12-Letter Words Starting with S

Showing a positive reaction to a test on blood serum for a disease; exhibiting seroconversion.

Consisting of serum and pus.

""Activated by or capable of liberating serotonin, especially in transmitting nerve impulses: serotonergic neurons; serotonergic drugs.""

In a serpentine manner.

Servanthood

The shadbush or one of its fruit.

Female minister? She's a fighter

Female in the forces

Wasp

A man who is a member of the armed forces.

Fractions of number in choppers to put on uniform on board

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

Severeness

Sewability

Person in seventh decade

Person in their sixties

Arrived between 1943-1952 for one from the sixties

Sexagesimal

The cardinal number equal to 10 51 .

Sextodecimo

SEXTUPLE to make six times as great

Shabbiness

Shacklebone

Shagginess

Shamefaced

SHAMEFUL disgraceful

Abstract noun (-ity)

SHARECROP

Small-time farmer (2 words)

Type of tenant farmer in the USA

Landworker's allotment failure

Old ploughmen as investors in company (wordplay)

Marksman pointed gun (wordplay)

Annie Oakley, for one

Sniper, e.g

Shattering

Adjective for auto safety glass (7,5)

Designed not to break into pieces

Like some safety glass

Sheepberry

Cattlemen's adversaries.

Workers in Ireland's pastures

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

Shy embarrassment

Embarrassment

A woolly state ... or an embarrassed one (wordplay)

One gathering wool

He cuts inside the fold

Fleece cutter

Shellacking

Comparative adjective or agent noun

""SHELLFISH Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs.""

Shelterbelt

Shergottite

Shiftiness

Shinplaster

Vital war workers

Despatch something from site to Noah's family

They make models of Jeanie Johnston perhaps for Harland and Wolff

Crew's excited, gathering in monarch's smashing boat

Shirtdress

SHIRTSLEEVE

(In) jacketless state

Symbol of informality.

Being in these one has no jacket on

Shoddiness

Cheated (by cashier?)

Done - with spirit transformed!

Didn't get full return for your money

SHORTCHANGE

Does alteration in pants

Heedless of the future.

Like the grasshopper of fable

Limited in one's outlook

Puts hats on display (wordplay)

Display with seals clapping should follow these

Rain and snow all summer at Lords? With such like, one couldn't go on!

Shrewdness

SHREWISH ill-tempered

Shrievalty

Shrillness

How to get broad (wordplay)

Prepare to deal and get on with the game

Cruise-ship pastime

Shuttlecock

Sickliness

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

Importance; meaning

Importance, meaning

Notice I intended to limit chapter's importance

Silentness

""SILHOUETTE A representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.""

""SILHOUETTE A representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.""

Sillimanite

Silverfish

Silverpoint

Some metalworkers

See Sylviculture. Sylviculture.

Parallels with IRA missile, it is broadcast

Resemblances is up to militaries on manoeuvres

It's much the same for one getting draws from matches

A herb no longer tended? That's foolish

Type of interest objected to, being foolish

Simpleness

Simplicity

The quality or state of being simultaneous; simultaneousness.

Happening at the same time

Done at the same time

Occurring at same time

Sinfonietta

Sinfulness

Singleness

Singlestick

SINGULARIZE To make singular or single; to distinguish.

Singularize

SINISTER portending evil

One of the Siphonophora.

""Botany A type of stele in which the vascular cylinder surrounds a pith, as in the stem of the sunflower.""

A berserk toad (anagram)

Someone on a short plank with wheels

Ray the lodger's a sportsman

SKELETONISE

Skeletonise

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

""Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the appleleaf skeletonizer. as, the appleleaf skeletonizer.""

Skeletonize

SKILLESS without skill

""SKILLFUL having skill, also SKILFUL, SKILLY""

Skimpiness

Skinniness

SKITTISH easily frightened

Underhand behaviour (mainly US)

Underhand trickery

Shooting up, in a way

Fast-rising TV company playing loud music, and French being gripped

In a defamatory way

Slanginess

""Slaphappier , slaphappiest Slang Dazed, silly, or incoherent from or as if from blows to the head; punch-drunk.""

SLAUGHTERER One who slaughters.

Slaughter

Destructive; murderous.

Slaveholder

Holding persons in slavery.

Slavocracy

Sleaziness

Unsuitable nutcracker (wordplay)

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

Big hitter trimmed hedge in prison

Sleepiness

Noctambulous types

They go out for a stroll at night with dozy types just out of bed

Somnambulance

Somnambulation.

Somnambulism

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.""

Slightness

Slinkiness

The quality of being slippery.

Slipstream

Sloganeer

Sloppiness

Inactivity

Condition of tramp steamer carrying very much like new product ranges

SLUGGARD a habitually lazy person

SLUGGISH slow-moving

Slushiness

SLUTTISH {slovenly=adj}

A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches. Breeches.

Landowners in arrangement to sell lord hams

Smarminess

Smithsonite

Smoothness

Smudginess

Smuttiness

English word

Broken or projecting gnasher

Snappiness

SNAPPISH tending to behave in an impatient or irritable manner

Snapshooter

Sneakiness

Snickersnee

Sniffiness

SNIFFISH {haughty=adj}

Sniperscope

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

""Slang One, especially a politician, who is guided by personal advantage rather than by consistent, respectable principles.""

Snootiness

Snottiness

Sportsmen currently accommodated between son and lodgers

Snowmobiler

Snubbiness

The quality of being sociable.

Sociologese

Sociometry

Sockdolager

Sockdologer

Soddenness

Softheaded

Soldiership

Solemnify

Solemnness

Solidarity

SOLILOQUISE

Soliloquise

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

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

Does a stage routine.

Isolation (of a hermit?)

Solubility

Somatology

Somatomedin

""The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamell\'91 into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchopleure. Splanchopleure.""

Somberness

Flipped

Somerset

To walk when <?/sleep.

Tending to produce sleep; hypnotic.

Prima donnas perhaps from Grammar School restrained by child locks

Boy to secure sort of genre I recognized as producing short poems

Child to secure sort of genre I recognized as producing short poems

Sonography

SONOROUS characterized by a full and loud sound

SOOTHING the act of soothing

An experienced and knowledgeable person

Who's disported at posh cities (wordplay)

Worldly-wise type making epic that is so disorganised

Causing sleep; somniferous; soporific.

Sordidness

SOULLESS without a soul

Soundproof

Kent is in this part of UK

In the bottom right corner of the country

""SOUTHEASTER A storm, strong wind, or gale coming from the southeast.""

Farthest south.

SOUTHERN a person living in the south

A shrub for the huntress

Call for silence around exit to cowboy film set in Kerry direction

""SOUTHWESTER A storm, gale, or strong wind from the southwest.""

Spaceflight

SPACEWALKER spacewalk

Going outside an orbiting craft

SPACIOUS ample in extent