12-Letter Words Starting with S

STRATEGIZE

Layer of high air around the earth

Ozone layer's locale*

An atmospheric layer

Wimbledon favourite (wordplay)

Sweet, fleshy red fruit

Brewer's art is transforming fruit

Strawflower

Vehicles seen at Bonneville Salt Flats (pl.)

STREAMLINE

Courses about Pale provides illumination

By the way, they're needed to see the cat's eyes

They show the way trees changed, though at first a slight change

Streetscape

Pedestrian way reversed by solicitor

Solicitor on march in Somerset town (wordplay)

Made more robust

Reinforced

Something making less weak

Power changed Rene into a strong supporter

Pathogenic bacteria

Bacteria that can cause scarlet fever, pneumonia etc.

Any of several hemolysins derived from some strains of streptococci.

""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

Stringhalt

Stringpiece

Stripteaser

Stroboscope

Very old fossil in sedimentary rocks

Mineral Sr C O 3; attention, sir (anagram)

STUBBORN to be unyielding

Studentship

STUDIOUS given to study

Stuffiness

Total astonishment and shock

Shocked astonishment

Extreme astonishment

Stupefying

In a marvelous way

Stupidness

Sturdiness

Subbasement

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

""COMPONENT Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.""

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

Plural or third person singular

Under the skin

Just under the skin

Terribly cute, on a bus, American gets under skin

DEBUTANTE

Subdecision

Subdirector

DIVIDABLE Capable of being divided; divisible.

Subeconomy

""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.

""Conversion of the cell walls into cork tissue by development of suberin; -- commonly taking place in exposed tissues, as when a callus forms over a wound. Suberized cell walls are impervious to water.""

SUBINFEUD

Subinterval

IRRIGATED irrigate

Subirrigate

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.

In a manner of speaking, moods imagined or wished

Sublanguage

LICENSING license

Submergence

Submersible

Of greatly reduced size

Subminister

Submissive

Submultiple

OPTIMIZED optimize

Suboptimize

ORDINATED ordinate

They could be under boss at head of institution

Subpotency

Subprocess

""SATELLITE An attendant attached to a prince or other powerful person; hence, an obsequious dependent.""

SATURATED saturate

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

Subsentence

Subsequence

Later on

Afterwards

Consequently, transport returned in an orderly fashion

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.""

Companies controlled by a parent one

Subsistence

Subsociety

SPECIALTY Particularity.

Prove truth of (charge)

Prove to be true

Prove the truth of

Substantive

Substituent

Tending to afford or furnish a substitute; making substitution; capable of being substituted.

Underlying framework

""TEMPERATE Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate. as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.""

Subtenancy

Of the nether world.

Train near Eastburn for The Underground

Underground; secret

""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.""

Subtleness

Subumbrella

URBANISED urbanise

Suburbanise

Suburbanite

URBANIZED urbanize

Suburbanize

Subvariety

Subversive

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

Suddenness

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

Enough clues in fifty puzzles (wordplay)

Tiny scuffle involved restraining one adequately

Adequately

Feminists with staff sure get angry!

Emmeline Pankhurst et al.

Sugarberry

Lusty veggies dancing erotically

Sue's sin misconstrued around table - how fitting is that (wordplay)

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

Sulfonamide

""Any of a group of hypoglycemic drugs, such as tolbutamide, that act on the beta cells of the pancreas to increase the secretion of insulin.""

Sulfuret

Sullenness

Sultriness

""SUMMARIZE To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly.""

Belvedere's type of school diets

Gymnastic Samuel strums then leaps about

Sunscreen

Superabound

Superaltern

Pension off

English word

Superbitch

Superbness

SUPERBOMBER superbomb

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.

Superegoist

SUPERELEVATE

""Eminent in a superior degree; surpassing others in excellence; as, a supereminent divine; the supereminent glory of Christ. as, a supereminent divine; the supereminent glory of Christ.""

English word

""The part of supersymmetry theory that attempts to merge the theory of gravity with the other fundamental forces by postulating the graviton's supersymmetric partner, the gravitino.""

Supergrowth

Superharden

SUPERHEATER An apparatus for superheating steam.

Superheat

Superheavy

""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.""

Superhelix

English word

Major road (US)

Modern means of travel.

Superhuman

Placed on top

Set over? Fantastic, I'm ready for my close-up!

Superimpose

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

Superinduce

Superinfect

Has charge of.

Bosses supply new purse and means

Superlative

Superlawyer

Shops' excellent brand set to be changed

Places for groceries

Food stores

Adjective (-ive)

Supernatant

Supernation

Changing usual partner is weird

Turns up a real oddity - it's uncanny

Psychic upset usual partner

Supernature

(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

Superorgasm

SUPEROVULATE

English word

Superperson

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

Superplayer

""Capable of being superposed, as one figure upon another.""

Superpower

Fabulous insurance payment (wordplay)

Superprofit

Abstract noun (-ity)

SUPERREAL

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