerbraten

Savageness

Savoriness

The quality of being scabrous.

Scantiness

Scapegoat

""SCAPEGOAT A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness.""

Scarabaeus

Scaramouche

Scarceness

People who cause fear or fright

Alarmists seeing Germans score in a frenzy

Noun (-tion)

Person incapable of concentration

Person unable to think clearly

One who cannot concentrate

Scattergood

Scattergram

In a scattering manner; dispersedly.

Theatre stage worker

Stage worker

Theatre worker

""The art of representing objects in perspective, especially as applied in the design and painting of theatrical scenery.""

""Of, relating to, or characteristic of scenography: "Contemporary design has a strongly scenographic appeal, as if modern rooms were meant to be stage sets" (Los Angeles Times).""

SCHEMATIZE To form a scheme or schemes.

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

Schismatize

Schistosome

Schizogony

English word

Shmaltzy

Schnorkel

Comrade in the class struggle (wordplay)

Classmate that's in the same swimming group

They facilitate learning

The classroom (anagram)

Teacher of fish (wordplay)

Instructor at Eton, say

Schottische

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Schwarmerei

Scintillate

Scintillate

""Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic. Sclerotic.""

Scleroderma

Sclerometer

Scolopendra

Scopolamine

Those holding grudges against others in the game involved with The Count

Gamey officials produce point from The Guardian at school

Contemptuous quality

Men in charge of troops

Men in charge of troops

Quality like that of a worn gramophone record

Film script author

One creating film script

Monitor hack who produced The Script (wordplay)

Drinks for assembly workers (wordplay)

Vodka drinks

Sounds like Philip's orange juice and vodka drinks

Screwiness

One who carves scrimshaw.

Wordsmith in cursive (nonverbal)

Ms may be my baby!

Wordsmith in cursive (nonverbal)

Scrutinizer

Sculptress

Scuppernong

Scurrility

Scurviness

Scuttlebutt

""Pl. scyphistomae (-m ) or scyphistomas A larva of a scyphozoan, consisting of an elongated and deeply constricted polyp that successively splits off minute, free-swimming medusas.""

SEAMLESS without a seam

Seamstress

Sweeping beams

The rich glass contrived for high-powered lamps

The doctrine or policy of secession; the tenets of secession; the tenets of secessionists.

One breaking away from a federation

SECLUDED seclude

""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.""

A hormone or another agent that causes or stimulates secretion.

Secretariat

""SECRETION The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods. as, the secretion of dutiable goods.""

Adherence to religious groupings

To imbue with sectarian feelings; to subject to the control of a sect.

""A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.""

SECULARISE

""SECULARIST One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts and influences which are derived from the present life; also, one who believes that education and other matters of civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a religious element.""

Secularity

Secularizer

""SECULARIZE To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk. as, to secularize a priest or a monk.""

Secureness

SECURITIZE

Sedateness

SEDIMENT to settle in the bottom of a liquid

Femmes fatales

SEDULOUS {diligent=adj}

Seemliness

Division into parts

Segregation

Seigniorage

Seismicity

They record earth-shaking events

""A writing about, or a description of, earthquakes.""

Seismology

An expert at assessing faults (wordplay)

One who studies earthquakes

Earthquake scientist

Seismometer

""Of or pertaining to seismometry, or seismometer; as, seismometric instruments; seismometric measurements. as, seismometric instruments; seismometric measurements.""

Selaginella

""SELECTION The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.""

Selectness

""Containing, or impregnated with, selenium; as, seleniferous pyrites. as, seleniferous pyrites.""

Selenology

""Astronomy the branch of astronomy that studies the physical characteristics of the moon. ; selenologist , ; selenological ,""

Thinking of others first

Habit of thinking of others

It's not in one's own interest to display it

SELFSAME identical

Semantical

Semanticist

Semeiology

ABSTRACT to draw away

Every half year.

ARBOREAL tree-dwelling

Junk mail a trucker might get (wordplay)

Form of estate agent's brochure (wordplay)

Advertising flier at a truck stop (wordplay)

Semiclassic

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

Semicolony

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

One who's moved closer to a win

One in last four of a contest

One of last four left in competition

FINISHED finish

FLEXIBLE able to be bent

Fruits (spelled backward) + Repeat = (wordplay)

Elite stream inappropriate - one is coming in barely able to read and write

LUSTROUS reflecting light evenly and efficiently

Of or pertaining to a semimetal; possessing metallic properties in an inferior degree; resembling metal.

MONASTIC a {monk=n}

MYSTICAL spiritually significant

""Seedbearing; producing seed; pertaining to, or connected with, the formation of semen; as, seminiferous cells or vesicles. as, seminiferous cells or vesicles.""

Seminudity

""Half official; having some official authority or importance; as, a semiofficial statement. as, a semiofficial statement.""

""Same as Semeiography, Semeiology, Semeiological.Semeiography, Semeiology, Semeiological.""

Semiologist

Semiotician

Semioticist

""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.""

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Of value but less than a gemstone

Like some gems

Not like a girl's best friend

Items attached to highway tractors

Warm, as a climate

Semiweekly

Sempervivum

Future duration without end; the relation or state of being sempiternal.

Sempstress

Senatorship

Senectitude

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

""An instrument or apparatus for comparing and grading the sensitiveness of plates, films, etc., as a screen divided into squares of different shades or colors, from which a picture is made on the plate to be tested.""

Photography

Of muscular response to nervous stimuli

Sensual.

Sensuality

""SENSUALIZE To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure. as, sensualized by pleasure.""

Sensuosity

SENSUOUS derived from the senses

Sentinel

Quality of being separable or divisible; divisibility; separableness.

SEPARATE to keep apart

Of or pertaining to separatists; characterizing separatists; schismatical.

Once in seven years.

Septentrion

Sepulcher

Sepulchral

Sequacious

One after the other

In succession, it's Queen badly needing friend

Confiscating band of gold after search in bishop's domain

SEQUESTRATE To sequester.

Sequestrate

Real, physical? Different, in the style of an angel

Sereneness

SERICULTURE The raising of silkworms.

Sericulture

SERIGRAPHER serigraph

Serigraphy

(In blood test) showing no virus present