12-Letter Words Starting with S

Spaghettini

SPARKPLUG

Sparseness

Spasticity

Spatiality

Spatterdock

Audio equipment - keep on phrase (anagram)

Park sheep ruined linked to single communications facility

Speakership

Spearfish

Leading (attack)

Taking the lead

Praised Hagen extravagantly for leading attack

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

Speedball

Speedboat

Speediness

Vehicle-velocity indicators

Often-ignored dash displays

Indicators of velocity

Speleology

Potholer - I'll goose-step (anagram)

Footballer in alone, meaning he plumbs the depths

Pigs let loose (anagram) - one who studies caves

Powerful speakers

Sure to fascinate

Fascinating session covering books

Holding one's interest

They have no saving graces

Pl. spermagonia also spermogonia (-n - ) A cup-shaped cavity or receptacle in which the spermatia of certain lichens and fungi are produced.

""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.

SPERMATOZOA

""Pl. spermatozoa (-z ) The mature fertilizing gamete of a male organism, usually consisting of a round or cylindrical nucleated cell, a short neck, and a thin motile tail. Also called sperm cell , zoosperm .""

""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.""

""Pl. spermatozoa (-z ) The mature fertilizing gamete of a male organism, usually consisting of a round or cylindrical nucleated cell, a short neck, and a thin motile tail. Also called sperm cell , zoosperm .""

Spermophile

Spessartine

Spessartite

Sphericity

Spheroidal

Spherometer

Spheroplast

Sphingosine

""An alloy of iron containing approximately 15 percent manganese and small quantities of carbon and silicon, used in the Bessemer process.""

Spiffiness

Spinnerette

Being single could make person do this

SPIRITED spirit

Spiritless

""To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul. as, to spiritualize soul.""

Spirochaete

Spirometry

Spiteful

Petty ill will

The quality of being splendid.

Pl. splenomegalies Enlargement of the spleen.

A spokesman or a spokeswoman. See Usage Note at man .

Bicycle mechanic (wordplay)

Front wheelwright (wordplay)

One speaking for others

Sponginess

Spookiness

Plural or third person singular

Reproduction by spores.

SPORTFUL {playful=adj}

Sportiness

SPORTIVE {playful=adj}

Schenkel, for one

Masters consultant, say

One who knows the score

Newspaper man.

Specialist reporter

One of those in the media talking about the club - the one reporting the fights

SPOTLESS {clean=adj}

Spottiness

English word

Make the beds (wordplay)

""Sprightlier , sprightliest Full of spirit and vitality; lively; brisk.""

Springhouse

Springwater

Spruceness

Spunkiness

SPURIOUS not genuine

Squareness

SQUARISH somewhat square

Squirarchy

Squirrel

Stableness

Establishment.

Stadtholder

Travelling drama teachers (wordplay)

Carriers of strongboxes

Transport for drama teachers

Ryan Giggs let loose in striking fashion

Dog with German entering alone in amazing fashion

New Labour's vampire hunters (wordplay)

Interested parties assume hospital mends girdles

Stallholder

Sturdy valiance

""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

Pl. stapedectomies Surgical removal of the stapes.

Startlement

Stationery

In a statuesque manner; in a way suggestive of a statue; like a statue.

Steadiness

Ninja's speciality

Furtive behaviour

Steamfitter

Steaminess

They make pancakes (wordplay)

Vehicles used for compacting roads

Restore small model vehicles

Steamroll

Steatopygia

Having fat buttocks.

Steatorrhea

Steeliness

Steelmaking

United group

"United" group

Competition for pastors (wordplay)

High Church breaking contract for event

Race with jumps

Workers in high places.

High climbers.

Steerageway

Copier of a dictator's words

One versed in shorthand

Court employee

Shorthander's notes unusually explicit

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

STENOTHERM

Stenotypist

Herbert's post about marital relations

Issue to be brought up on remarriage

Former union issue - awful pest, the guard found

Stepfamily

Stereograph

The art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane; a branch of solid geometry which shows the construction of all solids which are regularly defined.

One of a set of isomers whose molecules have the same atoms bonded to each other but differ in the way these atoms are arranged in space.

Stereology

Combining separate sources of sound

(Of sound) multi-channel

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

Plural or third person singular

""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.""

Stereotyper

Stereotypy

""STEREOTYPE A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with typemetal face, used for printing.""

STERLING British money

""Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages. as, the sternocostal cartilages.""

A tennis tutor (anagram) - sneezing

Sternutator

Stertorous

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.""

Virgin women (wordplay)

Stewardship

Stickhandle

STICKHANDLE

Stickhandle

Stickiness

Small spiny fish

""A sterol, C 29 H 48 O, obtained from soybeans or Calabar beans.""

Stilbestrol

Stinginess

The breeding and raising of livestock.

City traders

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

Barns and corrals (wordplay)

Annual meeting attendees

Merchandise owners on top of warehouses

Stockiness

Stockinette

Stockjobber

Stockkeeper

Stodginess

Tolerate some pain (wordplay)

Reasons for sick days

Results of overeating

Plural or third person singular

Stomatitis

Sharon's tools (wordplay)

Hewing or dressing stone.

Rough notes on army's type of manual labour

STONEWALLER stonewall

Delaying tactics? Nothing new in that!

Consistently blocking deliveries

Nothing new in holding things up or being obstructive

Unfeeling - like Olive (wordplay)

Devoid of feeling for others

Feeling callous? Then destroy a settlement

Stockholders in the warehouse business (wordplay)

Storminess

Storyboard

A pack of liars, rumour has it, working on 1 down

Lying much indulged in by Sheherazade

Narrating tales

Relation finds right time to be stuck in traffic

Upset due to threats, but resolute

Courageous, resolute

Courageous

Strabismus

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

Hair care item

Honesty is his strangest failing

A case for arms limitation (wordplay)

Something that restricts.

No sane person is likely to assume it

Straitness

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.""

Strangulate

Certain commuters.

Travellers with a long-standing grievance

Subwayites.